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New
Rules Board of Directors Elected May 17,2006
Jo Marie Griesgraber (ex-officio),
Paul Tennassee, Seamus Finn, Liane Schalatek,
John Sewell, Coralie Bryant, Randall
Dodd
Fida Adely
is currently an Assistant Professor and the Clovis and Hala Salaam Maksoud Chair
in Arab Studies Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at the Georgetown
University School of Foreign Service. Dr. Adely was previously a Visiting
Assistant Professor in the Department of International and Trancultural Studies
at Teachers College, Columbia University. In addition, she was a Lecturer at
Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) from 2000-2005. At
SIPA she was a member of the faculty in the Economic and Political Development
Program as well as the Coordinator of the Workshop in Applied Development.
Her most recent research has focused on schools, and in particular secondary
schooling for girls in Jordan. This work examines the role of schools as both
state institutions, and critical social spaces for young people in their
struggles to define and make sense of national, religious and gendered
identities in Jordan today. Her research interests also include women and
development, gender and education, Islamic education in public schools, civic
education, and development aid to the Middle East and North Africa.
Manish Bapna is the
Executive Vice President and Managing Director
of World Resources International Administration. Prior to
joining WRI in June 2007, Manish Bapna served as Executive Director of the
nonprofit Bank Information Center (BIC) and provided leadership for the
organization's mission to protect rights and promote sustainability in the
projects and policies of international financial institutions. Bapna presided
over considerable growth at BIC, including increases in its staff, funding and
influence. He is a recognized expert on the poverty-environment nexus, and on
the transparency and accountability of global institutions. Bapna previously
served as Senior Economist and task team leader at the World Bank. During his
seven year tenure at the Bank, he led multidisciplinary teams in the design and
implementation of rural development projects in Asia and Latin America -- with a
particular focus on the sustainable and equitable use of natural resources.
Bapna also advised several nonprofit development groups including Seva Mandir
and Women's World Banking. In an earlier incarnation, he worked as a strategy
consultant for McKinsey & Company in the financial services and technology
industries. Mr. Bapna has an MBA and an MPA from Harvard University and a SB
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He and his wife, Geeta, recently
had their first child, a daughter named Laila, in May 2007.
Coralie Bryant,
Convener, Development Policy Roundtable, Washington, DC and International
Associate, Center for Peace and Human Security, Sciences-Po, Paris. She was
previously the Professor and Director of the Economic and Political Development
Program at the School of International and Public Affairs, at Columbia
University, Coralie’s has written/contributed to Reducing Poverty, Building
Peace and Going Global: Transforming International Relief and Development
NGOs. She was a senior staff member of the World Bank, where, among other
work, in 1990-1991 she was one of the central authors and negotiators for the
World Bank's first policy paper on governance.
Randall Dodd
is the founder and director of the Financial Policy Forum in Washington, D.C. He
previously worked as an economist for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading
Commission and as a special advisor to Commissioner Holum. Prior to the CFTC, he
served the U.S. Congress as a senior economist for the Joint Economic Committee
and the Democratic Study Group and he was the Legislative Director for
Congressman Joe Kennedy who serviced on the House Banking Committee. Before
moving to Washington, D.C., he worked at Citicorp Investment Bank writing
financial market reports and conducting econometric tests of forecasting models.
In addition to his government and corporate experience, he has taught economics,
finance and political philosophy at Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Rutgers, Maryland,
and American Universities as well as Columbia's Graduate Business School and
CUNY's Baruch College Business School. He received his PhD in economics from
Columbia University where he specialized in international trade and finance,
labor and development.
Rev. Séamus Finn, OMI
has directed the US Oblate JPIC Office since its inception. He represents the
Missionary Oblates on the boards of directors of a number of organizations that
the Oblates support both in the U.S. and internationally. He has visited many of
the places where Oblates work to explore ways in which the office can be
supportive of their efforts. He is a leader in the faith based institutional
Socially Responsible Investing, and serves as chair of the board of the
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. ThD. Boston University, Theology.
Irfan Ul Haque
is currently a
Special Advisor
on Finance and Development, South Centre. Ph.D. from Cambridge, worked for
UNCTAD, the World Bank, and the South Centre as well as taught economics at the
University of Cambridge and Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan. In recent
years, consultant to UNCTAD, ILO, and G-24, and panelist in a number of UN
forums, including UNCTAD’s Group of Eminent Persons on the commodity issue.
Louka T. Katseli
is currently a State Member of Hellenic Parliament, on leave from the University
of Athens, where she is Professor of Economics since 1987. Between 2003-2007,
she has served as Director of the OECD
Development Centre. Prof. Katseli
has received
her Doctorate in Development and International Economics from Princeton
University in 1978, has spent most of her academic career at Yale University
(1977 -1985), and the University of Athens, where she was chair of the Economics
Department from 1997 to 2001. She has also been associated with the Center for
Economic Policy Research in London as a Research Fellow since 1984. Her many
publications have focused on issues such as the linkages between foreign
investment and trade in developing countries, the economics of migration, public
policy effectiveness and institution-building in developing countries, and
exchange rate policy in emerging markets. From 1982 to 1986, Prof. Katseli
served as the Director General of the Center of Planning and Economic Research (KEPE),
a Greek development think-tank that provides economic development policy advice
to the Greek government. She served as economic advisor to the Greek Prime
Minister from 1993 to 1996, and as advisor to the Greek Minister of Education
from 1996 to 1998.
Richard Kirby is a partner in the securities
litigation practice at K&L Gates. He concentrates in complex corporate,
securities, commercial, bankruptcy and administrative law issues through
negotiation, alternative dispute resolution and litigation. He counsels clients
on corporate restructuring, securities regulatory and accounting issues as well
as personnel, capital formation and acquisition matters.
Richard has over a decade of experience in private
practice representing targets of SEC, Justice Department, state and
self–regulatory enforcement investigations as well as plaintiffs and defendants
in private securities fraud actions. He also frequently represents creditors in
restructuring and bankruptcy reorganization cases.
Richard served in the Office of the General Counsel of
the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. where he briefed and
argued more than 50 major securities cases. He oversaw SEC participation in
reorganization cases under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code and supervised SEC
regional office lawyers in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Atlanta who
appeared in large public company cases around the country. He also oversaw the
SEC representation in the bankruptcy reorganization case of the Drexel Burnham
Lambert, Inc. and the administration of the related Drexel and Michael Milken
private securities litigation settlement funds.
Between 1975–1978, he served in the U. S. Army Judge
Advocate General's Corps where he primarily handled appeals from Army
courts–martial. He also lectured on criminal law at the Judge Advocate General's
School at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Chukwuma F. Obidegwu
is currently a private consultant with over 30 years of years experience in
multiple areas of international development and economic and public policy. His
recent clients have included the World Bank and the African Development Bank.
His main interests are in the public policy arena – development strategies and
policies for economic growth, good governance and broad improvements in
standards of living. Areas of current interest and specialization include public
financial management, the role and the management of foreign assistance, post
conflict socio-economic recovery, capacity and institutional development, and
economic management in natural resource rich countries.
Dr.
Obidegwu served as an economist at the World Bank for 27 years. In 2007, he
retired as a Lead Economist, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, Africa
Region of the World Bank, a position he held from 2000 2007. In this capacity,
he specialized in the design and management of economic reform, public sector
management, institutional development, economic and social reconstruction, and
recovery of conflict-affected countries. Prior to this appointment, he was the
Team Leader/Country Economist for Rwanda, where he led the Bank’s policy
dialogue during the post-conflict period of intense social, economic, and
political reconstruction and reform. Among other assignments, he was Senior
Economist in the Strategic Planning and Review Department of the World Bank from
1987-1990 and the Resident Senior Economist in the World Bank’s office in Uganda
from 1991 to 1994. He is the author of a number of publications including two
recent staff working papers: Rwanda: the Search for Post-Conflict
Socio-Economic Change, 1995-2001, and Post Conflict Peace Building in
Africa: the Challenges of Socio-Economic Recovery and Development.
Prior to
joining the World Bank, Dr. Obidegwu worked at the Wharton Econometric
Forecasting Associates, Philadelphia PA primarily on the integrated
econometric investigation of the impact of commodity market behavior on
producing nations, and on econometric modeling and economic forecasting at the
Institute for Policy Analysis, Toronto, Canada. He also worked as a
research officer at the British Railways Engineering Research Division in
Derby England.
Dr.
Obidegwu holds a Ph.D. from the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania.
He had previously obtained an MBA from the University of Toronto in Canada and a
BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nottingham in Britain.
Thomas Palley is an economist living in
Washington DC. He holds a B.A. degree from Oxford University and a M.A. degree
in International Relations and Ph.D. in Economics, both from Yale University. He
has published in numerous academic journals, and written for The Atlantic
Monthly, American Prospect and Nation magazines. Dr. Palley has
recently started a project, Economics for Democratic & Open Societies. The goal
of the project is to stimulate public discussion about what kinds of economic
arrangements and conditions are needed to promote democracy and open society.
Dr. Palley was formerly Chief Economist with the US – China Economic and
Security Review Commission. Prior to joining the Commission he was Director of
the Open Society Institute’s Globalization Reform Project, and before that he
was Assistant Director of Public Policy at the AFL-CIO.
Liane Schalatek
is the Associate Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation North America. She
heads the programs on International Finance and Trade and Gender Equality and is
responsible for supporting the Director in her representational duties and
overall program management. Liane has several years of experience in global
governance, specifically international trade and finance, as well as the
promotion of gender equality and women's empowerment in the international
program. Before joining HBF in 1999, Liane served as Program Officer for
Transatlantic Economic Relations at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in
Washington. She is a formally trained newspaper editor and also worked as a
free-lance journalist for several years. She still researches and publishes on
international trade, finance and gender issues. Liane holds a M.A. in Political
Science and Political Economy from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and a
M.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University, Washington D.C.
John Sewell
is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in
Washington DC. He is the former president of the Overseas Development Council (ODC),
an international policy research institution with a mandate to improve
multilateral decision making in order to promote more effective development and
the better management of related global problems. Mr. Sewell is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations and has served as the Vice-Chair of the Board of
the International Center for Research on Women.
Celine Tan is a doctoral candidate at the School of Law, University of
Warwick under the supervision of Profs Abdul Paliwala and Upendra Baxi. Her
research centres on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) approach to
development financing, in particular on its impact on the constitution of global
governance and international political and economic relations between parties to
financing under this framework. Celine is a Warwick Postgraduate Research Fellow
and teaches in the law school. She is also Production Editor of the Law, Social
Justice and Global Development (LGD) Electronic Law Journal, a free-to-access
journal based at the law school. Prior to Warwick, Celine was a Researcher with
the Third World Network, a non-governmental organisation based in Penang,
Malaysia. She has also worked with other NGOs including the London-based Bretton
Woods Project and with human rights organisations based in Malaysia. Celine
holds an LLM in Law in Development from Warwick and an LLB from the University
of London. She has also taught law and worked as a journalist in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.
Paul Nehru Tennassee is the Director of International Affairs at the University of
the District of Columbia. He also taught Globalization: Problems & Challenges
and Latin American History. Previously, he was the Director of the World
Confederation of Labor (WCL) Washington Liaison Office vis a vis the IMF and the
World Bank Group, Director of International Affairs of the National Alliance of
Postal and Federal Employees (NAPFE) and the WCL Permanent Representative at the
United Nations. Prior to his work experience in the USA, he was an Executive
Member of the Confederation of Latin American Workers (CLAT), General Secretary
of the Caribbean Workers Council and Deputy Director of the Caribbean Institute
of Social Formation and a Presidential Candidate in Guyana’s 1985 & 1992
elections. He is a frequent contributor to National Alliance, Guyana Journal and
Producer/Host of a television program entitled CARIBNATION. He has lectured at
universities in Venezuela, Canada and USA and is the author of Venezuela Los
Obreros Petroleros y La Lucha Por La Democracia: 1918-1948 and several other
publications on subjects related to the Americas and Global Governance. He read
social science, history, government and international relations at Oxford/UK,
UCV/Venezuela, YU/Canada and JHU/USA. A recipient of the pinnacle Award from the
National Coalition on Caribbean Affairs and a life member of the Oxford Union
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