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Scott Barrett is associate professor of economics at the London Business School. He is a
graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of British Columbia and London School of Economics. He has written a number of papers on international cooperation, particularly relat-ing to
environmental protection, and received the Erik Kempe Prize for this work. He has also advised a number of international organizations on treaty negotiations, and was a lead author of the second assessment report by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Nancy Birdsall is senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, where she directs the economics programme. She was executive vice president of the Inter-American Development Bank from 1993 until 1998, and is the author of numerous publications on economic devel-opment. Her
most recent work is on the relationship between income distri-bution and growth. Birdsall holds an M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a doctorate in
economics from Yale University. Richard A. Cash, M.D., M.P.H., is a fellow at the Harvard Institute for Inter-national
Development and senior lecturer in the Department of Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He was one of the developers of oral rehydration therapy in Bangladesh and helped conduct
the first clinical trials of this therapy. He has continued to pursue his inter-est in infectious diseases in developing countries, directing an applied research programme that has focused on capacity strengthening, the
role of research in policy development and most recently on childhood diseases and on ethical issues in international health research. Lincoln C. Chen, M.D., is vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation and oversees its international programmes in health, population, education, agri-culture and the
environment. Before joining the foundation in 1997, Chen was Taro Takemi Professor of International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he served as chair of the Department of Population and
International Health. At Harvard University he was director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. He has written extensively on health and development policies. Lisa D. Cook is research associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development and Center for International Development at Harvard University. Her
current research interests include emerging markets, financial institutions and markets (in Africa, Russia and Central and Eastern Europe) and macroeconomic policy in transition and developing economies. She recently
served as an economic adviser to the government of Rwanda. She is the author of a number of publications and working papers. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley and joined
Harvard in 1997. Tim G. Evans is team director of the Health Sciences Division at the Rockefeller Foundation. He is on leave
of absence from the Harvard School of Public Health, where he is assistant professor of population and international health. He holds degrees in agricultural economics (D.Phil, Oxford University) and clinical medicine
(M.D., McMaster University) and has completed residency training in internal medicine (Brigham and Women's Hospital). Priya Gajraj is a research associate in the Office of Development Studies at the United Nations Development Programme. She holds an M. A. in international relations from
Cambridge University and a B. A. in history from Yale University. Before joining UNDP, she worked at the European Commission Humanitarian Office. Isabelle Grunberg is senior policy adviser in the Office of Development Studies at the United Nations Development Programme. Previously, she was associate director of United
Nations studies at Yale University and a MacArthur fellow and lecturer at Yale. She was also a lecturer at the London School of Economics and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. She received a French doctoral
equivalent (agrégation) from the Sorbonne University and the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Her areas of publication include international political economy and theories of the international system. David A. Hamburg is president emeritus at Carnegie Corporation of New York, having been president from 1983
to 1997. From 1975 to 1980 he was president of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences, and from 1980 to 1983 he was director of the Division of Health Policy Research and Education and John D.
MacArthur Professor of Health Policy at Harvard University. He also served as president and chairman of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of the Defense Policy Board
and the President's Committee of Advisers on Science and Technology, and co-chair (with Cyrus Vance) of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. Geoffrey Heal
is Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility and professor of economics and finance, Program on Information and Resources, in the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. He has
held teaching positions at many leading universities in Europe and the United States. His books and articles cover a wide range of topics in the area of environmental economics, including environmental mar-kets,
exhaustible resources and economic interpretations of sustainability. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Cambridge University. Jane E. Holl is executive director of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, a programme of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Before joining Carnegie she
served as director for European affairs at the National Security Council under President Bush and President Clinton. She was a career officer in the US Army and retired in 1994. She holds a Ph.D. in political science
from Stanford University. Rajshri Jayaraman is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Economics at Cornell
University. She has an M.A. in international and devel-opment economics from Yale University and a B.A. in economics and finance from McGill University. Before joining Cornell she worked at the World Bank's resident
mission in India and its Europe and Central Asia department in Washington DC, and in the Human Development Report Office at the United Nations Development Programme in New York. Ravi Kanbur is T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs and professor of economics at Cornell University. His main areas of interest are public economics, development
economics and agricultural economics. His work spans conceptual, empirical and policy analysis. He is particularly interested in bridging the worlds of rigorous analysis and practical policy-making. He is widely
published on a range of topics, including risk taking, inequality, poverty, structural adjustment, debt, agriculture and political economy. Kanbur is director of the World Bank's World Development Report 2000. Ethan B. Kapstein is Stassen Professor of International Peace at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
and Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Previously, he was vice president and director of studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and principal administrator at the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris. He has written several books and many professional articles on international economic relations. Inge Kaul is director of the Office of Development Studies at the United Nations Development Programme. From 1990 to 1995 she served as director of the Human Development Report
Office at UNDP, where she coordinated a team of authors producing the annual Human Development Report. Before that she held senior policy positions at UNDP. She has extensive research xperience in developing countries
and is the author of a number of publica-tions and reports on development financing and aid. Robert Z. Lawrence is chief
economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, Albert L. Williams Professor of Trade and Investment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and new century senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, edits the Brookings Trade Policy Forum and chairs the Project on Middle East Trade at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
His current research focuses on global integration, trade in the Middle East and the impact of trade on labour markets. His publications focus on domestic and international economic problems and he has co-authored
Globaphobia: Confronting Fears About Open Trade (Brookings Institution Press, 1998). Lisa L. Martin received her Ph.D.
in government from Harvard University in 1990. She then moved to the University of California at San Diego, teaching in the Political Science Department. She spent the academic year 1991—92 as a national fellow in the
Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 1992 she moved to Harvard University as associate professor in the Government Department, and in 1996 she was promoted to full professor. Her publications include Coercive
Cooperation: Explaining Multilateral Economic Sanctions Princeton University Press, 1992) and a forthcoming book titled Democratic Commitments: Legislatures and International Cooperation. Ruben P. Mendez is a former senior career official at the United Nations Development Programme. He currently teaches at New York University and Yale
University, where he is affiliated with the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, and is writing an independent history of UNDP. He served as special adviser to the chairman of the Philippines's National
Economic Council and as economist in the Planning Department at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith. He pioneered the discipline of international public finance with his book International Public Finance: A New
Perspective on Global Relations (Oxford University Press, 1992) and other writings. J. Mohan Rao is professor of economics
at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His main research interests are economic development, income distribution and institutional change in developing countries. He has made a number of contributions to the
microeconomics of agrarian institutions and the macroeconomics of development. He has also written extensively on the constraints and options in agricultural development policy. He recently published major studies on
environment-economy linkages, economic liberalization and industrial productivity growth in India. His current research focuses on the logic of state action and on the long-run connection between development and
globalization. Jeffrey Sachs is Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade at Harvard University, director of the
Harvard Institute for International Development and director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University. Between 1986 and 1990 he advised the governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador,
Estonia, Mongolia, Russia, Slovenia and Venezuela, as well as Poland's Solidarity movement, on various aspects of economic and financial reform. His current research interests include the transition to mar-ket economies
in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, international financial markets, international macroeconomic policy coordination and macroeconomic policies in developing and developed countries. Todd Sandler is distinguished professor of economics and political science at Iowa State University. In addition to writing articles on a wide range of
topics, he co-authored The Theory of Externalities, Public Goods and Club Goods (2 nd ed., Cambridge
University Press, 1996). His recent book, Global Challenges, applies simple economic methods to study a range of problems, including terrorism, acid rain, global warming, revolutions and treaty formation. He and Keith
Hartley have just finished a forthcoming book, The Political Economy of NATO: Past, Present, and into the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Amartya Sen is master of Trinity College at Cambridge University and Lamont University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. Previously, he was Drummond Professor of
Political Economy at Oxford University and fellow of All Souls College, and he has taught at the London School of Economics, Delhi University and Cambridge University. He is a past president of the American Economic
Association, Indian Economic Association, Development Studies Association and Social Choice and Welfare Society. In 1998 he received the Nobel Prize in economics.
Ismail Serageldin is vice president for Special Programs at the World Bank and chairman of the World Commission on Water for the 21 st Century. He also serves as chairman of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, Consultative
Group to Assist the Poorest and Global Water Partnership, and co-chairs the World Bank-NGO Committee. The World Bank's Special Programs seek to, among other goals, integrate culture with the development paradigm and
support efforts by the Bank's member countries to preserve history, culture and identity. Serageldin has published widely on development, economics, the environment and culture. Debora L. Spar is associate professor at Harvard Business School. She has co-authored several books on business-government relations, international economic
cooperation and foreign direct investment. Her current work focuses on foreign trade and investment, how firms compete in foreign markets and how government policies shape the climate for international business. She is
particularly interested in exploring how the growth of trade in information is reshaping the global economy and redefining the strategies of firms in information-intensive industries such as media and entertainment. She
is also involved in projects examining the links between foreign direct investment and human rights. Marc A. Stern is
senior policy analyst in the Office of Development Studies at the United Nations Development Programme and a doctoral candidate in international affairs at the University of California at San Diego. His thesis focuses
on the effects of economic integration on environmental policy in developing countries. He has published several articles on Mexican environ-mental policy and is co-editor of Latin American Environmental Policy in
International Perspective (Westview, 1996). Before joining UNDP, he served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Environment and Development. Joseph E. Stiglitz is senior vice president for Development Economics, and chief economist at the World Bank. Previously, he served as chairman of the US Council of Economic
Advisers and was a member of the council and an active member of President Clinton's economic team since 1993. He is on leave from Stanford University, where he is professor of economics. As an academic he helped create
a branch of economics–the economics of information–that has received widespread application throughout economics. He is also a leading scholar on the economics of the public sector. J. Habib Sy is director of a Senegal-based nongovernmental organization, Partners for African Development. He has held various academic posts and positions in the
print and television fields. In addition, he was senior programme specialist at the International Development Research Centre. He is the author of several books and articles on African telecommunications systems and
policies and African history and sociopolitical systems. His areas of interest include mass communications theory, the impact of new communications technologies, education communications, transcultural communications,
African telecommunications systems, information superhighways and African history. Charles Wyplosz is professor of
international economics in the Graduate Institute in International Studies at the University of Geneva, and research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He is also managing editor of Economic Policy and
serves on the scientific boards of several professional journals. Since 1992 he has advised the government of Russia, and he is a consultant to various international organizations. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from
Harvard University and has published extensively on exchange rates, macroeconomic policy and labour markets. His recent research focuses on currency crises, European Monetary Union and exchange rates in transition
economies. Mark W. Zacher is professor of political science and research director of the Institute of International Relations at the University of British Columbia. From 1971 to 1991 he was director of the Institute of International Relations. He is a specialist on international regimes and organizations. Zacher is the author of Dag Hammarksjold's United Nations (Columbia University Press, 1970) and International Conflicts and Collective Security, 1946—1977 (Praeger, 1979). He is the co-author of Pollution, Politics and International Law: Tankers at Sea (University of California Press, 1979), Managing International Markets: Developing Countries and the Commodity Trade Regime (Columbia University Press, 1988) and Governing Global Networks: International Regimes for Transportation and Communications (Columbia University Press, 1996).Return to Top |