Social Science Research Council

 
Co-chairs:

Deepak Nayyar

Dr. Nayyar currently serves as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi. He is a distinguished economist and policy practitioner, having taught at the University of Oxford, University of Sussex, the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He also lectured at the University of Paris and Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro. He served as Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India and was Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance. The author of numerous books and articles on international development, Professor Nayyar is Chairman of the Board of Governors of the World Institute for Development Economics Research, and a Member of the Advisory Council for the International Development Centre at the University of Oxford.

Ha-Joon Chang

Dr. Chang currently serves as the assistant Director of Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, as well as the Course Director of the Cambridge Advanced Program on Rethinking Development Economics (CAPORDE). Dr. Chang has worked as a consultant for numerous international organizations, including various UN agencies (UNCTAD, WIDER, UNDP, UNRISD, and UNIDO), the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. Among his publications are Kicking Away the Ladder - Development Strategy in Historical perspective and The Political Economy of Industrial Policy. He has also edited a number of volumes and published numerous articles on a wide range of issues, including: theories of the state, market, and institutions; the East Asian financial crisis; the transition economies.


Other Steering Committee members:

Nilufer Cagatay

Nilufer Cagatay is an Associate Professor of Economics and a faculty member of the Middle East Studies and Women's Studies Programs at the University of Utah. Her research has focused on gender and development; international trade theories; and on engendering macroeconomics and international trade theories and policies. In 1994, with Diane Elson and Caren Grown, she founded the International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics (GEM-IWG). She is the co-editor of the November 1995 special issue of World Development on Gender, Adjustment and Macroeconomics and the July 2000 special issue of World Development on Growth, Trade, Finance and Gender Inequalities. Between 1997 -2000 she worked as Economic Advisor at UNDP's Social Development and Poverty Elimination Division in New York.

Eric Hershberg

Dr. Hershberg has been a Program Director at the Social Science Research Council since 1990, and is an Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where he is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies. Previously he was Assistant Professor of Political Science at Southern Illinois University, and has also taught at New York University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he received his Ph.D. in 1989. He has served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the North American Congress on Latin America since 1999, and has for the past decade served as a consultant to a variety of academic and activist institutions concerned with social science and international affairs.

Martin Khor

Dr. Khor is the Director of the Third World Network (TWN) and has led TWN since its inception in 1984. He was instrumental in forming the international network of groups and individuals that is the cornerstone of TWN. A former economist and university lecturer in Malaysia, Khor has written extensively on matters relating to trade, development, north-south relations, the international financial architecture, the environment and ecology, agriculture, intellectual property rights and threats to biodiversity and indigenous knowledge. Among his most recent publications are: Globalization and the South: Some Critical Issues, The WTO, the Post-Doha Agenda and the Future of the Trade System, and Intellectual Property Rights, TRIPS and Biodiversity.

Cecilia Lopez Montaño

Currently the President and Founder of the Fundación Agenda Colombia based in Bogotá, Dr. Lopez has a long and extensive career in public service, having served under various administrations in a number of capacities, including as Minister of the Environment, Minister of Agriculture, and as Ambassador to Holland. An economist by training, Dr. Lopez has also worked as a consultant for a number of international development organizations, including UNICEF, the UNDP, and ECLAC/CEPAL. She has written extensively on a broad range of issues, including macroeconomics, gender, rural and social development policy-making. Dr. Lopez is also a founding member of the Iniciativa Feminista Cartagena, a Feminist Economics Initiative aimed at broadly redefining the parameters of Latin America's economic development policy debate from a feminist perspective.

Jerry Maldonado

Jerry Maldonado is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. Prior to joining CCEIA, Jerry was a consultant at the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service Unit where he spearheaded a strategic planning exercise aimed at enhancing UN-NGLS’s strategic programming in the area of economic development, international cooperation and civil society engagement. Prior to joining the UN he was project director for the International Economic Policy Working Group where he conceptualized, designed, managed and implemented a one year strategic planning initiative aimed at facilitating linkages between scholars, activists, and practitioners. Before launching this project, Jerry was the program associate for the international economic policy portfolio at the Ford Foundation. Jerry received his Masters degree in International Affairs from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, and his Bachelors degree from Brown in international relations and Latin American studies.

Mark Weisbrot

Dr. Weisbrot currently serves as the Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan, with specialization in international economics and political economy. He was a consultant to the government of Haiti in 1995-6. He is co-author, with Dean Baker, of "The Scorecard on Globalization: Twenty Years of Diminished Progress" and Social Security: The Phony Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2000). He writes a weekly column on economic and policy issues that is distributed to over 400 newspapers by Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services. His opinion pieces have appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and the Chicago Tribune, among others. He has appeared on CNN, ABC World News Tonight, C-SPAN Washington Journal, Fox News, and many other national and local television and radio programs.

Mariama Williams

Mariama Williams is an international economics consultant and an Adjunct Associate at the Center of Concern, Washington, D.C. She is also the Research Adviser for the International Gender and Trade Network. Williams is a member of Development Alternative with Women for a New Era (DAWN) and Member of the Board of the Association for Women's Rights and Development (AWID) and a Director of the Institute for Law and Economics (Kingston, Jamaica). Williams has been an assistant professor in the Social Sciences Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York and the Coordinator of the Jamaica Human Development Report, the United Nations Development Program and the Government of Jamaica. She was also a member of the International Advisory Committee of the "Progress of the World's Women" - A Biennial Report, the United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM). More recently Williams has been a resource person to a number of governmental and inter-governmental forums. Williams is a consultant on gender and trade to the Commonwealth Secretariat, London, and a member of the Gender, Globalization, and Democratization Scientific Research Committee of the International Social Science council and the International Working Group on Engendering Macroeconomics and International Trade.