Social Science Research Council

Jìmí Adésínà is Professor of Sociology at Rhodes University, South Africa. He was educated at the University of Ibadan (Nigeria) and Warwick University (UK). His research and teaching interests are in Social Theory, Labour and Development Studies, Social Policy, and Methodology. He is President of the South African Sociological Association; Interim Secretary-General of the African Sociological Association; Co-Chair of the Social Science Network of South Africa (SSNSA); and Member of the Executive Committee of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). He was recently elected to the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf).

Susanne Anschütz is the Program Director of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the German Research Foundation. After her Abitur in Heidelberg in 1981, she studied General Linguistics, German Language and Literature, African Languages, and Philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg, Munich, Cologne, and Berkeley, U.S.A. She received her Dr.phil. in 1989 from the University of Heidelberg and worked as a research assistant at the Department of General Linguistics, Heidelberg, and at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She joined the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) in 1998 and became a Program Director in 2001. Her scope of responsibility is research in languages and linguistics, religious and area studies. She has teaching experience in general linguistics, practical studies in a library house and a publishing house.

Riccardo Bocco is presently professor of political sociology at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (IUED) in Geneva (Switzerland) and his main research interest is on the role of international aid organizations and the impact of their humanitarian and development programs. After receiving this Ph.D. from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Paris), he has directed the CERMOC, the French social sciences research institute based in Amman (Jordan) between 1995 and 1999, and has taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and at the University of Bologna (Italy). During the 1980's he has researched on issues related to tribalism, development policies and State-building in the Middle East; in the 1990's, his fieldwork has focused on the Palestinian refugees during the Oslo process. Starting from the fall 2000 he has been heading a team (funded by several UN agencies) that has monitored the evolution of the socio-economic conditions of the civilian population in the Occupied Palestinian Territories during the past five years. He is presently heading a joint research project with UNRWA on the Palestinian refugees in the Near East. For this publications, see http://www.unige.ch/iued/new/institut/enseignants/cv_bocco_riccardo.html .

Craig Calhoun has been President of the Social Science Research Council since 1999. He is also University Professor of the Social Sciences at NYU. Under Calhoun's leadership, the SSRC has been reinvigorated as a leader of public social science, research on critical social issues, and support for leading young researchers. He has launched new work on knowledge institutions and innovation, on information technology, on HIV/AIDS and social transformation, and on media, democracy and the public sphere. After receiving his doctorate from Oxford University, Calhoun taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill from 1977 to 1996. He was Dean of the Graduate School and the founding Director of the University Center for International Studies. He has also taught at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and the Universities of Asmara, Khartoum, Oslo, and Oxford.

Glyn Davies is the Director of Policy and Resources and Deputy Chief Executive of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) of the United Kingdom. Glyn has overall responsibility for policy and strategy, including the active development of international research collaboration. He also leads on internal administration and research funding, with a focus on bringing together the ESRC work as a corporate whole. Glyn joined the ESRC as a scientific officer in 1971. He has in the past been responsible for political science, socio-legal studies and educational research, and for the development of ESRC's strategic approach to postgraduate training. He is a graduate in economic history and political science with a background in education before joining the ESRC.

Fiona Devine is Professor and Head of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester. She is a member of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Council and Chair of its International Advisory Panel. In this capacity, she is a member of the Governing Council of the European Science Foundation and member of the Network Board of NORFACE ERA-NET. Her research interests are in comparative social inequalities, work and employment, and politics and participation. She is sole author of three books: Affluent Workers Revisited (Edinburgh University 1992), Social Class in America and Britain (Edinburgh University Press 1997) and Class Practices (Cambridge University Press 2004). She is the author of Sociological Research Methods in Context (Palgrave 1999) with Sue Heath and they are preparing a second edition of this book. She is the co-editor of three other books and has numerous articles in refereed journals in sociology and politics.

Josh DeWind has been the Program Director of the Social Science Research Council International Migration Program since 1994. Dr. DeWind received his Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology of Columbia University in 1977. From 1989 to 2003 he was a Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College, City University of New York, where he initiated the college's Program on International Human Rights (1990-2003) and directed its Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (1989-1999). He has published numerous books, reports, and articles related to migration. He co-edited with Charles Hirschman and Philip Kasinitz The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience, (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999), which is a collection of interdisciplinary essays surveying the field of U.S. immigration studies based on a 1996 conference of the International Migration Program titled "Becoming American/America Becoming". In addition, he is a board member of the National Coalition for Haitian Rights and was a founding board member of both the Center for Immigrants Rights and the National Immigration Forum.

Ian Diamond is the Chief Executive of the UK Economic and Social Research Council. Professor Diamond joined the ESRC in January 2003 on an initial four year appointment. He came from the University of Southampton where he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor. He had been at Southampton since 1980 as lecturer, senior lecturer and Professor. A social statistician, Ian Diamond's work has crossed many disciplinary boundaries, most notably in the area of population but also in health, both in the developed and less developed world, in environmental noise and with local authorities. Ian Diamond's research has involved collaboration with many government departments including the Office for National Statistics, the Department for International Development, the Department of Transport and the Department for Work and Pensions.

Maria Claudia Miranda Diogo is Head of the Office for International Cooperation of CNPq - the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, the biggest Brazilian support agency. She assumed this position in 2000 and leads a group of about thirty technicians responsible for the planning and management of CNPQ's international cooperation activities, which include the negotiation of bilateral and multilateral agreements, the elaboration and the set up of cooperation programs, as well as their evaluation and follow-up processes, the conduction of studies and the preparation of specific documents, among others. Claudia Diogo is also an institutional representative in various international cooperation forums, like CYTED (Ibero-American Program of Science and Technology for Development), PROSUL (South American Program of Support to Cooperation Activities in Science and Technology) and PROÁFRICA (Program of Thematic Cooperation in Science and Technology Matters), the two latter financed by the Brazilian Government. She has been with CNPq since 1981, first as a Senior Analyst in Science and Technology and afterwards as responsible, consecutively, for the coordination of the RHAE Program (Capacity Building in Strategic Areas) and the PADCT Program (Program of Support to Scientific and Technological Development), the latter co-financed by the World Bank. Claudia Diogo is graduated in Geology and has a Masters Degree in Geosciences, by the Department of Management and Politics of Mineral Resources, Institute of Geosciences of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo, Brazil.

Peter Elias is a strategic adviser on data resources to the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), United Kingdom and a professor at the University of Warwick Institute for Employment Research. Dr. Elias is a labor economist and statistician. His recent research activities include: methods for classification of labor market activities; integration or combination of survey and administrative data sources; statistical methods for the analysis of labor market transitions; and monitoring change in the graduate labor market. Dr. Elias was a member of the ESRC's Research Resources Board (1997-2001) and is currently (2004-2007) working closely with the ESRC to development and implement the National Data Strategy - a long term plan to identify, fund and develop the data resources likely to be required by social scientists to address future research issues.

Eili Ervelä-Myréen is the Program Manager of the Research Council for Culture and Society at the Academy of Finland. She is also the Coordinator of the EU-funded ERA-NET NORFACE (New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Cooperation in Europe: A Strategy for Social Sciences), a coordination action with 12 partners. Eili has a long experience, some twenty years, of European cooperation between research funders, such as ESF, COST and the Nordic cooperation. She has been the program manager of the first Finnish-Swedish jointly funded research program at the Academy of Finland. She has also been instrumental in promoting the international networking of the research programs of the Academy of Finland, as the vice director for international cooperation of the Academy's horizontal team for research programs. She has a long experience of EU-funded socioeconomic research. She was a National Contact Point for the Targeted Socioeconomic Research Program and a member of the Subcommittee for the Socioeconomic Key Action. She is also a committee member for the 6th Framework Program Priority 7: Citizens and governance in a knowledge-based society; as well as a member of COST-CSO.

Michal Federowicz heads Department of Sociology of Politics and Economic Sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 1999 he also coordinates Polish part of the international project in education organized by the OECD: Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which is repeatedly run in 3-year cycles, currently in 55 countries. Among most important Federowicz's publications are: 'Anticipated Institutions: the Power of Path-finding Expectations'. In Democratic and Capitalist Transitions in Eastern Europe. Lessons for Social Sciences, M.Dobry (red.): Dordrecht / Boston / London: Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2000. 'Introduction: Corporate Governance from a Comparative Perspective - Bridging East and West', and 'Poland: Worker-driven Transformation to Capitalism?' In Corporate Governance in a Changing Economic and Political Environment: Trajectories of Institutional Change, M.Federowicz, R.Aguilera (eds.), Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003. "Variety of Capitalism: Institutionalism and the Systemic Change after Communism" (in Polish), IFiS PAN, Warsaw, 2005.

Chris Godwin is currently Associate Director for International Strategy at the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), where he also looks after Linguistics projects. Chris graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an MA Honours in Chinese Studies and Linguistics, and also has a Master's in Language Studies from the University of Hong Kong. He taught EFL and Linguistics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong before joining the Hong Kong Government as a policy officer. He spent several years working on education policy, drafting several White Paper level reports. Chris has published academic papers in the Journal of Chinese Linguistics, History of Education, British Journal of Educational Studies and Management Learning, as well as literary translations from Chinese and German into English.

Janet Halliwell assumed the role of Chief Operating Officer of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) in September 2005. She is also Executive Vice-President of SSHRC, with responsibility for policy and planning, international affairs, budget strategy, government relations, public affairs, audit, evaluation and the corporate secretariat. Prior to joining SSHRC, Janet served the research and academic communities in other executive and advisory positions. She was Chair of the Nova Scotia Council on Higher Education (1992-1996), Chair of the Science Council of Canada (1990-1992) and an officer of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (through to 1990). She has advised on a number of major Canadian projects, including the design of the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Janet holds degrees from Queen's University in Kingston and the University of British Columbia. She has received honorary doctorates from seven Canadian universities and is a recipient of the Walter Hitschfeld Prize for university research administration.

Metin Heper is Chairperson of the Department of Political Science, Director of the Center of Turkish Politics and History, and Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Administrative, and Social Sciences and Bilkent University, Ankara. Dr. Heper is a Founding and Council Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences, and Board Member of the Scientific and Technological Research Institute of Turkey (TUBITAK). He had been a Research Fellow at Harvard University, Lester Martin Fellow Research Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the University of Connecticut, Simon Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, England, and Madeleine Haas Russell Visiting Professor of Non-Western and Comparative Politics at Brandeis University, and Visiting Professor at Princeton University. In addition to his several journals articles, editor or co-editor of Islam and Politics in the Modern Middle East, The State, the Military, and Democracy in Turkey: Turkey in the 1980s, Political Parties and Democracy in Turkey, Turkey and the West: Changing Political and Cultural Identities, Politics in the Third Turkish Republic, Local Government in Turkey, The State and Public Bureaucracies: A Comparative Perspective, Strong State and Economic Interest Groups: The Post-1980 Turkish Experience, and Institutions and Democratic Statecraft, Political Leaders and Democracy in Turkey, and Political Parties in Turkey, and author of The State Tradition in Turkey, Historical, Dictionary of Turkey (first and second editions), and ?smet ?nönü: The Making of Turkish Statesman. Metin Heper received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University.

Rolf Höijer is head of the division for social sciences and Humanities at the Swedish Research Council. The Council is the Swedish Government agency responsible for basic research, and deals primarily with science funding, science information, and science policy. Höijer also serves as a board member on various boards involved in international research collaboration. Prior to his employment at the Swedish Research Council, Höijer worked as a researcher and temporary lecturer in Government at the London School of Economics. Höijer has a D.Phil degree in politics from Oxford University. He still occasionally works as a visiting lecturer at various universities, and conducts research as an affiliate researcher at the Public Policy Group at the London School of Economics as well as the Ratio Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

Hyup Choi is the Executive Director of the Directorate for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Korea Research Foundation. Previous appointments include serving as the Dean of the College of Social Sciences at Chonnam National University, as a member of the Presidential Commission for Policy and Planning, and as President of the Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology. In 1996 Professor Hyup was a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Hyup's research focuses primarily on cultural change, focusing specifically on material culture and issues of cultural representation. Hyup Choi received a B.A. in archaeology and anthropology from Seoul National University, an M.A. in anthropology from the University of Cincinnati, and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Kentucky.

Dius Lennon is the Director of Social Sciences, Humanities and Foresight in the European Commission's Research Directorate General. After ten years working in the British Treasury on financial issues, Dr. Lennon has worked since 1987 in various posts at the European Commission with responsibilities in areas such as the European Union budget, European regional policy, food safety, consumer policy and public health, before assuming his current post in the Research Directorate. His department manages the Social Sciences and Humanities thematic priority of the 6th EU RD Framework Program. As part of its recent proposals for the 7th EU RTD Framework Program, the European Commission has proposed a significantly expanded program in the Social Sciences, Humanities and Foresight for the 2007-2013 period with a budget of some €792 million. This budget is essentially to support a wide range of collaborative research between teams primarily from universities and research institutes, mostly from Europe, but often with partners from other parts of the world. Further, Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) will also play an important role in other parts of the EU Framework Program, notably research infrastructures, and the new European Research Council. Significant attention is also devoted to the integration of SSH dimensions in the other ("hard" S&T areas) of the Framework Program.

David W. Lightfoot is the Assistant Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences. Dr. Lightfoot serves as NSF Co-Chair of the President's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Committee on Science Subcommittee on Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences. Dr. Lightfoot previously held professorial appointments at McGill University, the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, and the University of Maryland. Dr. Lightfoot served as the Dean of the Graduate School at Georgetown University prior to assuming his position at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Lightfoot's honors include a Fulbright Scholarship, a Ford Foundation Fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, three National Science Foundation research grants, and various grants from the University of Maryland. In 2004 he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. Dr. Lightfoot writes mainly on syntactic theory, language acquisition, and historical change, which he views as intimately related. He has published eleven books, most recently How New Languages Emerge (Cambridge UP, 2006). David W. Lightfoot received a B.A. (Honors) in classics from the University of London, King's College, and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Michigan.

Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid is the Research Coordinator of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), a United National organization, having previously served as a research associate at the Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. His main non-academic activities include the provision of technical advice to Latin American governments on matters of macroeconomic policy, regional integration, and trade and development. As part of his academic activities he has published on Latin American economic and social development in journals such as the International Review of Applied Economics and Revista de la CEPAL. He received his M.A. from the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas and Ph.D. in economics and politics from the University of Cambridge.

Steve Morgan is the DFID-ESRC Project Director and Associate Director of RTD at the U.K. Economic and Social Research Council. Steve is currently responsible for a major new £13million initiative to fund research focussed on international poverty reduction. Steve has worked in the UK Research Council environment since 1988. Up to 2000 he was based at ESRC, though with two periods of secondment. He specialised in research and policy relating to global environmental change. During this period he headed a joint Council coordination office on global change and had a period of secondment to the European Union's Research Framework Programme working on environmental research. Following a change of direction, Steve left ESRC and the environmental agenda and between 2000 and 2005 was Associate Director for Evaluation at the Arts and Humanities Research Board (latterly Research Council) where he worked on re-defining research assessment and impact evaluation to better suit the arts and humanities. Steve is part-time and freelance in his current DFID-ESRC job and intends to pursue other interests, including research evaluation and impact assessment.

Osanai Masaru is Director of the London Office of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science since May 2005, and professor of the National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation. With a variety of experience in international exchange in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), he was Cultural Attaché of the Japanese Embassy in France (1993-96), Director of the Student Exchange Policy Office (1996-98), Chief of the Broadcast Planning and Programming Division at the University of the Air (Japanese Open University) (1998-2000), Director of the Office for International Cooperation Policy (2000-01), Director of International Science and Technology Affairs Division (2001-02), and Director of the Competitive Sports Division (2002-03). He was a professor of GRIPS (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies) (2003-05). During this time, he was also Managing Director of a project initiated by MEXT: "Support and Coordination Project for University Cooperation in International Development".

Cedric van der Poel is a scientific collaborator at the Research Department of the Graduate Institute for Development in Geneva and Project Manager at Avenir Suisse, a think tank for social and economic issues. Mr. van der Poel also just began his Ph.D. on the mobility of scientists linked to development and scientific collaboration. He got a Master's Degree in Anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He worked during two years at the State Secretariat for Education and Research in Bern where he developed new models of financing public research and education in Switzerland.

Diana Rhoten is the Program Director of the Knowledge Institutions Program at the Social Science Research Council. Her primary research focuses on the social and technical conditions of interdisciplinary research and the practices and processes of integrative education and training. Her most recent publications can be found in Science and the Social Science Research Council Items & Issues. In addition to publishing on these topics, Dr. Rhoten works with various organizations on the design, implementation and assessment of new forms of collaborative research, work and training. For her work in this area, Dr. Rhoten has been selected as a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer (July 2005-June 2007). Her second line of research focuses on local interpretations and implementations of global social science, and science policies in North and South America. Related publications can be found in the Journal of Education Policy, Comparative Education Review, The New Accountability: High Schools and High-Stakes Testing, and Las Reformas Educativas en la Década de 1990: Un Estudio Comparado de Argentina, Chile y Uruguay. Previously, Dr. Rhoten served as an Assistant Professor at Stanford University and as Research Director of the Hybrid Vigor Institute. Dr. Rhoten has a Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Policy, and Educational Practice and an M.A. in Sociology from Stanford University, as well as an M.Ed. in International Development Education from Harvard University.

Jean-Michel Roddaz was appointed Head of the Social Sciences and Humanities of the French National Research Agency in September 2005. In addition to teaching assignments at l'Ecole Francaise de Rome and at the University of Bordeaux, Dr. Roddaz formerly served as the Director of the Ausonius-House Institute of Archaeology. Dr. Roddaz has also served on a number of national committees: the CNRS National Committee, the Scientific Committee of Casa de Velazquez, of the Canussio Foundation, the National committee of Historical and Scientific Work, and as an expert attached to the National Committee of Evaluation. Dr. Roddaz has been an invited professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Universities of Saragossa, Salamanque, Valladolid, Vitoria, Genoa, Sassari, Pisa, Rome, Bologna, Coimbra, Liege and Valparaiso. Jean-Michel Roddaz studied in both Grenoble and Bordeaux and received his Ph.D. in incorporated history from the University of Bordeaux.

Ebrima Sall is Head of the Research Department at the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). Dr. Sall's recent publications include Post-Conflict Transition and Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa, "Social Movements in the Renegotiation of the Bases for Citizenship in West Africa", "African Scholars: Too Poor to be Free" and Women in Academia: Gender and Academic Freedom in Africa. Ebrima Sall holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Paris I Sorbonne, France.

Willem van Schendel is a Professor of Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam, head of the Asia Department of the International Institute of Social History at Amsterdam, and member of the SEPHIS Steering Committee (South-South Exchange Program for Research on the History of Development). Dr. Van Schendel formerly held the chair of Comparative History at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. His research interests include poverty, rural social structure, peasant revolt, and ethnicity. Willem's recent publications include Identity Politics in Central Asia and the Muslim World, Time Matters: Global and Local Time in Asian Societies, The Bengal Borderland: Beyond State and Nation in South Asia, and Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders and the Other Side of Globalization. Willem van Schendel received his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam.

Henk Stronkhorst is the Director of the Social Sciences Units of the European Science Foundation. After his candidate and doctoral degrees in developmental sociology and social statistics at the Free University of Amsterdam, he completed a Ph.D. at the University of Arizona. As an Assistant Professor he taught at the Free University and the Catholic University of Nijmegen. From 1981 until 1994 he worked for Statistics Netherlands, first as a Senior Sociometrician in the Department of Statistical Methods, and subsequently as head of the Department for Socio-Cultural Statistics. In this period he taught several summer courses on the multivariate analysis of social science data organized by the European Consortium for Political Research at the University of Essex. In 1994 he joined the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), to launch a new service in the field of research infrastructure: the Scientific Statistical Agency. From the very start he was involved in the initiative to develop a European Social Survey. In 1996 he became director of NWO's Social Science Research Council, until he moved to the ESF in Strasbourg.

Ingebjørg Strøno Sejersted works as a special adviser with the Research Council of Norway, specifically with Social Science matters. She has been employed at the Council since 1988, save two years (1995-96) when she worked at the Ministry of Foreign affairs. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Strøno Sejersted mainly worked with questions on Women and Development, with a special focus on coordinating the Norwegian participation in UNs fifth Conference on Women held in Bejing in 1995. Before she started working with the Research Council, she was a school-psychologist in Oslo for 8 years. She has a MD in Educational Psychology from University of Oslo from 1978. She also has a BA in Art History. During the years within the Research Council Strøno Sejersted has been working with a great variety of matters, as research programs on education, migration, gender, culture and tradition; but also responsive mode funding; evaluations; improvement of administrative routines, like procedures for project assessment procedures. She has long experience in international cooperation within research administration. During 11/2year-period recently she was acting director of Department for Social Sciences.

Christian Sylvain is the Director of Corporate Policy and Planning at the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Responsible for developing and managing corporate policy and planning, setting corporate directions (including in international affairs), and developing policy and budgeting initiatives, Christian leads the conceptual and operational dimensions of SSHRC's "transformation initiative" aimed at renewing the humanities and social sciences in Canada. He sits on numerous governmental and international committees and recently initiated a number of collaborative ventures between SSHRC and sister organizations in other countries. A graduate of the Université de Montréal in Biological Sciences and of McGill University in Information Studies, Christian pursued graduate studies in Science and Technology Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam and doctoral work in information policy at the University of Western Ontario. Prior to joining the Council, Christian worked as Director of Government Relations and Public Affairs at the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, where he led policy work in support of advocacy and media relations. He has also worked as a consultant and researcher in the fields of science policy and research evaluation and as a lecturer at the Université de Montréal and University of Western Ontario.

Erno Taxner is the Chairman of the Social Sciences and Humanities Committee of the Hungarian National Scientific Research Fund. In 2002 Dr. Taxner was awarded the Széchenyi-Preize given by the President of Hungary in recognition of scientific activity and research. Dr. Taxner is the former Vice-President of the Hungarian PhD Training Board and the Vice-Rector of the University of Debrecen. Dr. Taxner also served as the Assistant Secretary of State in the Ministry of Culture and Education. Dr. Taxner is the author of thirteen monographs on the history of literature and communication. Ern? Taxner received an undergraduate degree and Ph.D. from Eötvös Lóránd University in the History of Literature.

Mandy Thomas holds the position of Executive Director at the Australian Research Council (ARC). She is responsible for competitive funding for research and research training in the discipline areas of Humanities and Creative Arts, and also coordinates ARC Discovery Projects, the largest of the ARC's research schemes which operates across all disciplinary areas and supports basic research. She also manages the Indigenous Researchers Development scheme which aims to build capacity among Indigenous researchers. In the research policy area she has recently been involved in developing an international strategy for the ARC. An anthropologist by training, Dr Thomas has extensive multi-disciplinary experience which has involved research, consultancies and publications in the areas of Indigenous Australia, multicultural Australia, and Asian studies.

Nigel Thrift is currently Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) as well as Head of the Division of Life and Environmental Sciences and Professor in the School of Geography at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Bristol. His career spans appointments at the Universities of Cambridge, Wales, Leeds and Bristol as well as at the Australian National University. He is the recipient of the Royal Geographical Society Victoria Medal for contributions to geographic research, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His main research interests are in cities, international finance, social and cultural theory and the history of time. His latest book is Knowing Capitalism (Sage, 2005).

Rachel Tronstein is the Coordinator of the Knowledge Institutions Program at the Social Science Research Council. Rachel is also the author of the Funder Summary Report prepared for this meeting. She has an MSc in the Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics; her dissertation considers how education might decrease the incidence of child labor in the United States and India. Ms. Tronstein received her B.A. from the University of Michigan. She also did coursework at Beijing University, and is generally interested in the geopolitics of U.S.-China relations. Rachel joined the Council following a brief foray into electoral politics and remains interested in policy relating to knowledge production and education. Rachel was active in the design of the undergraduate academic program at the University of Michigan while serving as president of the student government. She also testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce on the design of reform mathematics programs at the secondary level.

Yun Un Kyun is the Director of the Office of International Relations at the Korean Research Foundation, having previously served as Director of the Brain Korea 21 Division of the Korean Research Foundation. Yun Un Kyun has also worked as an editor in a private publishing company. Yun Un Kyun received a B.A. in French literature from Seoul National University and an M.A. in French literature from Sungkyunkwan University.

Wang Lei is the Assistant Director-General and Director of the European Division of the International Cooperation Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, having previously served as Deputy Director of the Asian and African Division. Wang Lei's recent publications include WTO and Reform of China's Foreign-Related Enterprise Income Taxation System, "China is Facing Anti-Dumping Challenges: Current Situation and Countermeasures", and "An Overview of Investment in Hong Kong and Macao by Chinese Inland Investors." Professor Wang has also conducted a study on European taxation. Wang Lei received a B.A. in economics from the Beijing College of Economics, an M.A. in public policy and administration from the Institute of Social Sciences in the Hague, and a Ph.D. in economics from The Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Wanda E. Ward is the Deputy Assistant Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences. Dr. Ward has served in a number of science and engineering policy, planning, and program capacities since joining NSF in 1992 and has also served on several NSF and U.S. interagency committees including: NSF Co-Chair, the President's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Committee on Science Subcommittee on Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (2004-2005) and Executive Secretary of the NSTC CET Subcommittee on Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education (1994-1996). Prior to joining the NSF, Dr. Ward served as tenured Associate Professor of Psychology and Founding Director of the Center for Research on Multi-Ethnic Education at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. She has also held academic positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Social Organization of Schools. She took the B.A. in Psychology and the Afro-American Studies Certificate from Princeton University and the Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University. She was awarded the Ford Foundation Fellowship; and is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), where she was awarded the 2005 APA Presidential Citation, the American Psychological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Zhang Lihua is Professor and Deputy Director of American & Oceania Division, Bureau of International Cooperation, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her working experience includes leading programs in academic exchange and cooperation between the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and international organizations, academic institutions in European countries and in American and Oceanian countries. Her present research concentrates on globalization and China. Her primary published English works include "The Stakeholder Corporation"; "The Social History of Media"; "Create That Change"; "Build That Team"; "Nine Super Simple Steps to Entrepreneurial Success"; "On Democracy" (co-translator), along with many academic papers. She received a B.A. in British and American Literature from Shanghai Foreign Languages Institute in China.