Panelists
Ken Armwood, Administrator of Youth Services and Community Education, American Red Cross of Central New Jersey
Kenneth Armwood is the Administrator of Youth Services and Community Education for the American Red Cross of Central New Jersey. In this position, Mr. Armwood engages young people in all areas of service delivery to support the mission of the American Red Cross such as disaster relief, health education, support to senior citizens, and support to area blood drives.
Prior to joining the American Red Cross. At the age of 19, Mr. Armwood was elected to the Piscataway Township Board of Education and served two terms (1994-2000). During his tenure on the Board of Education, he served as Chairman of the Community Relations Committee and as a member of the Policy, Personnel, and Curriculum Committees.
Mr. Armwood has been active in many local collaborations targeted to assist children such as the Piscataway Turn-On Youth Coalition (1994-1998), the Piscataway Education and Community Endeavor (P.E.A.C.E.) (1995) and as a member of the Middlesex County Task Force on School Violence (2000-present) he helped to design a three-part resource manual to address issues of school violence and emergencies, which has been recognized by the New Jersey State Legislature as a model school violence plan for other counties.
Mr. Armwood has worked in partnership with the Rutgers University Citizenship And Service Education (C.A.S.E.) program and the Rutgers University Center for Global Security and Democracy to provide technical support to service-learning projects in Lebanon, Moldova, the Balkans, and Haiti with an emphasis on helping universities and NGO's collaborate on mutually beneficial service-learning projects. In partnership with the Rutgers University C.A.S.E. program and the Rutgers University Global Partnerships for Activism And Cross-Cultural Training (Global P.A.C.T.) Group, he also created the World Youth Leadership and Activism Conference http://njredcross.org/programs/youthLeadConf.asp.
On December 31, 2001, Mr. Armwood was recognized by The New York Times for outstanding youth involvement: http://www.nyredcross.org/news/000104_nytimes.asp
Mr. Armwood received his BA in Political Science from Rutgers University.
Speeches
March 2000- American Red Cross New Jersey State Convention. Spoke about how to establish effective youth volunteer programs.
May 2001- American Red Cross National Convention. Spoke about community collaborations to address school violence.
June 2001- University of Balamand in Tripoli, Lebanon. Spoke about the relationship of NGO's and the universities and how to motivate students to participate in service-learning.
May 2003- Moldova State University in Chisinau, Moldova. Spoke about how to effectively work with NGO's to develop service-learning programs and the benefits of civic engagement.
November 2003- Rutgers University Model United Nations. Spoke about the role of the International Red Cross and international health issues.
Rachel Baggaley, Head, HIV Unit, Christian Aid
Rachel Baggaley studied medicine at Oxford University and after several years in hospital medicine took a masters in social sciences at London University. In the late 1980s and early 1992 she worked with injecting drug users in south London – working on harm reduction programs. These programs have ensured that HIV prevalence rates among drug users in the UK have remained low. From 1992-8 she worked in Zambia setting up voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) services with a Zambian NGO Kara Counseling and Training Trust. She worked on a wide range of HIV projects with Kara including care for people living with HIV, peer education and support for families affected by HIV. She also worked with UNICEF in Lusaka to develop their ‘Caring for us’ program – which now runs in all UNICEF country offices. From 1998-2002 she worked for WHO/UNAIDS, initially based in Geneva and then back in London. She worked on a number of initiatives but primarily on access for ARVs, VCT and prevention of mother-to-child transmission programs in Africa, Asia and the former Soviet Union. Since May 2002 she has been the head of the HIV unit at Christian Aid (CA). CA is a large UK based NGO working in more than 50 developing countries. It works through 600 community–based partner organizations with 136 working specifically on HIV. Approximately half of the partner organizations working on HIV are faith-based. A particular objective has been to support faith-based organizations to work more effectively on HIV and to challenge HIV stigma, denial and discrimination in churches and FBOs. RB is also a honorary research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and has presented work at many HIV meetings and published widely.
Larry Bartels, Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Larry Bartels is a professor of politics and public affairs and the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He is the founding director of Princeton's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, which supports empirical research of normative significance on democratic processes and institutions, primarily in the contemporary United States. Bartels has published numerous articles on electoral politics, public opinion, the mass media, and political methodology. His books include Presidential Primaries and the Dynamics of Public Choice, which received the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the year's best book on government, politics, or international affairs, and Campaign Reform: Insights and Evidence (co-edited with Lynn Vavreck). He has been the recipient of several major grants and fellowships, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His current research focuses on the American electoral process, the political economy of inequality, and democratic theory.
Kennette M. Benedict, Director, International Peace and Security; Senior Advisor on Philanthropy, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Kennette Benedict is Director of the International Peace and Security Program at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Dr. Benedict is a former Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Rutgers University. She received her AB degree in government from Oberlin College, and worked in Massachusetts state government from 1970 to 1972. She received her PhD in political science from Stanford University in 1980.
João Biehl, Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, Princeton University
João Biehl. His anthropological work is concerned with the global flows of scientific knowledge and medical technology, and with their integration into new market strategies, forms of governance and subjectivity particularly in Latin American contexts. His historical work is concerned with the relation between reason and religion in modernity and with the political use of scientific ideas and racial discourses in post-colonial contexts.
As a NIMH post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School (1999-2000), he began new research on life-sustaining technologies and bioethics. He is currently working on two books: Biotechnology and the New Politics of Life and Death in Brazil: The AIDS Model and Ex-Human (with photographer Torben Eskerod). He is also editing a volume entitled Subjectivity Transformed (with Byron Good and Arthur Kleinman).
He teaches courses on medical anthropology, cultures of science and technology, psychological, anthropology, Latin American societies and cultures, and social thought and ethics.
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1999; Ph.D. Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 1996
Rev. Dr. Thomas Breidenthal, Dean of Religious Life and Dean of the Chapel, Office of Religious Life, Princeton University
Thomas Breidenthal has been Dean of Religious Life and Dean of the Chapel at Princeton University since January 2002. Before then he was the John Henry Hobart Professor of Christian Ethics at The General Theological Seminary in New York City. An Episcopal priest, Breidenthal received a D. Phil. in Theology from Oxford University, and is the author of Christian Households: The Sanctification of Nearness (Cowley Publications, 1997). He lives in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife, Margaret, and their two children.
Paul Brest, President, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Paul Brest is the President of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, California. Mr. Brest received an A.B. from Swarthmore College in 1962 and an LL.B from Harvard Law School in 1965.
He served as law clerk to Judge Bailey Aldrich and Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan, and practiced with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., in Jackson, Mississippi, doing civil rights litigation before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1969, where his research and teaching focused on constitutional law and problem-solving.
From 1987 to 1999, he served as the dean of Stanford Law School. Mr. Brest is coauthor of Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (4th ed., 2000), and currently teaches a law school course on Problem-solving, Decisionmaking, and Professional Judgment. He holds honorary degrees from Northeastern Law School and Swarthmore College and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Kathryn Bushkin, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer United Nations Foundation
Kathy Bushkin is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the United Nations Foundation. The United Nations Foundation was created in 1998 with businessman and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic gift to support UN causes. Through its grantmaking and by building new and innovative public-private partnerships, the United Nations Foundation acts to meet the most pressing health, humanitarian, socioeconomic, and environmental challenges of the 21st century.
Prior to joining the United Nations Foundation, Kathy Bushkin served as President of the AOL Time Warner Foundation. She led the AOL Time Warner Foundation since its creation in 2001 when AOL and Time Warner merged. Ms. Bushkin also guided AOL Time Warner's other philanthropic activities and was the chief architect of the company's corporate responsibility initiatives. Kathy Bushkin joined America Online in 1997 as Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer at America Online, following a career in politics, journalism and public relations.
Immediately prior to joining AOL, she was a Senior Managing Director at Hill and Knowlton, a global public relations company, where she led the U.S. Media Relations practice. For 12 years before that, she was the Director of Editorial Administration for U.S. News & World Report. From 1976 through 1984, Kathy Bushkin served as Senator Gary Hart's press secretary in his Senate office and 1984 Presidential campaign.
Throughout her career, Ms. Bushkin has taken an active role in a range of philanthropic activities. She currently serves on the boards of the International Women's Media Foundation, City Year, Share Our Strength, Internews, and the National Women's Law Center. In 1999 she and Art Bushkin founded the Stargazer Foundation, which operates the web platform, StargazerNET.net, which provides free online tools for nonprofits.
Kathy Bushkin is a graduate of Purdue University and the recipient of numerous awards for leadership and philanthropy.
John Cannelli, Executive Director, Lifebeat
John Cannelli is the executive director of LIFEbeat, the Music Industry Fights AIDS, a national non-profit organization dedicated to reaching America's youth with the message of HIV/AIDS prevention. LIFEbeat mobilizes the talents and resources of the music industry to raise awareness and to provide support to the AIDS community. Previously, Mr. Cannelli served as Senior Vice-President of Music and Talent at MTV where he was responsible for programming music videos, maintaining relationships with artists, managers and record companies as well as booking such shows as the Video Music Awards and Unplugged. Mr. Cannelli was also the president of ROCKET RECORDS (Elton John’s record label); in this position he signed recording artists, recorded and marketed releases for new talent, and worked with Elton John on his records. Mr. Cannelli has a BA in Government from the College of William and Mary and an MPA in Public Administration from the American University in Washington, DC.
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Founder, Fernando Henrique Cardoso Institute; Chair of the Secretary-General's Panel of Eminent Persons on Civil Society and UN Relationships; President of Brazil, 1995-2002
Fernando Henrique Cardoso is the two-term President of the Federal Republic of Brazil, first inaugurated on January 1st, 1995 and re-elected by an absolute majority on October 4th, 1998. President Cardoso's term ended January 1st, 2003.
President Cardoso was elected to the Brazilian senate from the state of Sao Paulo in 1986 and two years later helped to found the Social Democratic party. He later served from 1992 to1993 as Foreign Minister. He became Economy Minister in 1993 and was credited with successfully controlling inflation and turning the troubled Brazilian economy around.
A leading Latin American sociologist, President Cardoso has been Visiting Professor at various academic centers in Europe and the United Sates, including the Collège de France, the University of Paris, University of Cambridge, University of Berkeley and Stanford University. Some of his books on sociology, political science and international relations are translated in several languages.
William Carmichael, MPA ’52 (Ph.D. ’60 Economics), Former Vice President, Developing Country Programs, The Ford Foundation
William D. Carmichael, MPA ’52. Since 1993, Bill has worked as an independent consultant, with foundations, NGOs, and universities as clients. He has worked closely with Ashoka since 1997, and he is a board member of Human Rights Watch, where he has chaired the Finance Committee and the Advisory Committee for its Africa Division.
From late 1989 through mid-1993, he served as Executive Director of the (former) Soviet Union and Eastern European Programs of the Institute of International Education.
From 1968 until 1989, he was on the staff of The Ford Foundation, as Representative in Brazil (1968-71), head of the Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (1971-77), head of the Office for the Middle East and Africa (1977-81), and Vice President, Developing Country Programs (1981-89).
Before joining the Foundation, he was Dean of Cornell University’s Graduate School of Business and Public Administration. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Economics and Pubic Affairs at Princeton and the Director of the Undergraduate Program at the Woodrow Wilson School. He has also been a legislative analyst and budget examiner with the U.S. Bureau of the Budget and a lecturer at the University of Maryland. He holds a B.Litt. in Economics from Oxford University (where he was a Rhodes Scholar), an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School, a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton, and an honorary LL.D. from the University of the West Indies.
Sarah Chayes, Director: Bakhtar Agriculture and Livestock Cooperative, Kandahar Afghanistan: Field Director, Afghans for Civil Society, Kandahar Afghanistan, 2002-2004; Reporter: National Public Radio, 1996-2002; ABC Person of the Week, December, 2003
Sarah Chayes. After reporting for years for National Public Radio in the Balkans, North Africa, and the Middle East, as well as her base in Paris, Sarah Chayes is taking a break from radio to make a direct contribution to reconstructing a post-conflict society. She is helping run an Afghan non-governmental, non-profit organization, Afghans for Civil Society. Based in the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, its primary mission is to bring to Afghanistan some of the intellectual resources necessary for formulating constructive public policy. It is also sponsoring community-to-community projects, such as a sister-school initiative and the rebuilding of houses destroyed during the recent conflict. Since February 1, 2004, she has served as Director of the Bakhtar Agriculture and Livestock Cooperative (BALCO), in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
From 1996, Ms. Chayes was Paris reporter for National Public Radio. Her work during the Kosovo crisis earned her the 1999 Foreign Press Club and Sigma Delta Chi awards, together with other members of the NPR team. She has also reported from Algeria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, Serbia and Bosnia, as well as covering the International War Crimes Tribunal, and the European Union. Before that, Ms. Chayes free-lanced from Paris for a variety of radio and print outlets, including Monitor Radio, Radio Deutsche Welle, and The Christian Science Monitor. She began her radio career in 1991 at Monitor Radio’s Boston, MA headquarters.
Ms. Chayes graduated in History from Harvard University in 1984, earning the Radcliffe College History Prize for best senior thesis written by a woman. She served in the Peace Corps in Morocco, then returned to Harvard to earn a master’s degree in History and Middle Eastern Studies, specializing in the medieval Islamic period. She was born in Washington DC, in 1962. She has three sisters and one brother.
John Clark, Project Director, UN Secretary-General’s “Panel of Eminent Persons on UN-Civil Society Relations”
John Clark is currently Project Director for the UN Secretary-General’s “Panel of Eminent Persons on UN-Civil Society Relations” – chaired by Fernando Henrique Cardoso, the former President of Brazil. From 2000-2003 he was Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Civil Society, London School of Economics (LSE), where he wrote a book about civil society and the globalisation debate (Worlds Apart: Civil Society and the Battle for Ethical Globalization, 2003, Earthscan, UK and Kumarian, US) and managed a research project, from which he edited a further book (Globalizing Civic Engagement, Earthscan, UK, 2003). In 2000 he served on a Task Force advising the UK Prime Minister about strategies for Africa. Previously, he worked for the World Bank from 1992–2000 as manager of the NGO and Civil Society Unit and Lead Social Development Specialist for East Asia. And prior to that he worked in NGOs. He is the author of three other books, including Democratizing Development: the Role of Voluntary Agencies (Earthscan and Kumarian, 1991).
His career has specialized in bridging the gap between grassroots organizations and official/government agencies in development. He worked 20 years with NGOs, mostly with Oxfam UK, where he initiated and built up their campaigning and policy advocacy activities. In 1992 he moved to the World Bank where, as manager of the NGO Unit, he had lead responsibility for relations with civil society globally; in this he emphasized expanding the Bank’s policy dialogue and operational engagement with civil society and in particular strengthening the Bank’s relations with civil society in developing countries. He pioneered the use of participatory approaches in poverty assessments, multi-stakeholder consultations in the Bank’s country-level strategic planning and other innovations. In 1998, in light of the Asian Economic Crisis, he shifted to become the Bank’s Lead Social Development Specialist for East Asia/Pacific.
Dudley Cocke, Director, Roadside Theater
Dudley Cocke, director of Roadside Theater, is a stage director, media producer, teacher, and writer. He is presently directing the jazz-bluegrass musical Betsy, and recently directed Zuni Meets Appalachia for the Smithsonian’s Museums of the American Indian in New York City and Washington, D.C. International work includes directing the company’s innovative performances in the Czech Republic (1992), directing Junebug/Jack for England’s Festival of the American South at London’s South Bank Center (1994), and conducting dance/story workshops for the 1996 Baltic Dance Festival in Poland. Under Mr. Cocke’s direction, Roadside has toured its original plays in 43 states and performed in big cities from London to Los Angeles. He has taught theater at Cornell University and the College of William and Mary, and often speaks and writes as an advocate for democratic cultural values. He co-edited, From the Ground Up, Grassroots Theater in Historical and Contemporary Perspective (Cornell University, 1993), and several of his speeches are collected in Voices From the Battlefront: Achieving Cultural Equity (Africa World Press, 1993). Red Fox /Second Hangin’, which he co-authored, is one of seven plays in Alternate Roots: New Plays from the Southern Theatre (Heinemann, 1994), and he recently co-edited Journeys Home: Revealing a Zuni-Appalachia Collaboration (Zuni A:shiwi Publishing and the University of New Mexico Press, 2002). Mr. Cocke received his B.A. from Washington & Lee University; his graduate work was conducted at Harvard University. He is the recipient of the 2002 Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities.
Rachel Cohen, U.S. Director, Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Rachel M. Cohen directs the Access to Essential Medicines Campaign of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the United States. Ms. Cohen represents MSF to U.S. government officials and agencies, pharmaceutical companies, non-governmental organizations, philanthropic foundations, and academic institutions on advocacy issues related to ensuring equitable access to effective and affordable medicines for people in developing countries. As a spokesperson for MSF's Access Campaign, Cohen has briefed members of the U.S. Congress, addressed a wide range of audiences—including industry executives, academics, the media, activists, medical and public health students, and the general public—and given numerous press interviews, including to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and CNN. Prior to joining MSF in 1999, Cohen served as the Director of Foundation and Corporate Giving at Housing Works, the largest minority-controlled AIDS service organization in the U.S., which serves homeless people with HIV/AIDS, and as Program Coordinator for the US+Cuba Medical Project, where she directed medical aid programs.
Julius Coles, MPA ’66, President Africare
Julius E. Coles, MPA ’66, is a 1964 graduate of Morehouse College where he majored in Politics. At WWS, he concentrated in Modernization and Development and did research on Honduras for his summer internship. He is currently the President of Africare in Washington, DC. Africare is the oldest and largest African-American private, charitable U.S. organization assisting Africa. Africare's self-help programs assist Africans in the broad areas of civil-society development and governance, food security and agriculture, health and HIV/AIDS, and emergency humanitarian response.
Prior to assuming this position in June 2002, Julius served as Director of the Andrew Young Center for International Affairs and Professor of Political Science at Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA.
Prior to this appointment in 1997, he was Director of Howard University's Bunche Center for International Affairs in Washington, DC. Previously, he was employed as a senior official in the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). In a twenty-eight- year career with USAID, he was the Mission Director for USAID Senegal and Swaziland. In addition, he served with USAID in Vietnam, Morocco, Liberia, Nepal and Washington, DC. He also studied at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, the Department of State's Foreign Service Institute, and the Federal Executive Institute.
He retired from the U.S. Government's Foreign Service in 1994 with the rank of Career Minister and was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Presidential Meritorious Service Award (1983-1986) and was decorated by the President of Senegal and made a Commandeur in the Order of Lion. Julius is also a member of the Woodrow Wilson School’s Advisory Council.
Sara Curran, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Sociology, Princeton University
Sara Curran is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Sociology at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1994. Curran researches internal migration in developing countries, family demography, environment and population, and gender. She is writing a book, Shifting Boundaries, Transforming Lives: Globalization, Gender and Family Dynamics in Thailand, which analyzes how migration and education transformed Thai society between 1984-2000. With a grant from the Mellon Foundation, she is collaborating with colleagues from ICRW and IPSR to research adolescent migration in Thailand. Curran recently edited a special issue of Ambio where contributors address population, consumption and environment research, especially the impact of human migrants upon coastal ecosystems.
Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, Founding Director, Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination; Lecturer, Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Wolfgang Danspeckgruber is a lecturer of public and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. His areas of interest include international relations with a special emphasis on foreign and security policy, international diplomacy, and issues of state and self-determination. His current research focuses on self-determination in global interdependence, security and secession problems in South Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and South Asia, and the conduct of related diplomacy. He is the founding director of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University, and the founder and chair of the Liechtenstein Colloquium on European and International Affairs in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, - a private diplomacy forum. Since 1989 Danspeckgruber has been teaching at Princeton University on issues of European Foreign and Security Politics, Central and Eastern Europe, self-determination, and the theory and practice of international diplomacy. His books include Self-Determination of Peoples - Communities, Nations, and States in Global Interdependence; Self-Determination and Self-Administration: A Sourcebook (edited with Sir Arthur Watts); The Iraqi Aggression against Kuwait (edited with Charles R.H. Tripp); and Emerging Dimensions of European Security Policy. Danspeckgruber has been involved in informal diplomacy in the Balkans and the Caucasus. He was a research fellow at Harvard University's Center for Science and International Affairs and at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. D. Laws, University of Linz, Austria; Ph.D. Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.
Denis Dragovic, Country Director, IRC-Iraq
Denis Dragovic has been in Iraq since June 2003 and was responsible for establishing IRC operations in Najaf and Karbala. He currently serves as the Country Director of IRC-Iraq. Denis, an Australian native, began his career as an engineer, working on projects in Singapore. After completing a Masters from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, he turned to development work, arriving in East Timor in early 2000 to coordinate The IRCs Shelter and Small business program there. He then took on the coordination of IRC operations in Southern Sudan until returning to Australia in 2002 to establish the ASEAN-Australia Development Cooperation Program for AusAID. Denis then went back to the field and has spent the last year establishing programs in Iraq covering health, environmental health, childrens programs and protection. The IRC-Iraq program now includes a dozen international and one hundred and fifty national staff providing assistance in restoring rural access to potable water, wast e collection in urban areas, rehabilitating health clinics, training health staff, child protection and awareness raising, support to displaced persons, and rehabilitating schools amongst other activities.
Christopher Eisgruber, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs, Director, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Christopher Eisgruber, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs, Director, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, is a former professor of law at New York University School of Law, Eisgruber’s areas of interest include the U.S. Constitution and religious freedom. At Princeton, he is jointly appointed in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values. His book, Constitutional Self-Government, was published by the Harvard University Press in 2001. Eisgruber's articles have appeared in numerous academic books and journals. In addition to his scholarly projects, Eisgruber has published in newspapers, including the The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, and he has testified before Congress and the New Jersey legislature regarding religious liberty. Eisgruber clerked for The Honorable Justice John Paul Stevens, United States Supreme Court from 1989-1990, and for The Honorable Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, from 1988-1989. M. Litt., Oxford University; J.D., University of Chicago Law School.
Ann Florini, MPA '83, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution
Ann Florini, MPA '83, is Senior Fellow in the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and director of the World Economic Forum’s Global Governance Initiative. From 1997 to 2002, she was Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She received her Ph.D. in political science from UCLA and a Master’s in Public Affairs from Princeton University. She has previously been associated with UCLA, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the United Nations Association of the USA. She is the author of The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World (Island Press, 2003). Her edited volume, The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society, was published in October 2000 by the Japan Center for International Exchange and the Carnegie Endowment. She is co-author of the monograph Secrets for Sale: How Commercial Satellite Imagery Will Change the World. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Foreign Policy, International Studies Quarterly, WorldLink, and International Security.
John Fonte, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for American Common Culture, Hudson Institute
John Fonte joined the Hudson Institute in March 1999 as a senior fellow and director of the Center for American Common Culture. Based in Washington D.C., the Center offers policy advice on civic education, citizenship, and issues concerning the interplay of national identity, multiculturalism, the assimilation of immigrants, global organizations, and the future of American liberal democracy.
Dr. Fonte has been a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute where he directed the Committee to Review National Standards under the chairmanship of Lynne V. Cheney. He also served as a senior researcher at the U.S. Department of Education and a program administrator at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). He is currently on the Board of the American Council for Trustees and Alumni (ACTA).
Fonte has testified before Congress on citizenship naturalization and on civil rights issues. He has served as a consultant for the Texas Education Agency, the Virginia Department of Education, the California Academic Standards Commission, the American Federation of Teachers, and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania. He was a member of the steering committee for the congressionally-mandated National Assessment for Education Progress (NAEP) which issued the “nation’s report card” on civics and government.
He served as principal advisor for CIVITAS: A Framework for Civic Education funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, and he was appointed by the general editor to write the chapter on The Federalist Papers. He has taught at the higher education and secondary school levels. He received his Ph.D. in world history from the University of Chicago, and his M.A. and B.A. in history from the University of Arizona.
Fonte’s articles and essays on citizenship, history, civic education, patriotism, assimilation, civil rights, global organizations, American sovereignty, and liberal democracy have appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Commentary, Orbis, National Review, Policy Review, American Enterprise, Transaction, Academic Questions, American Legion Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, San Diego Union-Tribune; as well as internationally, in Nativ (Israel), Perfiles Liberales (Mexico), Policy (Australia), Review (Australia), and the National Post (Canada).
He is co-editor of Education for America’s Role in World Affairs, (University Press) a book on civic and world affairs education used in universities and teacher training institutes. He has appeared on the Lou Dobbs News Hour on CNN, Voice of America, News Talk TV, the Armstrong Williams Show, Channel One and National Empowerment Television as well as numerous radio programs throughout the country including National Public Radio.
H.E. Ms. Rend Rahim Francke, Ambassador of Iraq to the United States, Founder, The Iraq Foundation
Rend Rahim Francke was selected by the Iraqi Governing Council to be Iraq's representative in Washington, DC.
Ambassador Francke is a native of Iraq. She is a founder of the Iraq Foundation and was its Executive Director from 1991. Under her management, the Foundation expanded its work to include three major Iraq-related projects with a total budget of $1.6 million in 2002.
Rend Rahim Francke has worked extensively with the Iraqi communities in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and northern Iraq. She has drafted policy papers on behalf of the Foundation and represented the Foundation with government and international institutions and non-governmental organizations. She has built partnerships and cooperative relations with several non-governmental organizations and research institutions.
Ms. Francke has done extensive research on Iraq, and has published essays and articles on Iraq, including a chapter titled The Iraqi Opposition in Iraq After the Gulf War, ZED Books, London 1994; Iraq: Race to the Finish Line in Middle East Insight; and The Iraqi Opposition and the Sanctions Issue in Middle East Report. Her op-ed articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Times and The Boston Globe. Mrs. Francke has testified on Iraq in the U.S. Congress and has participated as an analyst on Iraqi issues on national television and radio programs. She co-authored The Arab Shi'a: Forgotten Muslims, published by St. Martin's Press in 2000.
Ms. Francke holds degrees from Cambridge University and the Sorbonne.
Azizulla Gaziev, Visiting Scholar, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Azizulla Gaziev is a visiting scholar with the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. He is currently working on manuscripts on the first 10 years of Uzbek independence and the political regime that has resulted. He is also examining more generally the social and political problems that threaten peace and prosperity in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. Azizulla has an MA in International Policy Studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, CA. His professional career has included a wide variety of positions with diplomatic and human rights agencies. These posts have included: US Peace Corps Office in Tashkent; positions at the Indian Embassy in Tashkent and the US Embassy in Tashkent; in the US he has worked as a researcher and administrator at both the Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; as a Political Security Analyst at the office of the Japan International Cooperation Agency in Tashkent; and before coming to Princeton he was a Political Analyst and Field Researcher for the International Crisis Group’s Central Asia Project, which has offices in Kyrgyzstan, but whose projects also cover Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Azizulla has co-authored a number of reports on Central Asia and Uzbekistan for the International Crisis Group and has presented his research and findings at conferences in the US, Central Asia and Europe.
Daniel Glass, Founding Board President, LIFEbeat
Daniel Glass is the Founding Board President of LIFEbeat, the renowned AIDS advocacy and hands-on service organization that has provided financial assistance to people living with AIDS within the music community, referrals to doctors and local AIDS service organizations, professional advice for musicians with AIDS, and grants to direct service organizations nationwide. In addition, he also serves as the President of Artemis Records and is a Founding Board Member of the newly formed Dance Music Hall of Fame. Profiled as one of Crain’s New York Business "40 Under 40" success stories, Glass is a Vice Chair of the UJA-Federation of New York, which honored him as Music Visionary of the Year in 2002. Daniel Glass’ career in the music industry has been marked by such success stories as artists Billy Idol, Wilson Phillips, Sinead O’Connor, Jon Secada, Sister Hazel, Goldfinger, Reel Big Fish, Erykah Badu and now Khia, Kittie, Kurupt, Baha Men and Grammy Nominated Susan Tedeschi.
Richard A. Harris, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Walter Rand Institute of Public Affairs, Rutgers-Camden
Richard A. Harris received his B.A. from Duke University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches and writes in the areas of American Politics and Public Policy, with specializations in Business/Government Relations and Environmental Policy. In addition to publishing books on these topics with Duke University Press and Oxford University Press, Dr. Harris has received research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Brookings Institution. He also has received support for innovative teaching as well as the Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence at Rutgers-Camden. He currently serves as Director of the Senator Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs, a campus-wide institute for applied research and public service. His books include The Politics of Regulatory Change (Oxford), Coal Firms Under the New Regulation (Duke), and Remaking American Politics (Westview). Past winner of the APSA Jack Walker and Mary Parker Follett Awards.
Kevin Henry, MPA ’81, Advocacy Director, CARE
Kevin M. Henry, MPA ’81, is a 1978 graduate of Georgetown University where he majored in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Before entering WWS, he worked for InterAmerica Research Associates in Rosslyn, VA.
Kevin concentrated in Development Studies at WWS and did his summer internship at the UNDP mission in Ouagadougou, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and Lome, Togo.
Upon graduation, he joined CARE as Assistant Program Officer for Africa in NYC. He then became Assistant Director of the CARE office in Chad. His next assignment was Assistant Director of the CARE office in the Philippines. In 1989, he became Country Director of CARE’s office in Sri Lanka. In 1991, he returned to CARE in NYC to become Regional Manager for East Africa. In 1993, he became Special Assistant for Policy and Strategy when CARE moved its headquarters to Atlanta, GA. He then was named Senior Assistant to the President (Peter Bell, MPA ’64) in 1997. He then was named Assistant Secretary General of CARE. He assumed his current position of Advocacy Director of CARE in 2001.
Kevin is married to fellow WWS alum, Asma Khalid Henry, MPA ’82.
Stephen W. Jackson, MPA ’94 (Ph.D. ’03 Anthropology), Associate Director, Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, Social Science Research Council
Stephen W. Jackson, ’91-92, MPA ‘94, an Irish national, joined the Social Science Research Council in March 2003 as Associate Director of the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, with particular responsibility for programming related to African conflicts.
Before coming to SSRC, Stephen spent equal periods of his career working in academic centers focused on international humanitarian action and as a relief worker in some of the more violent complex political emergencies of the 1990s. Between 1998 and 2002, he was the founding Director of the International Famine Centre at the National University of Ireland, Cork, a centre established to focus disparate efforts within the University in a cross-disciplinary approach to the political dimensions of global hunger. The Centre undertook applied research, advocacy campaigning, training and consultancy, particularly concerning the dilemmas of humanitarian assistance in conflict zones. Stephen has written widely on this area and undertaken consultancies for a variety of multilateral and non-governmental actors, including the Irish Government (APSO), UNOCHA, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Care International, Save the Children, the Overseas Development Institute and Trócaire.
He began his career working as a political lobbyist in London between 1988 and 1991. As a relief worker, he worked for Catholic Relief Services in Somalia in 1992, during the extensive famine brought on by the Civil War. Subsequently, he was engaged in active relief work in Rwanda in 1993 and 1994, before moving, as Country Representative for Trócaire, to Angola where he lived between 1995 and 1996, fostering civil society development and grassroots political mobilization strategies.
Between 1997 and 2002, Stephen conducted anthropological fieldwork in the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, leading to a Ph.D. dissertation in Cultural Anthropology from Princeton University entitled "War Making: Uncertainty, Improvisation and Involution in the Kivu Provinces, DR Congo, 1997-2002." The research concerned local peoples interpretations of war, their survival strategies, and the linkage between local, national and regional levels of conflict. He also holds an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School, and a B.A. (Mod.) in Mathematical Sciences from Trinity College, Dublin. Stephen concentrated in Development Studies at WWS and did his summer internship with the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He then took a middle year out to work with Catholic Relief Services in Nairobi, Kenya. His present research interests include the political economy of war, global/local conflict linkages, principles and practice in humanitarian affairs, the political manipulation of ethnic identity, politico-ethnic violence, the postcolonial state, and regional conflict formations.
Amaney Jamal, Assistant Professor, Politics Department, Princeton University
Amaney Jamal joined the Politics Department at Princeton as an assistant professor in 2003; a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, she is currently conducting research on the acculturation and adaptation process on the Arab-American second generation in Detroit. The study dovetails nicely with CMD's thematic research priority on the immigrant second generation. So far, no detailed study of the situation of young Arab-Americans has been conducted. The topic is especially important in the aftermath of the tragedy of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent launching of the anti-terrorist campaign by the U.S. government. Jamal's research promises to fill that gap. She is working on a book manuscript titled Democratic Citizens in non-Democratic Nations: Civic and Associational Life in the Middle East.
Kristin Kalla, Director, Communities Responding to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Initiative and Director of HIV/AIDS Unit, CARE
Kristin Kalla provides leadership over the Communities Responding to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic (CORE) Initiative, a $50 million USAID project. Prior to her appointment over the USAID project, Kalla provided leadership for CARE's global HIV/AIDS response and activities - a portfolio reaching $120 million. With more than 13 years of experience, she is an expert on developing community-based multi-sectoral HIV/AIDS interventions, youth programming, communications and behavior change, workforce policy and training. Before coming to CARE, Kalla worked for UNICEF in Ethiopia where she established a $30 million multi-sectoral HIV/AIDS program with the Government of Ethiopia focusing on youth prevention, care & support for orphan s and vulnerable children, advocacy, capacity building, and the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT). She was a member of a task force led by the UN International Labor Organization (ILO) for establishing workforce policies related to HIV/AIDS; and a member of the World Bank Act Africa team for designing the $59 million World Bank HIV/AIDS Project in Ethiopia.
Prior to UNICEF, Kristin was a Technical Advisor at the Ministry of Health in Rwanda where she helped establish the Rwanda Center for Health Communications with USAID and the World Bank. She has also worked in post-conflict settings with Islamic Relief in Kosovo and Relief International in Tajikistan; and as a Program Officer with the World Health Organization's Global Tuberculosis Program in Geneva. As a consultant, Kristin worked for NGOs in Egypt, New York, and with the Inter-African Committee/Geneva where she developed materials on reproductive health, gender and harmful traditional practices.
Before entering the international development field, she was a reporter for Fortune and LIFE magazines; an advertising executive for Entertainment Weekly; a casting director for films and television; a public relations executive. Ms. Kalla, a Palestinian American is also fluent in English and French, and some conversational Arabic.
BA in Communication Theory, Feminist Theater and Video Production, UCSD; MA in African Studies/Medical Anthropology, UCLA; MPH in Maternal and Child Health, UCLA
Email: info@coreinitiative.org
Stanley N. Katz, Lecturer with rank of Professor of Public and International Affairs, Faculty Chair, Undergraduate Program, Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Stanley N. Katz is president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The author and editor of numerous books and articles, including Mobilizing for Peace: Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Israel/Palestine (2002), he is a noted authority on American legal and constitutional history, and on nonprofit/nongovernmental organizations. He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians and the American Society for Legal History, and as vice president of the American Historical Association. He is a trustee of the Newberry Library, the Copyright Clearance Center and the Social Science Research Council as well as other nonprofit organizations. Katz is a member of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, the American Antiquarian Society, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Society of American Historians. Ph.D. Harvard University.
Sayyed Nadeem Kazmi, Head, International Development, Al-Khoei Foundation, London; Editor, Dialogue
Sayyed Nadeem Kazmi is the Senior Consultant in humanitarian affairs and Head of International Development at Al-Khoei Foundation. He is also the main representative to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations in New York and represents interests of Al-Khoei Foundation internationally. Kazmi is the editor of the international current affairs Islamic monthly, Dialogue.
Kazmi’s previous experience includes conducting humanitarian assessment of the Marshlands of southern Iraq and Iran, raising awareness of plight of indigenous Marsh Arab refugees and IDPs at international level; representing Marsh Arab case at UN and European Parliament level; and lobbying successfully for inclusion of Marsh Arabs in key political resolutions. He has also conducted humanitarian and human rights assessments in Former Yugoslavia and Kashmir.
Among his professional responsibilities, Kazmi is an adviser to HRH Prince El-Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, an adviser to Amnesty International UK Ethnic Minorities Working Group, UK; a member of the UN Committee of NGOS – CONGO; a member of Royal Institute for International Affairs; and Director of the American Islamic Congress in Boston. Since 1995, he has also been an occasional broadcaster for BBC, presenting Thought for the Day on Radio 4 and Pause for Thought on BBC World Service.
Kazmi has published widely and acts as a contributor to newspapers, magazines and periodicals, including The Guardian, Daily Jang (Urdu), al-Noor International (Arabic), The Diplomat, Hong Kong Muslim Herald, Arkansas Democrat Gazette, and The Bridge (online). Some of his recent articles include “Antisemitism and Antimuslimism in the Dialogue among Civilizations” (ISESCO, Rabat, 2000); “The Impact of Sanctions on Iraq” (Orbit, VSO – Voluntary Service Overseas magazine, 1998); “A Critique of President Bush’s Educational Outreach to Muslims” (The Conflict, Security and Development Group Bulletin, Issue No 14, UK, May 2002); “Only Muslims can Delegitimize Bin Ladin” (The Tablet weekly, UK, November 2001); “The World Conference Against Racism: A Critical View” (Vol VII, SOAS, University of London, Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, 2002).
Mr. Kazmi speaks English, Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi, basic Farsi, nominal Arabic and nominal German. He holds an LLB Law degree from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Susan Koscis, Director of Communications, Search for Common Ground
Susan Koscis is the Director of Communications at Search for Common Ground. Susan joined SCG in 1994, and has held positions as Vice President of Operations, Vice President of Arts & Culture, and Director of the Common Ground Film Festival. Prior to joining SCG, Susan held positions at CBS Records in New York; the New York City Opera; the San Francisco Opera; and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities. She holds an MA in Counseling Psychology from George Washington University, and a B.Mus.Ed. from the Hartt College of Music at the Univ. of Hartford.
Smitu Kothari, Visiting Lecturer of Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Smitu Kothari is a scholar-activist and founder-member of Lokayan, an Indian action-research center that promotes active echange between non-party political formations and concerned scholars and other citizens from India and the rest of the world. He also co-edits the Lokayan Bulletin and is on the editorial boards of Development and Ecologist. He has published extensively on critiques of contemporary economic and cultural development, the relationship of nature, culture and democracy, developmental displacement and social movements. He has been a visiting professor at Cornell and Princeton Universities and is currently teaching WWS 572b "Topics in Development: Social Movements and Social Change" at WWS.
Craig Lafferty, President and CEO, United Way of Greater Mercer County
Craig Lafferty is the President/CEO for the United Way of Greater Mercer County, located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, which was the result of the merger of Delaware Valley United Way and United Way of Princeton Area Communities in 1994. Mr. Lafferty was selected to head this organization after a nationwide search was conducted to find the leadership need to bring two organizations together to serve the community. During his tenure as President and CEO for the United Way of Greater Mercer County he has lead his organization to achieve significant campaign results. From 1994 to 2001, campaign growth was in excess of 66%. Mr. Lafferty has positioned the United Way in Mercer County as the lead organization for human services planning and community impact. In 1982, Mr. Lafferty began his career with the United Way. His first professional assignment was in Richmond, Virginia, working with the volunteer citizen review process, responsible for allocating financial support to human service programs. He continued in Richmond as a Senior Vice President for Human Services and Community Resources until 1990. His United Way career then took him to Danbury, Connecticut where he served as the President and Chief Professional Officer for the United Way of Northern Fairfield County.
Mr. Lafferty also is an active member of the following organizations and councils:
United Way of America Metro 2 - 4 CEO Council - Co-Chairman
United Ways of Metro New York CEO Council – Chairman
United Ways of New Jersey CEO Association - Chairman
FEMA - State Committee - Chairman
FEMA - Mercer County Local Board - Chairman
Mercer County Board of Social Services - Wheels to Success Committee-Member
Mercer County Human Services Advisory Council - Member
Homeless Resource Advisory Committee - Chairman
Priority Population Needs Assessment Committee - Chairman
Bylaws Committee - Chairman
Child Care Planning - Member
Disaster Relief Assistance Committee - Member
Mercer County Alliance to End Homeless - Member
City of Trenton Youth Advocacy Cabinet/Operations Council - Member
City of Trenton Continuum of Care Council - Member
Trenton Housing Authority – Community Development Corporation - Member
During his United Way career, Mr. Lafferty has also helped to create programs to respond to the needs of the homeless, the hungry, children and families in crisis, persons living with AIDS, violence prevention in the school, and to create economic development opportunities. Mr. Lafferty is leading a local effort to construct housing for mentally-ill chronically homeless single men and women in Trenton. Working with the City of Trenton, Mercer County Board of Social Services, Greater Trenton Behavioral Health Care, and The Salvation Army, the United Way of Greater Mercer County has secured funding from the State of New Jersey to construct a 20-bed facility in downtown Trenton. The anticipated opening date for the residential unit is December 2004. In late 2001, Mr. Lafferty working with his colleagues in New Jersey helped to establish the New Jersey Family Advocate Program to assist families impacted by the terrible events of September 11, 2001. This program provided seamless and consistent service to families and loved-ones dealing with over-whelming social service network and governmental response. Family Advocates were assigned to work with individual families to help navigate the complex and daunting task for identifying and qualifying for assistance and benefits. The United Ways of New Jersey was named by Governor James McGreevey to administer this project because of the local United Ways' capacity to coordinate resources and respond in a sensitive and timely manner. Mr. Lafferty has been in the human services field for the past 33 years. Beginning his career working with juvenile offenders in Tampa, Florida in 1970. During his eleven years in youth work, Mr. Lafferty helped to create one of the first multiservice centers for children in the nation while working in Hillsborough County, Florida. His work with other community leaders and county officials resulted in day treatment and residential programming for emotionally disturbed children and socially maladjusted youth. He is an active member of the Rotary Club of Trenton and is a member and past-Deacon of First Presbyterian Church in Hamilton Square. His volunteer activities include The Salvation Army homeless feeding program and Interfaith Hospitality Network of Mercer County for homeless families. He resides in Hamilton Square, New Jersey with his wife Anita and their two children Sarah and Ben.
Sue Lautze, MPA ’95, Director, Livelihoods Initiatives Program, Feinstein International Famine Center, Tufts University
Sue Lautze, MPA ’95, is a 1988 graduate of the University of California at Davis where she majored in Agriculture and Managerial Economics. She won the M.J. Gilhooly Award for Outstanding Woman Graduate.
Before entering WWS, Sue worked first as Editor of Translations for the Ministry of Culture in Beijing, China. She then spent some time as a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist for the UN World Food Program in Beijing. She then spent six months as an Emergency Information Specialist with the UN World Food Program in Khartoum, Sudan and in Nairobi, Kenya. She then spent two years as Chief, Assessment and Reporting Division, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, U.S. Agency for International Development, Khartoum, Sudan.
Sue concentrated in Development Studies at WWS and also received a Certificate in Demography. She did her summer internship with the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, U.S. Agency for International Development, Khartoum, Sudan, where she acted as Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting Specialist. She also did a work-study with the World Bank in Washington, DC.
Upon graduation, Sue formed her own consulting firm, Lautze and Associates in Napa, CA. In 1996, she joined the Feinstein International Famine Center at Tufts University, Medford, MA, as Director, Livelihoods Initiatives Program. In 2000, she assumed her current position there as Director of Overseas Operations. She taught a Policy Workshop on “Humanitarian Governance: Managing Disaster Risks and Vulnerabilities” at WWS in the fall of 2002.
Nancy Lindborg, Execuive Vice President, Mercy Corps
Nancy E. Lindborg, Mercy Corps' Executive Vice President, leads Mercy Corps’ strategic planning, policy and program development, and emergency response in areas such as Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, North Korea and Central Asia. Lindborg served from 2000-2003 as chair of the Sphere Management Committee, an international initiative to improve the effectiveness and accountability of NGOs. Lindborg also served as co-chair of the InterAction Disaster Response Committee from 1998-2002, and she is currently a member of the CSIS-AUSA Blue Ribbon Commission on Post-Conflict Reconstruction.Prior to joining Mercy Corps, Lindborg managed economic development programs in post-Soviet Central Asia and worked in the private sector as a public policy consultant in Chicago and San Francisco. She graduated with honors from Stanford University in 1981 with a B.A. in English Literature. She also holds an M.A. in English Literature from Stanford and an M.A. in Public Administration/International Development from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
James Love, MA '85, Director, Consumer Project on Technology, Center for Study of Responsive Law
James Love, MA '85, has worked for the Center for Study of Responsive Law since 1990, and since 1995 is the Director of the Consumer Project on Technology. Information about CPTech is on the web at http://www.cptech.org. Mr. Love is an advisor on intellectual property policies to a number of national governments, international and regional intergovernmental organizations, public health NGOs, and private sector pharmaceutical companies. Mr. Love is the US co-chair of the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Working Group on Intellectual Property, a member of the MSF Working Group on Intellectual Property and the MSF Neglected Disease Group, President of Essential Inventions, Inc. and a former member of the World Business Council on Sustainable Development, Working Group on Access to Human Genetic Resources. Mr. Love was previously Senior Economist for the Frank Russell Company, a Lecturer at Rutgers University, and a researcher on international finance at Princeton University. Mr. Love received a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and a Masters in Public Affairs from the Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
William Maley, Professor and Foundation Director, Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at the Australian National University
Dr. William Maley is Professor and Foundation Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at the Australian National University. He taught for many years in the School of Politics, University College, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, and has served as a Visiting Professor at the Russian Diplomatic Academy, a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde, and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Refugee Studies Programme at Oxford University. He is author of 'The Afghanistan Wars' (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), edited 'Fundamentalism Reborn? Afghanistan and the Taliban' (New York: New York University Press, 1998, 2001), and recently co-edited 'From Civil Strife to Civil Society: Civil and Military Responsibilities in Disrupted States'(Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2003). Professor Maley is Chair of the Refugee Council of Australia, Chairman of the ACT Division of the Australian Red Cross, a member of the Australian Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, and a Member of the Order of Australia.
Naisaidet Mason, Senior Adviser Human Rights and Advocacy, Office of Director, HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization
Naisiadet Mason is the Human Rights/Advocacy/Community Involvement Adviser on HIV/AIDS and the 3 x 5 Initiative at the World Health Organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. Previously, Naisiadet was the Director of International Programs with National Association of People with AIDS in Washington DC, a leading national NGO that advocates on behalf of people living with HIV/AIDS.
Naisiadet’s career in the AIDS arena started in 1992 several years after she was diagnosed HIV+. A native of Kenya, Naisiadet together with other women, founded Women Fighting AIDS in Kenya (WOFAK), to provide women and their families with support services and raise awareness around HIV/AIDS. She was also the vice president of Society for Women and AIDS in Africa, a Pan African regional NGO based in Dakar, Senegal, that advocates on behalf of women and children within the family context affected by AIDS, and was among the women who founded SWAK the Kenya chapter.
In 1997, Naisiadet travelled to the US in search of ARV treatment as her health had begun to deteriorate. Once on treatment, Naisiadet’s health improved tremendously allowing her to pursue her Bachelor’s and Masters degrees in Public Health both acquired at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health, while at the same time working with the Minneapolis Urban League as the HIV/AIDS Services Program Manager.
Naisiadet is a Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow.
Elaine Michetti, Partnership Development Specialist, United Nations Volunteers
Elaine Michetti is a Partnership Development Specialist with the United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV). Based in New York at UNV’s Representation Office for North America, she leads the development of partnerships between UNV and North American entities and serves as UNV’s liaison to a wide variety of UN agencies and programmes.
Prior to joining UNV, she served as an Advocacy Officer in UNICEF’s London office where she managed a campaign to combat child exploitation. She has held several positions in the non-governmental (NGO) sector including with Amnesty International USA as Deputy Regional Director in Los Angeles and as Chair of Amnesty’s Legal Support Network.
Prior to her work in the NGO sector, Elaine worked in the private sector for seven years as a practicing attorney.
Elaine obtained a Juris Doctor degree from Boston University School of Law in 1991 and recently has completed coursework at the London School of Economics. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of California Santa Barbara.
Sasa Olessi Montaño, Director, Pace Center for Community Service
Sasa Olessi Montaño came to Princeton in July 2001 to be the first Director of the Pace Center for Community Service. Her task was to develop the vision for the Pace Center. During her first year as director, she spearheaded a strategic planning process for the Pace Center which involved the input of the many constituencies that the Pace Center serves. The process resulted in the formulation of a mission statement, clearly defined strategic values and priorities, and programmatic goals to be implemented over the course of the next few years. The Pace Center began its first full year of programming in 2002 geared toward both raising the visibility of service, as well as institutionalizing its importance as part of the broader educational mission here at Princeton. Sasa is extremely committed and passionate about civic engagement and diversity issues. Currently she serves on 11 community boards. In this role, she has served as a “consultant” both in and out of the Board room. Before she came to Princeton, she spent 12 years in the non-profit sector, most recently as the Executive Director of the Trenton YWCA. She also started her own program, Latinas Unidas, which serves Latina women and their families in Trenton. She holds an AB degree from Bryn Mawr College, and an MA from Johns Hopkins University.
Vasuki Nesiah, Senior Associate, International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)
Vasuki Nesiah heads up the ICTJ's work in South Africa, Ghana, and Sri Lanka. She also leads the Center's work on gender and non-state actors in transitional justice, and co-leads the project on Innovations in Justice. Originally from Sri Lanka, Ms. Nesiah joined the ICTJ from a teaching fellowship with the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School. She recently completed her doctorate in public international law at Harvard Law School, where she also received her J.D. with honors. She has published and lectured in international and comparative law, feminist theory, law and development, postcolonial studies, constitutionalism, and governance in plural societies. She holds a B.A. in philosophy and political science from Cornell University, where she graduated with distinctions in all subjects. She was also a visiting student of philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University.
Christina H. Paxson, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Christina H. Paxson is Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. Her fields of interest are economic development, applied microeconomics, and health. Her research in development economics has been concerned with saving and consumption behavior, the consequences of demographic change for saving and growth, and the measurement of poverty and inequality. She is currently researching income gradients in children's health outcomes, income inequality and mortality, racial differences in health outcomes, and the relationship between economic status and child abuse. Ph.D. Columbia University. Christina Paxson directs the Center for Health and Wellbeing. She is affiliated with the Department of Economics, the Research Program in Development Studies, and the Office of Population Research.
Deborah N. Pearlstein, Director, U.S. Law and Security Program, Human Rights First; Visiting Fellow, Center for Democracy Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford University
Deborah Pearlstein of Human Rights First. Director of the U.S. Law and Security Program at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, and a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. As Director, Deborah leads the Lawyers Committee's efforts in research, litigation, and advocacy related to U.S. counterterrorism and national security policies.
Andrew Pugh, MPA ’91, Advocacy Coordinator, CARE
Andrew T. Pugh, ’87-88, MPA ’91, is a 15-year veteran of CARE USA, the leading relief and development organization. For the last eight years, he has served as Director of Policy and Advocacy, managing CARE’s policy agenda related to Sudan, HIV/AIDS, landmines, and many other topics. He conceived, funded, and managed a new CARE International office in New York for three years. He oversaw the training of 600 staff over three years. The number of CARE country offices pursuing advocacy has increased from 3 to 23 during that period.
In the early 1990s, he directed and managed CARE's programs in West Africa. His other overseas assignments included Sudan, Togo and Niger, as well as short term work in Armenia. Iraq and Russia. Before joining CARE he worked for Citibank in Turkey and Sudan.
Andy is a 1982 graduate of Harvard University where he majored in Government with a special emphasis on Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Politics. Before entering WWS, he worked for Citibank in Turkey and Sudan for three years.
Andy concentrated in Development Studies at WWS. He did both a summer internship as well as two years out working for CARE in NYC as Deputy Regional Manager for Africa.
Upon graduation, Andy rejoined CARE as Team Leader for CARE’s Program in Iraq. He then worked as CARE’s Deputy Country Director in Togo and Niger. In 1993, Andy became Regional Manager for West Africa at CARE headquarters in Atlanta, GA. In 1996, he assumed his current position as Director of Policy and Advocacy.
Jeremy Rabkin, Professor of Government, Cornell University
Jeremy Rabkin is a professor of Government at Cornell University where he teaches courses on international law and American constitutional history. He received his BA from Cornell and his PhD (in political science) from Harvard University. He has written widely on tensions between American ideas of constitutional government and the emerging pattern of international law. His book, Law Without Nations? Why Constitutional Government requires Sovereign States, will be published by Princeton Press later this year.
Graeme Robertson, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Columbia University
Graeme Robertson is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at Columbia University. He received his B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University, and his M.A. in Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies from Harvard University. He is the author of "Leading Labor: Unions, Politics and Protest in New Democracies" (Comparative Politics, forthcoming) and, with Alfred Stepan, of "An "Arab" More than "Muslim" Electoral Gap" (Journal of Democracy, July 2003).
His dissertation investigates the implications for democratic development of emerging institutions of interest articulation and representation in new democracies. Focusing on Russia, he presents a new theoretical perspective on patterns of worker protest and passivity during Russia’s economic crisis of the last decade. His work integrates the quantitative analysis of a comprehensive new database of protest events with detailed qualitative case research to link institutional features of the political economy to the capacity of regional elites to manipulate levels of strike activity, as part of a bargaining process with Federal authorities. Combining these elements, he shows how elite actors are able to manipulate popular protest in an environment, typical of new democracies, in which institutional constraints on the regional executives are weak. His research suggests that in such circumstances, the prospects for the emergence of representative liberal democracy are dim.
This research is part of a broader agenda that looks at the development of interest representation after the establishment of formal electoral institutions in the post-Communist states and elsewhere. In particular, he is interested in how institutions and practices inherited from previous regimes evolve and affect the development of new political and economic systems.
When not interviewing labor leaders in Siberia and the Far East, he supports other lost causes, such as the Scottish soccer team and the Boston Red Sox, and is an enthusiastic distance runner.
F. Michael Scherer, Aetna Professor Emeritus, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
F. Michael Scherer is Aetna Professor Emeritus at the Kennedy School of Government, and has been a visiting professor at Princeton University. His research specialties are industrial economics and the economics of technological change. His current research is on the economics of musical composition between the years 1650 and 1900. Scherer has taught at several universities including Northwestern, Swarthmore College and the University of Michigan. He was chief economist at the Federal Trade Commission from 1974-76. Scherer earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University and an honorary doctorate from the University of Hohenheim, Germany. He has authored several books including International High-Technology Competition; Competition Policies for an Integrated World Economy; Mergers, Sell-offs, and Economic Efficiency (with David J. Ravenscraft); and New Perspectives on Economic Growth and Technological Innovation. He is past president of the Industrial Organization Society and the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society, past vice president of the American Economic Association and the Southern Economic Association, and a member of the Journal of Economic Literature board of editors.
Brigadier General Jeffrey J. Schloesser, Assistant Division Commander, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)
Brigadier General Jeffrey J. Schloesser assumed duty as Assistant Division Commander for Support of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) in June 2003. His previous tours as a general officer include Deputy Director, J-5 / Chief of Strategic Planning, War on Terrorism, Joint Staff from 2001-2003, and Chief, Office of Military Cooperation, Kuwait, from 2000-2001.
General Schloesser was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers from Officer Candidate School in 1977. He led engineer, aviation, and Special Operations aviation units from platoon to brigade level. As a field grade officer he commanded the 271st Aviation Company / B-2/501st Aviation (Medium Helicopter) at Camp Humphreys, Korea, from 1988-89; 2nd Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Battalion, Fort Campbell, Ky., from 1994-96; 1st Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Battalion, Fort Campbell, from 1997-98; and 12th Aviation Brigade, V Corps, Wiesbaden, Germany, from 1998-2000. During this time, he commanded task forces deployed to Operation Uphold Democracy, Haiti (1994); Task Force Hawk, Operation Allied Force, Albania, 1999; and Task Force Falcon and Operation Joint Guard II, Kosovo, 1999.
General Schloesser served accompanied tours in Germany (two), Korea, Jordan, and Kuwait. He served in the Department of State as a Politico-Military Officer; as Battalion S-3 in the 2-501st Aviation Battalion, Camp Humprheys, Korea; and as a strategist and Executive Officer within Strategic Plans and Policy Division, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, Army Staff.
Graduating from the University of Kansas in 1976, General Schloesser also earned a Master of Foreign Service degree from Georgetown University. He was a National Security Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He speaks Arabic and French.
His awards and decorations include two awards of the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal (Four Oak Leaf Clusters), the Joint Service Commendation Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster), the Army Commendation Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster), the Kosovo Campaign Medal (with star), the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (with star), and the NATO medal. He is a Senior Army Aviator, and has earned the Parachutist Badge, Air Assault Badge, the Army Staff Badge and the Joint Staff Badge.
Pernessa C. Seele, Founder and CEO, The Balm in Gilead, Inc.
Pernessa Seele is a pioneer in mobilizing and educating Black churches to become engaged in the fight against AIDS. She is a consultant to Columbia University School of Public Health and is an adjunct professor of Ethics & AIDS at New York Theological Seminary. Ms. Seele has worked with the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Memorial Sloan-Kettering and Rockefeller University. She conceived and implemented such innovative efforts as the Black Church Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS, a national AIDS awareness program designed specifically for the African-American community which has engaged over 5,000 churches throughout the U.S. Ms. Seele is also the driving force behind The Black Clergy Declaration of War Against HIV and AIDS which was signed by the leaders of every Black Church denomination at a White House ceremony in 1995.
Pernessa Seele founded The Balm In Gilead, Inc. in 1989, a non-profit organization whose mission is to mobilize churches to become centers of compassion, education and prevention in the struggle against the devastation of HIV/AIDS in the Black community. The Balm In Gileads pioneering achievements have enabled thousands of churches across 17 denominations to become leaders in preventing HIV by providing comprehensive educational programs for the community and offering compassionate support to those affected by HIV and AIDS.
Ms. Seele is the recipient of numerous congressional citations, honors and awards, including a Black Congressional Caucus Award in 2000. The African American AIDS Policy and Training Institute selected Ms. Seele as a 2001 Hero in the Struggle.
M.S. Immunology, Atlanta University; B.S. Degree of Biology, Clarke College
Frances Seymour, MPA '86, Program Director, Institutions and Governance, World Resources Institute
Frances Seymour, MPA '86, is the Director of WRI's Institutions and Governance Program. She is currently guiding the launch of the Access Initiative, a global collaboration to promote respect for environmental procedural rights. She also directs projects on international financial flows and institutions such as the World Bank, and sustainable development challenges in Southeast Asia.
Prior to joining WRI, she served as Director of Development Assistance Policy at World Wildlife Fund, and spent five years in Indonesia with the Ford Foundation. She serves on the board of the International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development as well as on advisory committees for Human Rights Watch - Asia and the University of North Carolina University Center for International Studies. She holds a masters degree from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and a B.S. in Zoology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School, Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
Anne-Marie Slaughter is dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She is also president of the American Society of International Law. Prior to becoming dean, she was the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign and Comparative Law and director of graduate and international legal studies at Harvard Law School. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Dean Slaughter writes and lectures widely on international law and foreign policy issues. She has written over fifty articles and edited or written four books, on subjects such as the effectiveness of international courts and tribunals, the legal dimensions of the war on terrorism, building global democracy, international law and international relations theory, and compliance with international rules. Her article “The Real New World Order,” originally published in the 75th anniversary issue of Foreign Affairs, is now widely taught in colleges and universities. Her book on that same subject -- global governance through networks of national government officials – is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.
In the summer of 2000, Dean Slaughter delivered a series of lectures on international law and international relations as part of the millennial lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law. She has been a frequent media commentator and op-ed contributor on international tribunals, terrorism, and international law. Recent publications include: “An International Constitutional Moment” (with William Burke-White), 43 Harvard International Law Journal 1 (2002); Legalization and World Politics, with Judith Goldstein, Miles Kahler, and Robert O.Keohane, co-editors (2001); “Building Global Democracy,” 1 Chicago Journal of International Law 223 (2000); “Judicial Globalization,” 40 Virginia Journal of International Law 1103 (2000); “Plaintiff’s Diplomacy” (with David Bosco), 79 Foreign Affairs 102 (2000); and “Governing the Global Economy Through Government Networks” in The Role of Law in International Politics 177 (Michael Byers, ed., 2000).
Dean Slaughter received her B.A. from Princeton University, an M. Phil and D. Phil from Oxford University in international relations, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Before moving to Harvard Law School, she was professor of law and international relations at the University of Chicago Law School, from 1989-1994. She is married to Andrew Moravcsik, Professor of Government at Harvard University; they have two sons aged four and six.
Peter Spiro, Professor of Law, Hofstra University School of Law
Peter Spiro of the Hofstra Law School. Professor Spiro’s research interests include immigration and international law. He is an internationally recognized authority on dual citizenship, on the interaction of federal states with the international system, and on the role of non-governmental organizations in international institutions.
Barbara Stapleton, Advocacy and Policy Coordinator, Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief
Barbara Stapleton is currently the Advocacy and Policy Coordinator for the Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief (ACBAR) and has been based in Kabul since January 2003. She has an extensive background in communications, advocacy, human rights and humanitarian assistance. Born in the UK, with a BA from the School of Oriental and Asian Studies in London and an LLM from the University of Essex, Barbara began her career on the Thai-Cambodian border in 1981. She went on to work around the world in Burma, Iraqi and Iranian Kurdistan, Eritrea, Kashmir and Afghanistan for such diverse organizations as Penal Reform International, International Medical Relief, Amnesty International, Catholic Relief Services, Iraqi Civilian Aid, the EC and the Parliamentary Human Rights Group. Before coming to ACBAR, Barbara acted as Advocacy officer for the British Agencies Afghanistan Group (BAAG) developing BAAG’s advocacy policy in the UK and US. She has written, directed and reported on human rights and humanitarian needs in these and other countries for the BBC radio and television.
Mark J. Stern, Professor of Social Welfare and History, University of Pennsylvania
Mark J. Stern, Ph.D., is a professor of social work and history at the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches social policy and racism in the School, directs the urban studies program, and conducts research on the history of poverty and welfare and the role of arts and cultural institutions in urban communities.
Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Vice President, External Affairs, Human Health--Europe, Middle East & Africa, Merck & Co., Inc.
Jeffrey L. Sturchio is Vice President, External Affairs, Human Health—Europe, Middle East and Africa at Merck and Co., Inc., in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. He joined Merck in 1989, and is now responsible for the development, coordination, and implementation of a range of health policy and communications initiatives for the Europe, Middle East & Africa region. He has been centrally involved in Merck’s participation in the UN/Industry Accelerating Access Initiative to help improve HIV/AIDS care and treatment in the developing world, and he is a member of the private sector delegation on the board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria. Sturchio received an A.B. in history (1973) from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania (1981). Sturchio’s publications include Chemistry in America, 1876-1976: Historical Indicators (Reidel, 1985; paperback edition, 1988), written with A. Thackray, P. T. Carroll, and R. F. Bud; Values and Visions: A Merck Century (Merck and Co., Inc., 1991); “Pharmaceutical firms and the transition to biotechnology: a study in strategic innovation” (with L. Galambos), Business History Review 72 (Summer 1998): 250-278; “Against: Direct to consumer advertising is medicalising normal human experience” (with S. Bonaccorso), British Medical Journal 324 (13 April 2002): 910-911; and “Successful public-private partnerships in global health: lessons from the MECTIZAN Donation Program,” (with B. Colatrella), in The Economics of Essential Medicines, ed. by B. Granville (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2002).
Daniel Tichenor, Associate Professor, Political Science, Rutgers-New Brunswick
Daniel Tichenor is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. His recent book, Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America (2002) received the American Political Science Association’s 2003 Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book in American national policy. He also received the 2003 Jack Walker Prize for an article on organized interests and American political development. His research interests include the American presidency, Congress, social movements, interest groups, immigration and citizenship politics, and public policy. He has been a Research Fellow in Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution, the Abba P. Schwartz Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, and a Faculty Fellow of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is a recipient of the Emerging Scholar Award of APSA’s Political Organizations and Parties Section. He is presently working on a book-length analysis of the dynamics of American interest group politics over time, titled A Question of Representational Bias (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
Janet Weber-McCarthy, Executive Director, Hands-on Helpers; President, Mercer County Directors of Volunteers in Agencies
Janet Weber-McCarthy, Hands On Helpers' executive director since 2001, has an extensive professional background in nonprofit management. Previously, she served as Executive Director of the Polk County (FL) Chapter of the American Red Cross and, more recently, as Vice President of Gift Planning and Major Gifts for United Way of Greater Mercer County. A certified fundraising executive (CFRE), she brings in-depth fundraising, organization management, and long-range planning skills to her position at Hands On Helpers.
Over the past twenty years, Janet has volunteered for a variety of causes, including domestic violence prevention programs, state level disaster response and recovery teams, and on crisis intervention hotlines. Her Board experience includes leadership positions with the Florida District VII HIV/AIDS Consortium, several American Red Cross Advisory Boards, the largest Rotary Club in Central Florida and the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault.
Janet is a graduate of the State University of New York at Albany and the current President of Mercer County DOVIA (Directors of Volunteers in Agencies), a networking organization for people who lead and manage volunteers.
Janet and her husband live in Hillsborough, NJ with their three children.
Frederick Wherry, MPA '00, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, Princeton University; Co-author, Do Transnational Organizations Promote Civil and Political Liberties: Cross-National Evidence from Southeast Asia, 1978-2000
Frederick Wherry, MPA '00, is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University and a graduate of the masters program in public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Before starting his graduate studies, Frederick worked with a consortium of NGOs in the northeast of Thailand as a Luce Scholar and in South Africa’s NGO scene through the support of the John Motley Morehead Foundation. During his masters program, Frederick worked as a consultant with the World Bank in the East Asia and Pacific Region, where he acted as the project manager (and one of the principal authors) for the East Asia Anti-Corruption Handbook. As a sociology graduate student, Frederick has worked with Sara Curran to write a working paper on how international organizations promote civil and political liberties in Southeast Asia. And in his dissertation research, Frederick has touched on how NGOs affect local economic development. His dissertation, Making Culture Work: Handicraft Villages in the Global Economy, explores, in part, the role of nongovernmental agencies in supporting village artisans who have become exporting entrepreneurs. Frederick conducted his dissertation field research in Thailand and Costa Rica. In August 2004 he will embark on a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, where he will teach in Penn’s sociology program.
Andrew Wilder, Director, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
Andrew Wilder was born in Pakistan and has spent more than 30 years living, studying and working in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has a BSFS degree from Georgetown University and MALD and Ph.D. degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Dr. Wilder is the Director of the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), Afghanistan’s only independent policy research institution. Prior to establishing AREU in January 2002, he served as the Director of Save the Children’s Pakistan/Afghanistan Field Office for six years. From 1989-92 he was the Coordinator of the International Rescue Committee’s cross-border programs in Afghanistan, and from 1986-7 started up Mercy Corps’ Afghan assistance program in Balochistan, Pakistan, and in southwest Afghanistan. Dr. Wilder is the author of The Pakistani Voter (Oxford University Press, 1999), a co-author of A Guide to Government in Afghanistan (AREU, 2004) and authored several book chapters and journal articles relating to politics in Pakistan and Afghanistan.