Social Science Research Council

In addition to the esteemed members of the Special Advisory Council and the Steering Committee, the following individuals participated in the First Annual Forum.

Elizabeth Becker is a New York Times trade correspondent who has also covered agriculture, homeland security and defense for the newspaper. Previously she was the senior foreign editor at National Public Radio and began her career as the Cambodia war correspondent for the Washington Post. She is the author of When the War Was Over, a history of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge which won a Robert F. Kennedy award.

Amit Bhaduri is Professor of Distinction in the Department of Economics, Pavia University, Italy, and Visiting (honorary) Professor at the Council of Social Research, New Delhi. Professor Bhaduri has written five books and more than 60 articles in refereed journals in economics, some translated into major European and Asian languages, and has taught in more than a dozen universities around the world. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1967.

Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira has served in numerous academic and government positions and has headed three Brazilian ministries. He has served as Finance Minister in 1987, Minister of Federal Administration and Reform of the State in 1995 and as the Minister of Science and Technology in 1999. Since 1999 he is fully dedicated to academic life. He is a professor of economics at Getúlio Vargas Foundation and has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris, École d’Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Oxford University, and at the USP’s Institute of Advanced Studies. He writes monthly to Folha de S. Paulo and is a member of the board of administration of the Pão de Açúcar Group and of several non-profit organizations. His books include Crise Économique et Réforme d’Etat au Brésil (2002) and Reforma do Estado para a Cidadania (1998).

Ariel Buira is the Director of the G24 Secretariat. Formerly executive director of the IMF, he is a member of the Board of Governors of the Banco de Mexico, ambassador and member of St. Anthony's College, Oxford. He has written numerous books and papers, among them An Alternative Approach to Financial Crises (1999).

Craig Calhoun is the President of the Social Science Research Council. He was previously at New York University where he was Chair of the Sociology Department and is University Professor of the Social Sciences. Calhoun received his doctorate from Oxford University and taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where he was the founding Director of the University Center for International Studies and served as Dean of the Graduate School. He also taught at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, the École d’Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and the Universities of Asmara, Khartoum, Oslo, and Oxford. Calhoun’s own empirical research has ranged from Britain and France to China and three African countries. His study of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 resulted in the prize winning book, Neither Gods nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China (California, 1994).

Michael E. Conroy is the Program Officer at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund whose work focuses on Global Governance within the Fund’s Democratic Practice program. He also holds a concurrent position as Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Scholar at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Prior to joining the fund and taking the position at Yale, he spent nine years as a Program Officer at the Ford Foundation, working first in Ford’s Mexico City Office and then in the New York headquarters office. Before his time at the Ford Foundation, Dr. Conroy taught Economics and Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin for nearly 25 years. He holds a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Eric Eboh is the Executive Director of African Institute for Applied Economics, Enugu, Nigeria and a Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He received his training at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His research interests include: agricultural policy, rural institutions, agribusiness and resource economics. He has published in local and international journals and has authored and co-edited many books including Rural Development in Nigeria: Concepts, Processes and Prospects. He is a member of the Nigerian Association of Agricultural Economists.

Diane Elson teaches at the University of Essex, UK. She is also a Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, where she directs a new programme on gender and macroeconomics. She is a coordinator of the International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics, which has produced two special issues of World Development on these themes. She has been an Advisor to UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women) and to the Human Development Report. She is currently working on fiscal policy and women’s rights.

Gerald Epstein is Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research areas include international capital flows, monetary policy, and the political economy of macroeconomic policy. He is the editor most recently of Financialization and the World Economy and Capital Flight and Capital Controls in Developing Countries; both published by Edward Elgar Press, forthcoming.

Norman Girvan is Former Secretary General of the Association of Caribbean States and is presently a Professorial Research Fellow, University of the West Indies Institute of International Relations, St Augustine Campus. He received a Doctorate from the London School of Economics and is the author of many books, monographs and articles on development problems in Jamaica, the Caribbean and the developing world. Previously, he was Director of Planning in the Government of Jamaica and a Senior Officer at the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations, and has lectured widely throughout North and South America, Europe and Africa. He is the recipient of the national award of Commander of Distinction (C.D.) from the Government of Jamaica, the UWI Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence, and the Institute of Jamaica’s Centenary Medal for Contribution to Social Science.

Duncan Green is a Senior Policy Advisor on trade and development at the Department for International Development (DFID), UK, where his work covers agricultural and non-agricultural trade in goods. Before joining DFID he served as a policy analyst on trade and globalization at CAFOD, the Catholic aid agency for England and Wales; the head of research and engagement at the Just Pensions project on socially responsible investments; and as an advisory board member of the Globalisation and Poverty Programme. He is the author of several papers and books including Silent Revolution: The Rise and Crisis of Market Economics in Latin America (2003) and Faces of Latin America (1997).

Gerry Helleiner is Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Research Fellow at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. He is the author or editor of many books on aspects of trade, finance and development; his most recent (edited) book is Capital Account Regimes and the Developing Countries. Professor Helleiner was formerly the Research Director of the Group of 24 and has been a consultant to a wide range of governments and international institutions, including UNICEF, UNDP, UNCTAD, World Bank, and the IMF. He is a former chairman of the Boards of the North-South Institute and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); a former member of the Board of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the UN Committee on Development Planning (CDP); and is on the Executive Board of the African Capacity-Building Foundation (ACBF) in Harare. He is currently chairman of the Board of International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty (ILEAP).

Scott Jerbi is the coordinator of the Ethical Globalization Initiative (EGI). Before joining EGI, Jerbi served as a Human Rights Officer in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and has been a member of the Secretariat for the International Council on Human Rights Policy since September 2002.

Robert Kapp is Of Counsel to the Washington, D.C. law firm of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. where his practice is primarily in the not-for-profit sector. He is also Co-Founder and Co-President of the International Senior Lawyers’ Project and Senior Advisor to the Ethical Globalization Initiative. Mr. Kapp has served as Chair of each of the following individual rights organizations: Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs; American Civil Liberties Union of the National Capitol Area; and Global Rights (formerly the International Human Rights Law Group) and has participated in international election observer missions in Namibia and South Africa.

Joanna Kerr is the Executive Director of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID). Before coming to AWID, she served as Senior Researcher at The North-South Institute in Ottawa where she managed its gender program and started the Gender and Economic Reforms in Africa Program. Ms. Kerr holds an MA in Gender and Development from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex and her interests include: gender dimensions of economic reform; trade and investment; women's human rights; and women's employment issues. Her publications include Demanding Dignity: Women Confronting Economic Reforms in Africa (2000) co-edited with Dzodzi Tsikata and The Gender Dimensions of Economic Reforms in Africa, editor with Lynn Brown (1997).

Aileen Kwa is a consultant with UNDP on trade issues. She has worked with developing country governments and civil society groups on WTO issues since 1996.

Thea Lee is the Chief International Economist of the AFL-CIO, where she oversees research on international trade and investment policy. Previously, she worked as an international trade economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. and as an editor at Dollars & Sense magazine in Boston. She received a Masters degree in economics from the University of Michigan. Ms. Lee is co-author of A Field Guide to the Global Economy, recently published by the New Press. Her research projects include reports on the North American Free Trade Agreement and on the impact of international trade on the domestic steel and textile industries. She has testified before several committees of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate on various trade topics and has made numerous media appearances.

Mark Levinson is the Chief Economist at UNITE HERE, a union of 450,000 apparel, textile, laundry, distribution, hotel and gaming workers. Mr. Levinson received his Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research. Mr. Levinson previously worked as an economist at the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). His writings on trade policy, labor rights, and the global economy have been published in the New York Times, The Nation, The American Prospect, Dissent (where is also an editor), New Labor Forum and Boston Review. In 2002-2003 Mr. Levinson was a Revson Fellow at Columbia University.

Kamal Malhotra is currently the Senior Adviser on Inclusive Globalisation at the UNDP where he heads the Bureau of Development Policy’s trade policy work and has overall responsibility for UNDP’s policy work on the global dimensions of debt, capital flows and development finance. He is currently leading a UNDP Trade and Sustainable Human Development project and was the lead author and coordinator of the book Making Global Trade Work for People (January 2003). Some of Mr. Malhotra’s previous positions include Co-Founder and Co-Director of Focus on the Global South, Director of the Overseas and Aboriginal Program of Community Aid Abroad (OXFAM Australia) and Director of International Extension, International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Philippines. He has published over 70 papers and articles on development policy issues and the multilateral system and is the co-author, co-editor or a major contributor to a number of recent books, including Democratizing Global Governance (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002) and Global Finance: New Thinking on Regulating Speculative Capital Markets (Zed Press, 2000).

John R. (Rick) MacArthur is the president and publisher of Harper's Magazine and an award-winning journalist and author. He writes a monthly column for the Providence Journal and for Canada's national newspaper, the Globe & Mail. Mr. MacArthur's first book, Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War, was a finalist for the 1993 Mencken Award for books and won the Illinois ACLU's 1992 Harry Kalven Freedom of Expression award. His critically acclaimed follow-up, The Selling of “Free Trade”: NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of Democracy, published in the spring of 2000, was called “an immensely pleasurable read.” by the Chicago Tribune and "illuminating" by the San Francisco Chronicle. A tireless advocate for international human rights, Mr. MacArthur founded and serves on the board of directors of the Death Penalty Information Center and the MacArthur Justice Center.

Manuel F. (Butch) Montes is Program Officer for International Economic Policy for the Ford Foundation in New York where he manages a grant making program on globalization and development. He was formerly Coordinator of Economics Studies and Senior Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii; Co-Director of the “Short-Term Capital Flows and Balance of Payments Crises” project for the United Nations University/World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER) and visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. He obtained his doctorate in economics at Stanford University. Dr. Montes held the Central Bank Money and Banking Chair at the University of the Philippines and has written on balance of payments crises and development policy (the Philippines, Viet Nam, Lao PDR, Thailand and Malaysia). His most recent books are Poverty, Income Distribution and Well-Being in Asia During the Transition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, with Aiguo Lu) and Short-Term Capital Flows and Balance of Payments Crises (London: Oxford University Press, 2001, with Stephany Griffith-Jones and Anwar Nasution).

Seema Mustafa is the Resident Editor of the Indian English language daily, the Asian Age. She has been a journalist for more than twenty-five year, and writes extensively on domestic and international politics. She has covered most of the general elections in India, communal riots and conflicts in the border states and issues related to the Prime Minister, Parliament and government policies. Internationally she has covered the Beirut war in 1982, Iraq just before the invasion, and writes more specifically on South Asia and Pakistan.

Raymond Offenheiser has served as President of Oxfam America since 1995. Before joining Oxfam, Mr. Offenheiser served as a Ford Foundation representative in Bangladesh and, prior to that, in the Andean and Southern Cone regions of South America. He has directed programs for the Inter-American Foundation in both Brazil and Colombia and worked for the Save the Children Federation in Mexico. He is currently a board member of Oxfam International and InterAction and serves on a number of advisory boards including the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, the World Economic Forum, the Aspen Institute and the Asia Society. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

William Pfaff has been a columnist for The International Herald Tribune since 1978. He has recently begun a series of long commentaries for The Observer in London, published monthly. He is the author of a number of books on American foreign relations and contemporary history, including two appearing in 2004: Fear, Anger and Failure, (Algora publishers, New York) an account of the Bush administration’s “war on terror,” and The Bullet’s Song, (Simon & Schuster, New York), a discussion of 20th century political romanticism, utopianism and violence. In the 1950s, Mr. Pfaff was an executive of the political warfare organization, The Free Europe Committee and from 1971 to 1978 he was Deputy Director of the Hudson Institute’s European affiliate, Hudson Research Europe. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council.

Olga Ponizova is Executive Director of the Eco-Accord Center for Environment and Sustainable Development and a Fellow of the Leadership on Environment and Sustainable Development (LEAD) international program. Her current interests include sustainable development for economies in transition, trade and sustainable development, stainable consumption and production, and public participation in environmental decision making. She seeks to strengthen stakeholder cooperation in environmental policy making, economic and social development and actively participates on the global level with UN ECE and on the regional level with ESCAP. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Moscow State University.

Samir Radwan is the Managing Director of the Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey. Before joining the ERF, he served as Advisor on Development Policies to the Director-General and Counselor on Arab Countries at the ILO and as Director of the Development and Technical Cooperation and the Development Policies Departments. As a member of the Bruntland Commission's panel on “Food, Security, Agriculture, Forestry and Environment,” Dr. Radwan has led and participated in several policy advisory missions on employment to developing and transition economies and has acted as a consultant to numerous international organizations, including the UNDP, World Bank, FAO, and OECD. Dr. Radwan is a former lecturer at Cairo and Oxford Universities and has published extensively on human resource development, rural development, industrialization, Africa, Arab economies and labor markets.

Marjatta Rasi was elected President of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC) in 2004 and is the first woman to hold this post. She previously served as the Vice President of ECOSOC and has served as the Permanent Representative of Finland to the United Nations since 1998. She is a Member of the Board of the International Peace Academy.

Robert Rowthorn is Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College. He is the author of numerous books and articles; some of his recent works include, “Biodiversity and the Discount Rate,” International Economic Review (forthcoming with Brown, G.) and “Unemployment, Wage Bargaining and Capital-Labour Substitution,” Cambridge Journal of Economics, July 1999. His research interests include unemployment and inequality, economic growth and the economics of the family.

Alexander Segovia is currently the research director of a three-year project on “The Transformation of Central American Economies and Societies in the Early XXI Century: Toward Comprehensive Strategies for Confronting Regional Changes.” He received his PhD in Economics from London University. Mr. Segovia formerly served first as an economic analyst and later as the Director of the Socioeconomic Division of the United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala (MINUGUA). He was also a member of the investigation team of a BID-CEPAL-PNUD project, which studied Poverty and Macroeconomic Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the Liberalization of the Balance of Payments and its Effects on Distribution, Poverty and Growth. His most recent publications include Transformación Estructural y Reforma Económica en El Salvador (2003) and Modernización Empresarial en Guatemala: ¿Cambio Real o Nuevo Discurso? (2004).

S.P. Shukla was formerly India's Ambassador to GATT and Secretary in the Commerce and Finance Ministries of the Union Government. Mr. Shukla also serves as Convenor of the Indian People's Campaign against WTO.

Frances Stewart is Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) and Fellow of Somerville College at the University of Oxford. She was director of the International Development Centre, Queen Elizabeth House from 1993-2003. She is a development economist whose books include Adjustment with a Human Face (with GA Cornia and R Jolly, OUP, 1987), and War and Underdevelopment: the Economic and Social Consequences of Conflict, (with Valpy Fitzgerald and others, OUP 2000). She is a Board member and Vice-Chairman of the International Food Policy Research Institute, and an Overseer of the Thomas Watson Institute, Brown University. She has been a major consultant to the UNDP on the Human Development Report from its inception. Her chief research interests at present are the nature and causes of Human Development and poverty, and interactions between inequality, ethnicity and human security.

Jomo K. S. is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and Chair of the Executive Committee of International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs). Until August 2004, he was Professor in the Applied Economics Department, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Over the years, Jomo has taught at Science University of Malaysia, Harvard, Yale, National University of Malaysia, University of Malaya, and Cornell. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University (1987-8; 1991-2). He has authored over 35 monographs, edited over 50 books and translated 11 volumes besides writing many academic papers and articles for the media; in addition, he is on the editorial boards of several learned journals. Some of his most recent book publications include Malaysia’s Political Economy (with E. T. Gomez), Tigers in Trouble, Rents, Rent-Seeking and Economic Development: Theory and the Asian Evidence (with Mushtaq Khan), and Malaysian Eclipse: Economic Crisis and Recovery, and Globalization Versus Development: Heterodox Perspectives.

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz is the Founder and Executive Director of Tebtebba Foundation (Indigenous Peoples’ International Center for Policy Research and Education). An indigenous activist from the Cordillera region in the Philippines, Ms. Tauli-Corpuz founded and managed various NGOs involved in social awareness raising, the promotion of indigenous peoples' and women's community organization and research and development work. She is an Expert for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the chairperson-rapporteur of the Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations. She is also the indigenous and gender adviser of the Third World Network.

Lance Taylor is the Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development and Director of the Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School University. Prior to coming to the New School, he was a professor in the economics departments at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, the Universidade da Brasilia, Delhi University, and the Stockholm School of Economics. He has been a visiting scholar or policy advisor in over 25 countries. Taylor has published widely in the areas of macroeconomics, development economics, and economic theory. His recent books include Varieties of Stabilization Experience (Clarendon Press, 1988); Income Distribution, Inflation, and Growth: Lectures on Structuralist Macroeconomic Theory, (MIT Press, 1991); The Rocky Road to Reform: Adjustment, Income Distribution, and Growth in the Developing World, (MIT Press, 1993).

Karen Tramontano is the Founder and President of the Global Fairness Initiative, which works to promote change in existing trade and development models. Tramontano served from 1997 to 2000 as Assistant to President Clinton on issues of labor, international trade and development, and various other foreign and domestic issues. She has also served as Chief of Staff to John Sweeney at SEIU and to Washington DC Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly. Ms. Tramontano is a Senior Advisor to the International Labor Organization’s Director General and is Managing Director of Dutko Global Advisors.

Rolph van der Hoeven of the ILO is Manager of the Technical Secretariat of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization. He holds a Ph.D. in development economics from the Free University and a MSc in econometrics from the Municipal University, both in Amsterdam. Previous positions include Chief of the Macroeconomic and Development Policy Group at the ILO, Chief Economist of UNICEF, Senior Economist at ILO’s World Employment Programme in Geneva and member of ILO’s Employment Teams in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Lusaka, Zambia. Mr. van der Hoeven also teaches at the Centre for Development Planning at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and serves on a number of advisory boards of international institutions and journals. His work is mainly concentrated on issues of employment, inequality and economic reform, and focusing inter alia on problems related to basic needs, structural adjustment and poverty alleviation. His latest books (co-authored with Tony Shorrocks) include Perspectives on Growth and Poverty (UNU Press, 2003) and Growth, Inequality, and Poverty - Prospects for Pro-poor Economic Development (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Please also see the list of participating non-governmental and civil society organizations.