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Meeting Report from New Rules
Special Inaugural Meeting
Appendices:
A:
List of Members as of May 17, 2006
B:
New Rules Activities
C: Final Recommendations from FFD Consultations
D:
Project Description - Democratic Governance and Parliamentary Oversight (DGPO)
Project
E:
Board Candidate Bios
F:
Proposals Received for Discussion
APPENDIX E: Board Candidates Bios
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.
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 brings 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 work to our team. 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.
Paul Tennassee
is the Representative of the World Confederation of Labor (WCL) at the United
Nations (UN) and Director of the WCL, Washington Liaison Office. He was also the
Historian & Director of International Affairs for the National Alliance of
Federal Employees (NAPFE). The WCL has 144 affiliated organizations in 116
countries. Prior to coming to the USA, he was Head of Americas Trade office
(Trinidad & Tobago), Secretary of International Relations for the National
Workers Union (NWU) in Guyana, Secretary General of the Caribbean Workers
Council (CWC), Deputy Director of the Caribbean Institute of Social Formation (CARISFORM),
Co Founder of the Caribbean Working Women’s Movement and Executive Member of the
Confederation Latino Americana de Trabajadores (CLAT). Tennassee lectured at
Central University of Venezuela, York University, Canada and Latin American
Workers University, Caribbean Institute of Social Formation. He holds a Diploma
in Social Studies from Oxford University, a B.A. from York University, Canada,
MSc from Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) and a MA from John Hopkins
University, USA.
Jim Weaver
is Professor Emeritus of Economics at American University where he taught
development economics for 30 years. Development Studies Program in USAID,
Consultant to USAID, IDB, World Bank, UNDP. He now teaches at American
University's Institute for Learning in Retirement. He is the author of five
books and 30 articles. Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, Economics; MDiv. American
University, Theology. |
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