Reshaping Globalization: Multilateral Dialogues and New Policy Initiatives: About the lecturers

Debi Barker is the co-director at the International Forum on Globalization (IFG). She co-authored Invisible Government-The World Trade Organization: Global Government For The New Millennium with Jerry Mander and an upcoming publication: Does Globalization Help the Poor? She has edited several IFG publications including Blue Gold: The Global Water Crisis and the Commodification of the World's Water Supply and Views From the South. She began working on globalization issues as an assistant for The Case Against the Global Economy by Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith. She currently serves on the boards of the Center for Technology Assessment and the Sustainable Cotton Project. Debi also co-chairs the IFG's International Forum on Food and Agriculture with Dr. Vandana Shiva of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology.

Walden Bello, Professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the Philippines; executive director of Focus on the Global South, a research, analysis, and advocacy program of the Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute; and national chairman of Akbayan!, the Citizens Action Party, of the Philippines; author of 12 books and numerous articles in international periodicals, including Future in the Balance (Oakland:  Food First, 2001); recipient of Korea's Suh Sang Don Prize for Global Justice work for 2000 and the Denver Peace and Justice Prize for 2000.

Shaun Breslin, Reader in Politics, Department of Politics and International Studies/ Principal Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick. Honorary Professor of Political Science at Renmin University in Beijing. Co- editor of The Pacific Review. During 2000, special advisor to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the UK House of Commons. Born Derby, UK (29/2/64—UK/Irish Citizen). BA (first class) Politics and East Asian Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1986. PhD in Chinese Politics, 1994. Previous appointments as lecturer in Chinese Politics in the Department of Government, University of Manchester (part-time, 1987-8) and the Department of Politics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1987-97). Director of the Newcastle East Asia Centre (1996-7). Visiting Professor in the Department of Politics, University of Stellenbosch, RSA, 1998. Author of Relations Between the United Kingdom and China (Under the Name of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, House of Commons London: HMSO, November 2000); Mao (Adison Wesley Longman, 2000 – first edition 1998); China in the 1980s: Centre-Province Relations in a Reforming Socialist State (Macmillan, 1996) and with Rod Hague and Martin Harrop, Comparative Government and Politics: An Introduction (Fourth Edition, Macmillan: 1998). Co-Editor of two volumes on contemporary regionalism to be published in 2001 and 2002. Other Publications in the last five years include: "Regionalism in Comparative Perspective" with Richard Higgott in New Political Economy 2000, "Wachstum auf Kosten der Entwicklung? Kritische Bestandsaufnahme des Exportorientierten Wachstums in China (Growth at the Expense of Development? Critical Reflections of Export Oriented Growth in China" in Prokla 2000, "Decentralisation, Globalisation and China’s Partial Re-engagement with the Global Economy" in New Political Economy 2000, ‘The Politics of Chinese Trade and the Asian Financial Crises: Questioning the Wisdom of Export Led Growth’ Third World Quarterly 1999; "China: Geopolitics and the Political Economy of Hesitant Integration" in Richard Stubbs and Geoffrey Underhill (eds) Political Economy And The Changing Global Order (Oxford University Press, 1999); "Made in China: La Crescita del Commercio Cinese" in Marta Dassu (ed) Oriente in Rosso: La Cina e la Crisi Asiatica (Guerini, 1999); "China: The Challenge of Reform, Region-Building and Globalisation" in Grugel, J. and Hout, W. (eds) Regionalism Across the North-South Divide (London: Routledge, 1998); ‘Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Marketisation, Globalisation and the State Owned Sector in the PRChina’ Japon in Extenso 1998; "quanqiu beijing xia zhongguode huanjing weiji" in Song Xinning and Zhang Xiaojin (eds) Zouxiang Ershiyi Shiji de Zhongguo yu Ouzhou (Hong Kong Social Science Publishers, 1997); ‘The China Challenge? Environment, Development and National Security’ Security Dialogue, 1997; "China’s Integration into the Regional Economy" in Sam Dzever and Jacques Jassaud (eds) Perspectives on Economic Integration and Business Strategy in The Asia-Pacific Region (Macmillan, 1997); "China in East Asia: The Process and Implications of Regionalisation" Pacific Review, 1996; ‘China: Developmental State or Dysfunctional Development’ Third World Quarterly, 1996; ‘Sustainable Development in China and the Local Competition State’ Sustainable Development, 1996; ‘China’s Environmental Crisis In a Global Context’ Global Society 1996; "Difangzhuyi de Xingqi: Zhongguo Difangfenquan de Luoji" Zhongguo Shehui Kexue Jikan 1996; ‘The Changing Centre/Provinces Paradigm and the Policy Making Process in Post-Mao China’ in Henri Claude de Bettignies (ed.) Business Transformation in China (International Thomson Business Press, 1996). Research interests include: International Relations and International Political Economy; impact of regionalisation and globalisation in the Asia-Pacific; political economy of China; China’s international economic relations; Chinese international relations; the political economy of regionalism. Teaching experience at postgraduate level; international political economy; international relations in Pacific Asia; political economy of contemporary China; Politics of International Trade; East Asia Since 1945. Teaching experience at undergraduate level; comparative politics; comparative political economy; comparative communist political systems; introduction to politics; Chinese politics; East Asian Political Systems.

László Csaba is a graduate of the Budapest University of Economics with a Ph.D./l984/ and postdoctoral/professorial degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences/l996/. From l976-87 with the Institute for World Economy, from l998-2ooo at KopintDatorg Economic Research, from then IRES, CEU. His visiting professorships include the private Bocconi University/l99l/, the University of Helsinki/l993, the European Viadrina University/Frankfurt/O, l997 and the Free University of Berlin/l998-2000, 5 semesters/. From July l997 also Professor of comparative economics at the BUESPA. Author of l7o articles and chapters in books, 4 monographs and editor of 6 collective volumes, most recently Small Economies` Adjustment to Global Tendencies/with Z. Bara, 2ooo/. On the editorial board of 8 journals including Europe-Asia Studies/UK/, Intereconomics/Germany/, Voprosy Ekonomiki/Russia/ and Acta Oeconomica/Hungary/. Subjects taught: new political economy of development, European integration, economics of transition, comparative economics. For l990-94 and 96-8 V.Pres, l999-2000 President, European Association for Comparative Economic Studies.

Bob Deacon is Director of the Globalism and Social Policy Programme (GASPP), an Anglo-Finnish programme researching the relationship between globalisation and social welfare (http://www.stakes.fi/gaspp). He is editor of the new journal Global Social Policy published by SAGE and author of several books including Global Social Policy: International Organisations and the Future of Welfare. Bob Deacon is also professor of Social Policy at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has advised many international organisations on globalisation and social policy including the UNDP, WHO, ILO, EU, Council of Europe, UNDESA as well as many national governments. His most recent research has been on the social dimension of southern regionalism and on the external dimension of EU social policy.

Daniel Dor teaches at the Dept. of Communication and the Dept. of English, Tel Aviv University. His research interests include, among other topics, the linguistic consequences of globalization, the role of the mass media in the construction of political hegemony, and the cultural-biological evolution of language. His book, "Newspapers under the influence", dealing with the coverage of the current Intifada by the Israeli press, has just come out a few weeks ago in Israel.

Nick Drager is Coordinator, Globalization, Cross-Sectoral Policies and Human Rights in the Department of Health and Development with the World Health Organization. He has over 10 years of experience working worldwide with senior government officials of low-income countries and their development partners. Dr Drager's work has focused on the areas of health policy and strategy development, setting priorities for external assistance, building consensus in support of these priorities and in negotiating aid agreements in bilateral and multilateral settings. His current work focuses on enabling countries to analyse and act on broader determinants of health development, as well as placing public health interests higher on the international development agenda to improve health outcomes for the poor. Dr Drager has a M.D. from McGill University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Hautes Etudes Internationales, University of Geneva.

Dag Ehrenpreis is Senior Advisor on Poverty Reduction at the Development Co-operation Directorate (DAC Secretariat) of the OECD. He was educated at the Stockholm School of Economics (BA 1967) and the University of California, Berkeley (MA 1969) in Development Economics and National Planning. Professional experience: Economic textbook editor 1969-70. Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) 1971-98, 1993-98 as Chief Economist. He spent 7 years in field posts in Africa. From 1999 until the present he is on secondment at the OECD. Main product: The DAC Guidelines on Poverty Reduction, 2001. Recent previous publication: "The Changing Global Framework", lead chapter in Development Cooperation in the 21st Century, Project 2015, Sida 1997.

Yehuda Elkana was born in Yugoslavia in 1934, and after the war and a year in a concentration camp he immigrated to Israel in 1948. He studied physics, mathematics and history of science, also taking courses in biology, and received an MSc degree. In 1968, he completed his doctoral studies with a thesis "On the Emergence of the Energy Concept," published later by Harvard University Press. For one year, he taught at Harvard University. From 1968 he taught in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the Hebrew University and served as its Chairman. He was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1973-74) a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford (1977-78); from 1981 until 1991 he was Director of the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. From 1968 to 1993 he was Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. In 1988-89 he was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and since 1987 a Permanent Fellow there. He is a Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Collegium Budapest, and its Deputy Chairman; Yehuda Elkana is a corresponding member of the International Academy for the History of Science. He is co-founder and editor of Science in Context and author of several books and numerous articles. From 1995 to 1999 he was full Professor for the Philosophy of Science at the ETH Zurich. In April 1997 he became a Member of the Scientific Board of the Collegium Helveticum. In 2001 he was elected to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for a period of four years, i.e. till 2004. Since 1999 Yehuda Elkana is the President and Rector of the Central European University in Budapest. He is married to Dr. Yehudit Elkana and has four children.

Gareth Evans is President and Chief Executive of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG) - positions he assumed in January 2000. He was also appointed, in September 2000, Co-Chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty. In January 2001, he received the Order of Australia. On 30 September 1999, he resigned from the Australian Parliament, after 21 years of service. He was the longest serving parliamentary member of the Australian Labor Party, first entering the Senate in 1978 and transferring to the House of Representatives in 1996. Gareth Evans served as a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor Governments in the posts of Attorney-General (1983-4), Minister for Resources and Energy (1984-7), Minister for Transport and Communications (1987-8) and Foreign Minister (1988-96). He is best known internationally as Foreign Minister for his role in founding APEC in 1989, for developing the UN Peace Plan for Cambodia, for bringing to a conclusion the international Chemical Weapons Convention, for initiating the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, and for his 1993 book on UN Reform, Cooperating for Peace. (Source: http://www.garethevans.dynamite.com.au )

Zsuzsa Ferge (born Kecskeméti) was born in Budapest in 1931. She is an economist, having worked in the field of social statistics, sociology, and social policy. She became professor of Sociology at Eötvös University in Budapest in 1988. She founded the first department of social policy in Hungary in 1989, and taught there until her retirement in 2001. Her main fields of interest have been social structure, social inequalities, poverty, the social impact of the transition. She was visiting professor at French, English, American etc. universities. She is a member of the European Academy and of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and has a honorary degree from Edinburgh University.

Jonathan T. Fried is the Senior Assistant Deputy Minister of Finance and G-7 Deputy for Canada. He is the ranking official of the Government on international financial matters, including the G-7 Finance Ministers’ process, relations with the Bretton Woods institutions, international surveillance, debt and related activities, and trade and development issues. He chairs Finance Deputies in support of Minister Paul Martin’s chairmanship of the G-20, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Export Development Corporation and is Canada’s Finance ministry representative to the Financial Stability Forum. Prior to joining the Department of Finance, Mr. Fried was the Assistant Deputy Minister for Trade, Economic and Environmental Policy at Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, with responsibility for multilateral trade policy and negotiations in the WTO, OECD, the G-7 (as Foreign Affairs Sous-Sherpa) and various regional fora, ongoing implementation and administration of the North American Free Trade Agreement, aid policy and relations with developing countries, the development and administration of import and export controls, and international environmental affairs. He was Canada's chief negotiator on the accession of China to the WTO and Principal Legal Counsel for North American Free Trade Negotiations, with overall responsibility for legal advice on and drafting of the legal text of the NAFTA and the side agreements on labour and on environmental cooperation, including leading negotiations on dispute settlement. Mr. Fried was a member of Canada's negotiating team on the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement as Assistant General Counsel. Mr. Fried has been elected three times by the OAS General Assembly to the Inter-American Juridical Committee, and served as its Vice-Chair from 1994-1996 and as Chairman in 1996. He was Chair of the APEC Experts' Group on Dispute Mediation from its creation in 1994 to 1997, and as Vice-Chair of the OECD Trade Committee from 1995 to 1997. Mr. Fried was formerly Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, and has been an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, Georgetown University Law Center and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. Mr. Fried received his B.A. and LL.B. from the University of Toronto and his LL.M. from Columbia University. He has written and spoken extensively on legal-economic topics.

Denis J. Galligan is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford; Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, University of Oxford; Fellow of Wolfson College; Recurrent Visiting Professor at the Legal Studies Department of the Central European University and Director of Center for Policy Studies, Central European University.

James Garrison is Co-Founder and President of the State of the World Forum and the Gorbachev Foundation/USA. He was also Co-Founder and President of the International Foreign Policy Association (1991-1996) and Diomedes Inc. (1989-1995). From 1985 to 1989 he was Executive Director of the Esalen Institute Soviet-American Exchange Program. Jim has written six books concerning the historical and theological implications of the advent of the nuclear age, and over 20 articles on issues ranging from ecology, economics, international relations, political psychology and theology. His latest work, Civilization and the Transformation of Power, was published by Paraview Press in the Fall of 2000. His degrees include an M.T.S., History of Religion, Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Philosophical Theology, Cambridge University.

Susan George was born in the United States, has lived in France for many years and acquired French citizenship in 1994. She is Associate Director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, a decentralised fellowship of scholars living throughout the world whose work is intended to contribute to social justice; she is also Vice-President of ATTAC France [Association for Taxation of Financial Transaction to Aid Citizens]. Her most recent books are "Remettre l'OMC a sa Place" [in the ATTAC series] and The Lugano Report: On Preserving Capitalism in the 21st Century. Other titles include Faith and Credit: the World Bank's Secular Empire, The Debt Boomerang, Ill Fares the Land, A Fate Worse than Debt and How the Other Half Dies: The Real Reasons for World Hunger. She has written dozens of prefaces, journal and magazine articles, conference and seminar contributions, chapters in edited volumes, etc. Her work has been translated into French [in which she also writes], German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, four Scandinavian languages, Estonian, Japanese, Korean, Bengali, etc. Her academic degrees are in French/Government [B.A.Smith College, USA]; Philosophy [Licence ès Philsophie, Sorbonne] and Political Studies [Doctorate, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, University of Paris]. Her current work concerns 'globalisation' particularly the World Trade Organisation, international financial institutions and North-South relations. She helped to lead the campaign in France to defeat the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and is now engaged in the campaign to democratise the WTO. Her work can be consulted on www.tni.org/george

Padmanabha Gopinath is currently Counsellor to the Director-General of the ILO. Educated at the Universities of Delhi and Oxford, Mr. Gopinath was a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service before joining the ILO in 1970. 
As an international civil servant, he has served in senior executive positions both in the ILO and in the United Nations Secretariat in New York. He was Chief of Cabinet of the Director-General of the ILO, and, subsequently, Director of the Department for International Economic Cooperation at United Nations Headquarters. He was appointed Assistant Director-General of the ILO in 1988. Before assuming his present responsibilities he was Director of the ILO’s International Institute for Labour Studies.

John Gray is Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. Before joining LSE he was a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and Professor of Politics at Oxford University. He has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard, Yale and the Autonomous University of Madrid. His most recent books are False Dawn: the Delusions of Global Capitalism ( Granta Books, 1998) and Two Faces of Liberalism (Polity Press, 2000).

David Hartridge is the Special Advisor to the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO). He began working for the Board of Trade and Department of Trade and Industry in London in 1961, and was posted to the UK Permanent Representation to the GATT (1971-75) and to the European Communities (1979-80). Since joining the GATT in 1980 he has undertaken a variety of roles, first as Chef de Cabinet to the Director-General (1980-85) and subsequently as Director of various divisions of the Secretariat: the Office for Multilateral Trade Negotiations (1985-86); the Group of Negotiations on Goods (1986-93) and the Trade in Services Division (1993-2001). He was Director-in-Charge of the WTO in May-August 1999.

Richard Higgott is Director of the ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick. Previous professorial appointments have been held at the University of Manchester and the Australian National University where he was also Director of the Graduate Programme in Foreign Affairs and Trade. He is the author/editor of some 14 volumes and a 100 or so refereed papers and chapters. Recent Publications include Non State Actors and Authority in the Global System (co-ed, 2000) and The New Political Economy of Globalisation (co-ed, 2 vols. 2000), A Global Polity? with Morten Ougaard will be published in 2002. He is also editor of the quarterly Pacific Review.

James Howard is Director of Employment and International Labour Standards at the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU). His work at the ICFTU covers a range of issues associated with globalisation and international trade, particularly their impact on the observance of international workers rights' standards; policies to favour pro-poor economic development; analysis of the policies of the IMF and the World Bank, particularly the social dimensions of structural adjustment; reform of international financial architecture; and general world economic developments.

Jak Jabes is advisor for governance at the Asian Development Bank. Prior to joining the ADB he worked at the OECD in the SIGMA program as senior counsellor in charge of Public Administration Development Strategies. The SIGMA program worked to improve governance in Central and Eastern Europen countries. While at Sigma he also collaborated closely with the NISPAcee (Network of Schools and Institutes of Public Administration of Central and Eastern Europe) since the inception of the organization. Jak Jabes is currently on leave from the University of Ottawa in Canada where he teaches Organizational Behavior and Change. His reserach on senior officials in Canada undertaken with D. Zussman, culminated in a book called The Vertical Solitude. He is the author of numerous books and articles.

Cho Khong is Chief Political Analyst with the Global Business Environment group, Shell International Limited, in London. He is responsible for advising on political trends in Shell's scenario planning, and has a special interest in the Asia-Pacific region. Cho was a member of the teams which developed the 1995, 1998 and 2001 sets of Global Scenarios and has also done a range of country risk studies for Shell. He has also worked with governments, universities, research institutions and other business companies in Asia, Europe and Africa. Cho Khong was previously Lecturer in Development Studies/International Relations at the University of Bath, Lecturer in International Relations at the National University of Singapore, Senior Economist at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London and Laski Senior Scholar at St. John's College, Cambridge. He received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Singapore, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.

Richard Kole is a senior economist and project manager for the OECD Development Centre, where he has worked since 1999 on globalisation, poverty and inequality in developing countries. He organised a major policy dialogue "Poverty and Income Inequality in Developing Countries: A Policy Dialogue on the Effects of Globalisation" in December 2000 (the papers available on the OECD site) A major focus of his work has been on increasing the voice and participation of stakeholders from developing countries in Development Centre dialogues: the December 2000 dialogue included participation by 50 stakeholders from 20 developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia. His current research focuses on identifying what differentiates winners and losers among developing countries in terms of globalising and achieving pro-poor growth, specifically: (1) what are the political conditions which have permitted some countries to pursue the universal education policies necessary for successful globalisation; and (2) how are foreign investors contributing to human capital development in middle income countries. His most recent papers include: "What’s New About Globalisation: Implications for Income Inequality in Developing Countries" (with Kevin O’Rourke) and "Globalisation and Inequality in South East Asia". Dr. Kohl received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California-Berkeley, where he specialised in International Economic History. He is unmarried and an American citizen.

Ivan Krastev is the Chairman of the Board and Research Director at the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, Bulgaria. He received his MA in Philosophy from the University of Sofia in 1990. His doctoral thesis on "Presidential Constitutional Politics in Eastern Europe" is to be defended. He was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin in 1999-2000; a Woodrow Wilson Policy Fellow at Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington in 1998; and a Fellow at the Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study, where he worked on a project enentitled "The Rise and Influence of Think Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe" in 1997-1998. In 1994-1996 he was a Lecturer at the New Bulgarian University. He is on the board of a number of important academic institutions, including the Centre for Democracy and Reconciliation on the Balkans in Thessalonica, and the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of East Central Europe/ L'Europe du Centre-Est, an academic journal published by Central European University, Budapest and Collegium Budapest. He has led a number of major policy researches in Bulgaria, including the preparation of a Special Report on Human Security in South Eastern Europe, a project commissioned by UNDP in 1999; and a research project enentitled "Enlarged NATO's Mission in the First Decades of the 21st Century', commissioned by NATO and was rewarded with Manfred Woerner Fellowship in 1998.

Catriona Laing is deputy head of the Prime Minister’s Forward Strategy Unit which was established in August 2001. She is responsible for managing the international portfolio and some aspects of domestic policy. Immediately prior to this she spent six months in the Cabinet Office leading a project on resource productivity and renewable energy. The rest of her career has been in international development. Her most recent post in the UK's Department for International Development was on the team responsible for the Government White Paper "Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation work for the Poor".

Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Professor of International Political Economy, International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Lausanne, Switzerland, & Founding Director of the Evian Group. 
Since January 1997 Jean-Pierre Lehmann has been Professor of International Political Economy at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne. Prior to joining IMD, Jean-Pierre Lehmann has had both an academic and a business career which over the years has encompassed activities in virtually all East Asian and Western European countries, as well as North America. More recently he has been engaged in wokring on projects also in Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Egypt and South Africa. In 1995 he founded the Evian Group, which is a coalition for liberal global governance, based on a network of business, government and opinion leaders from Asia Pacific, Europe and America. Jean-Pierre Lehmann was born in 1945, of French nationality, he obtained his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, Washington DC, and his doctorate from Oxford. He is the author of several books, numerous articles and reports on modern East Asian history and the international political economy.

Karin Lissakers held the United States chair on the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund 1993-2001. Former lecturer and director of the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs International Business and Banking Studies program. Senior Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Deputy Director of of the Policy Planning Staff of the United States Department of State. Staff director of the foreign economic policy subcommittee of the United States Senate Committe on Foreign Relations. Research assistant to Nobel Laureate Gunnar Myrdal. Author of Banks, Borrowers and the Establishment on the 1980s debt crisis and articles on foreign economic policy and international financial issues. M.I.A. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Andrew Mack, Professor Mack is currently Visiting Scholar at the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard University. Until January 2001 he was Director of Strategic Planning in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, a post he held since 1998. He was formerly Head of the International Relations Department at the Australian National University (ANU), Director of the ANU’s Peace Research Centre (1985-91) and Senior Research Fellow in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (1984-85). He has held research and teaching positions at LSE, the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, the Richardson Institute for Peace and Conflict Research, UC Berkeley, Irvine and San Diego, the University of Hawaii and the International University of Japan. His pre-academic career included six years in the Royal Air Force (engineer and pilot); two and a half years in Antarctica as meteorologist and Deputy Base Commander, a year as a diamond mining engineer in Sierra Leone and two years with the BBC’s World Service producing the current affairs program ‘The World Today’. He has written or edited some eleven monographs and books and his fifty plus scholarly articles have appeared a wide range of journals including: World Politics, Washington Quarterly, British Journal of International Studies, World Policy, Foreign Policy, Comparative Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Politics, Security Dialogue, Arms Control, Asian Survey, Australian Journal of International Affairs and Pacific Review. He is currently working on a major project to create an annual Human Security Report modeled on the UN’s Human Development Report and is chairing a multi-year International Peace Academy project on Economic Agendas and Civil Wars.

Marcus Miller, Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Warwick. (Previously a professor at Manchester and lecturer at the London School of Economics.) Educated at Oxford (PPE) and Yale University (Ph.D). He is currently Co-Director of the CSGR, University of Warwick (see the "Global Financial Crisis" web page); Research Fellow, CEPR, London; and Visiting Fellow at IIE, Washington. Was advisor to the Treasury Committee of the House of Commons (1981), a Houblon Norman Fellow at the Bank of England (1982) and joint director of International Macroeconomics Programme at CEPR (1986/91). Books edited include Exchange Rate Targets and Currency Bands (with Paul Krugman), CUP (1992) and the Asian Financial Crisis (with P.Agenor et al.), CUP (1999), and recent articles include "Asset Bubbles, Domino Effects and "Lifeboats": Elements of the East Asian Crisis" and "Sovereign Liquidity Crises: the Strategic Case for a Payments Standstill" in January 2000 EJ. Current research interests include an ESRC project on "moral hazard and financial institutions" (see CSGR paper with Lei Zhang); bankruptcy and debt relief; and efficiency wages and unemployment (see CSGR Working Paper 04/98 with John Driffill).

Vira Nanivska, PhD, has been working in field of development since 1978 as a researcher on Japanese transformation in Moscow, and since 1992 in Kyiv on Ukraine’s transition. Educated in Lviv University and Moscow Academy of Sciences, she taught in Moscow State University and worked as Program Development Officer with the World Bank for 5 years. In 1997 she became the Director of International Centre for Policy Studies (ICPS), Ukraine’s first public policy think-tank. Since 1997 the purpose of this position has been, by managing the first policy think tank in Ukraine, to contribute to the establishment of a full-fledged public policy process that comprises policy research, policy dialogue, and public consultations. This is achieved by increasing the know-how of key government officials to facilitate policy choices, formulation, and debate, as well as the awareness of the public-at-large of the benefits of proposed policies. Vira has built substantial experience in designing technical assistance programmes and facilitating communications between international experts and the Government of Ukraine.

Morten Ougaard holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Aarhus. Senior lecturer in international political economy at the Copenhagen Business School's Department of Intercultural Communication and Management of which he is a former director. Adjunct lecturer in international politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Author or co-author of seven books, most recently Understanding the Global Polity, (co-edited with Richard Higgott), forthcoming Routledge 2001, and numerous articles in scholarly journals, among them studies of the nation state and globalization, and global governance issues. Co-editor of the Danish social science journal Grus and on the editorial board of the Danish political science journal Politica. Currently working on the research project "Approaching the Global Polity" which is a theoretical and empirical project on international political institutionalization in a global societal context. The Danish Social Science Research Council supports the project. A member of the Danish Institute of International Affair's expert panel on the United Nations, 1997-1999. Current interests include the rise of private sector self-regulation and business ethics.

Shalini Randeria, currently holding the Max Weber Professorship in Sociology at University of Munich, has taught social anthropology at the Free University in Berlin and was Fellow at the Instititute of Advanced Studies Berlin (1985 and 1999/2000), Chairperson of GAFOSS (German -America Frontiers of Social Sciences) and country coordinator within the MacArthur Foundation@s project on " Reinventing Social Emancipation: Counter-Hegemonic Globalization and Social Movements" (1998-2000). Research interests include socio legal studies, globalization and governance, development policies. Publications include: Globalisierung aus Frauensicht (co-edited with R. Klingebiel, 3nd ed. 2000); Globalisation, Migration and Negotiations of Identities (co-edited with J., Friedman, London 2001); Multiple Modernen (co-editied with U.Luig, M. Fuchs, Frankfurt/M. in print).

Jan Aart Scholte is Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies and Associate of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick. He previously worked at the University of Sussex and the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague). His recent publications include Globalization: A Critical Introduction (Palgrave, 2000), Contesting Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements (co-author) (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and Civil Society and Global Finance (editor) (Routledge, 2002). At present he is coordinating a seven-country project, funded by the Ford Foundation, on civil society and democracy in global economic governance.

Jakob Simonsen (Denmark) is the Deputy Director for the Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (RBEC) of UNDP. Mr. Simonsen has held different substantive and managerial positions practicing development cooperation over the last 20 years working with UNDP.
Mr. Simonsen has served in a variety of positions both in the field and Headquarters. He began his career with UNDP in 1980 where he served in Honduras; subsequently as Programme Officer, UNFPA Latin America Branch in New York (1983 –1986). From 1986 to 1989 he served in Panama followed by the post in Nicaragua from 1989 until 1991. He then served at Headquarters as Deputy Chief, Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean. In 1994 he went to Peru as UNDP Representative until 1997 when he assumed the position of Deputy Regional Director, RBLAC from where he later was reassigned to his current post in RBEC. Prior to joining UNDP, Mr. Simonsen served as Assistant Professor and Researcher at the Institute of Political Science, Arhus University, Denmark. Mr. Simonsen holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science and English form Arhus University in Denmark.

Leslie Sklair is Reader and Director of the Doctoral Programme in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is author of The Transnational Capitalist Class (2001). His Sociology of the Global System (1991; second edition, revised and updated, 1995) has been translated into Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, Chinese and Spanish. A new version of this book will be published by Oxford University Press in 2002 under the title Globalization: Capitalism and its Alternatives.

George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930. He survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary and emigrated to England in 1947, where he graduated from the London School of Economics. While a student at LSE, Mr. Soros became familiar with the work of the philosopher Karl Popper, who had a profound influence on his thinking and later on his philanthropic activities. In 1956 he moved to the United States, where he began to accumulate a large fortune through an international investment fund he founded and managed. Mr. Soros has been active as a philanthropist for more than 30 years. Mr. Soros is President and Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC, a private investment management firm which serves as principal investment advisor to the Quantum Group of Funds, a series of international investment vehicles. In July of 2000 Mr. Soros merged his flagship Quantum Fund with the Quantum Emerging Growth Fund to create a new more conservative investment fund, the Quantum Endowment Fund. The Quantum Fund is generally recognized as the most the successful investment fund, returning an average 31% annually throughout its 32-year history. Beginning in 1979, Mr. Soros has over the years established a network of philanthropic foundations and other organizations that are now active in more than 50 countries throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Guatemala, Haiti, Mongolia, South, Southern and West Africa, and the United States. These foundations are dedicated to building and maintaining the infrastructure and institutions of an open society. In 2000 the Soros foundation network spent $494 million to support projects in education, public health, civil society development, and many other areas. Giving for 2001 and 2002 is expected to remain at a similar level. Mr. Soros is the author of six books. His most recent work, Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism was published by PublicAffair in October 2000. His other books include: The Alchemy of Finance, 1987; Opening the Soviet System, 1990; Underwriting Democracy, 1991; Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve, 1995; The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered, 1998. His articles and essays on politics, society, and economics have appeared in major newspapers and magazines around the world. He is frequent contributor to the Financial Times and The Washington Post, among other publications. Mr. Soros has received honorary degrees from the New School for Social Research, the University of Oxford, the Budapest University of Economics, and Yale University. In 1995, the University of Bologna awarded Mr. Soros its highest honor, the Laurea Honoris Causa, in recognition of his efforts to promote open societies throughout the world.

Diane Stone is Reader in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick and Principal Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation. She teaches in the area of comparative public policy, globalisation and governance. She has also taught at the Australian National University (where she gained her Masters (1989) and PhD. (1993) degrees in Political Science and International Relations), Murdoch University in Western Australia (BA, 1987) and Manchester Metropolitan University. In recent years, she has worked in the World Bank Institute in Washington DC. She was also central to the creation of the Global Development Network (www.gdnet.org) and continues to be involved in its activities. Research and publication has focussed on think tanks and policy advice. Other research interests include the influence of ideas and expertise on policy, the political economy of higher education; the role of non-state actors in domestic, regional and global affairs; conceptual developments in the study of policy networks; and the political process of lesson-drawing and policy transfer.

Sidney Tarrow is Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Sociology at Cornell. He took his PhD in political science at Berkeley with a dissertation on Peasant Communism in Southern Italy (Yale, 1967), and specialized for a number of years on French and Italian politics (Between Center and Peripher: Grassroots Politics in Italy and France, Yale, 1978), before returning to the study of social movements with a study of Italian protest in the 1960s and 1970s (Democracy and Disorder, Oxford, 1989) and the theory and history of contentious politics (Power in Movement, Cambridge, 1994, 1998). He has recently co-authored two books: (with Doug Imig, Contentious Europeans: Protest and Politics in an Emerging Polity, Rowman and Littlefield, 2001, and with Doug McAdam and Charles Tilly, Dynamics of Contention, Cambridge, 2001). He currently works on transnational activism and directs the Cornell Workshop on Transnational Contention.

Carl Tham is Secretary General of the Olof Palme International Center, formerly president of Sida (Swedish Agency for International Assistance), former Cabinet Minister of the Swedish Government. Olof Palme International Center is a foundation within the Swedish Labour Movement

Jan Martin Witte is a Co-Director of the ‘global public policy institute’ and an ERP-Scholar at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. where he completes his Ph.D. in European Studies and Political Economy. Jan Martin holds degrees from the Johns Hopkins University, SAIS (M.A. in International Relations and International Economics) and the University of Potsdam (Germany, Diploma in Political Science). Jan Martin received scholarships from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). For his research with the Global Public Policy Project, he received support from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. Currently, Jan Martin is supported by a European Recovery Program Scholarship, awarded by the 'Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes'. His work experience include consulting assignments at the Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C.), the Corporate Strategy Group of the World Bank (Washington,D.C.) and the Office of Development Studies of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Most recently, Jan Martin worked as a Partnership Policy Officer with the Private Sector Partnership Unit of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS).

Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon. Former President of Mexico (1994-2000), Ernesto Zedillo was born in Mexico City on December 27, 1951. He received his primary, secondary and undergraduate education from Mexican public schools. After graduating from the School of Economics of the National Polytechnic Institute, he went to Yale University and earned a Ph.D. in economics. In 1978 Mr. Zedillo started a decade-long career at Mexico’s Central Bank, where he served as economist, deputy manager of economic research, general director of a trust fund in charge of supporting the solution of the 1980’s private sector’s external debt problem, and deputy director of the bank. During his stay at the Bank of Mexico he published several professional articles in various books and journals. He also taught macroeconomics and international economics at master programs of the Colegio de Mexico and the National Polytechnic Institute. In late 1987, he was appointed undersecretary of the budget at the Mexican Federal Government. In this position, he participated in the design and execution of an economic adjustment program that eventually lead, for the first time in many years, to the stabilization of the Mexican economy. A year later, he became head of the full secretariat. As secretary of economic programming and the budget (1988-1992), he contributed to the successful economic reforms undertook by the Mexican Federal Government during the early 1990’s. He was appointed Secretary of Education in early 1992, with a precise mandate to launch a sweeping reform of the national basic education system. This was achieved after nine months and comprised not only the updating of the national curriculum and school materials, the establishment of special compensatory programs for the education of the poorest students, but also the decentralization of the whole system to state governments. Mr. Zedillo left the Federal Government in late 1993 to become head of the campaign of Mr. Luis Donaldo Colosio, the PRI presidential candidate. He succeeded Mr. Colosio as the PRI presidential candidate after his dramatic and very unfortunate assassination. He was elected President of Mexico on August 21, 1994. He received around 50 per cent of the total votes. More than 78 per cent of the registered voters participated in this election , which was considered both by national and international observers as unprecedented regarding its legality and transparency. Nevertheless, from his very first day in office he called for further and definitive political reforms to achieve full democracy in Mexico. This became an undeniable reality during Mr. Zedillo’s Presidency, thanks above all to the participation of all political parties and many Mexican citizens. Right at the start of his mandate, Mr. Zedillo´s government had to confront a major financial and economic crisis. He did not hesitate to take whatever harsh actions were deemed necessary to overcome the adverse situation. Boldness paid-off. The five year period with the highest GDP growth in recent Mexican history was achieved during 1996-2000. Economic discipline was not pursued at the expense of social justice during the Zedillo Presidency. Every year social programs were allocated an increasing proportion of the Federal Budget until reaching its highest historical share in year 2000. Since leaving office, Mr. Zedillo has undertaken a number of activities. He was the Chairman of the Financing for Development High Level Panel convened by the United Nations Secretary General. The panel included personalities such as former U.S. Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin and former President of the European Commission Jacques Delors. The panel delivered its report last June. He also became a member of the Trilateral Commission and has accepted to be in boards of the Council of Foreign Relations and the Institute for International Economics. Last July he was appointed as a member of a panel of experts which will advise the World Trade Organization on the challenges and opportunities confronting the global trading system. He is now a distinguished visiting fellow at the Centre for Global Governance of the London School of Economics. He is a director of Procter and Gamble and of Union Pacific Corporation and is writing a regular column for Forbes magazine. Former President Zedillo has received Decorations from the Governments of 32 countries, including United Kingdom, Germany, France , Spain, Japan, Brazil and Argentina. He has also received awards from several professional and civic organizations. Last May, Yale University granted him both the Wilbur Cross Medal and a Doctorate in Laws honorary degree, and last September, he received the Democracy and Peace Award from the Institute of the Americas of the University of California at San Diego. Former President Zedillo is married to Nilda Patricia Velasco. They have five children: Ernesto, Emiliano, Carlos, Nilda Patricia and Rodrigo. The Zedillo Velasco family lives in Mexico City.