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Program Director
Joseph StiglitzDirector of Committee on Global Thought, Co-Director of IPD, Chaired Professor of Finance and BusinessEmail: jes322@columbia.eduAcademic Departments: Economics, School of International and Public Affairs & Business SchoolStiglitz was born in Gary, Indiana in 1943. A graduate of Amherst College, he received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1967, became a full professor at Yale in 1970, and in 1979 was awarded the John Bates Clark Award, given biennially by the American Economic Association to the economist under 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the field. He has taught at Princeton, Stanford, MIT and was the Drummond Professor and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is now Professor of Economics and Finance at Columbia University in New York.
He was a member of the Council of Economic Advisors from 1993-95, during the Clinton administration, and served as CEA chairman from 1995-97. He then became Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000. He also founded one of the leading economics journals, The Journal of Economic Perspectives. His book Globalization and Its Discontents (Norton June 2001) has been translated into 20 languages and is an international bestseller.
Recognized around the world as a leading economic educator, Joseph Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001 for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information. He was a lead author of the 1995 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Professor Stiglitz helped create a new branch of economics, "The Economics of Information," exploring the consequences of information asymmetries and pioneering such pivotal concepts as adverse selection and moral hazard, which have now become standard tools not only of theorists, but of policy analysts. He has made major contributions to macro-economics and monetary theory, to development economics and trade theory, to public and corporate finance, to the theories of industrial organization and rural organization, and to the theories of welfare economics and of income and wealth distribution.
Associated Staff
Eva KaplanIGERT coordinatorEmail: ek2486@columbia.eduEva Kaplan is Program Coordinator for the IGERT International Development and Globalization PhD program. Previously she worked on issues of economics and health in Kenya and in the Africa Programme at Chatham House. She received an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and a BA in Political Science from Wellesley College.Associated Faculty
Peter BearmanChair of the Department of Sociology, Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and PolicyEmail: psb17@columbia.edu
Academic Departments: Sociology & Institute for Social and Economic Research and PolicyProfessor Peter Bearman is the Director of the Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, the Cole Professor of Social Science, and Co-Director of the Health & Society Scholars Program. He was the founding director of ISERP. A recipient of the NIH Director's Pioneer Award in 2007, Professor Bearman is currently investigating the social determinants of the autism epidemic. Current projects also include an ethnographic study of the funeral industry and, with support from the American Legacy Foundation, an investigation of the social and economic consequences of tobacco control policy. A specialist in network analysis, he co-designed the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and has used the data extensively for research on topics including adolescent sexual networks, networks of disease transmission, and genetic influences on same-sex preference.
Akeel BilgramiDirector of Heyman Center for Humanities, Johnsonian Professor of PhilosophyEmail: ab41@columbia.eduAcademic Departments: PhilosophyAs a professor of the Committee on Global Thought and scholar on Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Political Philosophy and Moral Psychology, Professor Bilgrami is bridging the gap between theory and practice. He has published various articles in Philosophy of Mind as well as in Political and Moral Psychology. Some of his articles in these latter subjects speak to issues of current politics in their relation to broader social and cultural issues. Professor Bilgrami is also the Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, where he works to transfer his knowledge into concrete actions.Patrick BoltonBarbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business and Professor of EconomicsEmail: pb2208@columbia.eduAcademic Departments: Business SchoolPatrick Bolton is the David Zalaznick Professor of Business. His research and areas of interest are in contract theory and contracting issues in corporate finance and industrial organization. A central focus of his work is on the allocation of control and decision rights to contracting parties when long-term contracts are incomplete. This issue is relevant in many different contracting areas including: the firm's choice of optimal debt structure, corporate governance and the firm's optimal ownership structure, vertical integration, and constitution design. His work in industrial organization focuses on antitrust economics and the potential anticompetitive effects of various contracting practices. Mamadou DioufDirector of Institute of African StudiesEmail: md2573@columbia.eduAcademic Departments: Middle East and Asian Languages and CulturesMamadou Diouf, a renowned West African scholar and historian, leads Columbia University’s Institute for African Studies at the School of International and Public Affairs. Diouf is also a faculty member in Columbia's Departments of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) and History. His research interests include urban, political, social and intellectual history in colonial and postcolonial Africa. He is the author, editor and co-author of several other works including Les Figures du Politique En Afrique, Des Pouvoirs Herites aux Pouvoirs Elus and Les Jeunes, Hantise de L'Espace Public dans Les Societes du Sud. He is also a member of the editorial board of several professional journals including the Journal of African History.Michael DoyleHarold Brown Professor of US Foreign and Security Policy, Professor of Law and Political ScienceEmail: md2221@columbia.eduAcademic Departments: School of International and Public AffairsMichael W. Doyle is the Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science at Columbia University. His current research focuses on international law and international relations. His major publications include Ways of War and Peace (W.W. Norton); Empires (Cornell University Press); Making War and Building Peace (Princeton Press); and Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict (Princeton Press, 2008). He served as Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan where his responsibilities included strategic planning (the “Millennium Development Goals”), outreach to the international corporate sector (the “Global Compact’) and relations with Washington. He is currently a personal representative of the secretary-general, appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and the chair of the UN Democracy Fund.David EpsteinCo-Director of Center on Political Economy and Comparative Institutional AnalysisEmail: de11@columbia.eduAcademic Departments: Political ScienceDavid Epstein is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is an expert on U.S. politics, including presidential elections and the media; Congress and congressional-executive relations; and racial redistricting. His fields of study also include game theory, statistics, and the politics of democratization. Prof. Epstein is the author of Delegating Powers , as well as over 20 articles in leading journals, including American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, and International Organization, with consulting engagements at the Pew Foundation, the State Failure Task Force, and the World Bank.Sherry GliedDirector of Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public HealthEmail: sag1@columbia.eduAcademic Departments: Mailman School of Public HealthDr. Sherry Glied is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. In 1992-1993, she served as a Senior Economist for health care and labor market policy on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Bush and Clinton, and participated in the Clinton Health Care Task Force. She has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and to the Board of AcademyHealth. She is a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisers. Dr. Glied’s principal areas of research are in health policy reform and mental health care policy. Her book on health care reform, Chronic Condition, was published by Harvard University Press in January 1998. Her book on mental health policy, with Richard Frank, Better But Not Well, Mental Health Policy in the U.S. since 1950, was published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in 2006.Stephany Griffith-JonesExecutive Director of IPDEmail: sgj2108@columbia.eduAcademic Departments: Business SchoolStephany Griffith-Jones is an economist whose areas of expertise include global capital flows to emerging markets, especially macro-economic management of capital flows in Latin America, Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, and international financial reform with special emphasis on regulation. Prior to joining IPD, Professor Griffith-Jones was Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at University of Sussex, United Kingdom and served as Senior Official at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the Economic Commission of Latin America (ECLAC), and as Head of International Finance at the Commonwealth Secretariat (UK). She has acted as senior consultant to governments in Eastern Europe and Latin America and to many international agencies, including the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and United Nations, especially UNDP and ECLAC. She began her career at the Central Bank of Chile. She was recipient of Association of Latin American Financial Institutions prize for best essay on Latin America's international finance, and the Distinguished Czech Woman of the World Award (2006), granted by Charles University and Czech government.Macartan HumphreysAssistant Professor of Political ScienceEmail: mh2245@columbia.eduAcademic Departments: Political ScienceMacartan Humphreys works on African political economy and formal political theory. His dissertation on the politics of factions developed game theoretic models of conflict and cooperation between internally divided groups. More recent research focuses on rebellions in West Africa, where he has undertaken field research in the Casamance, Mali and Sierra Leone. Ongoing research now includes experimental work on ethnic politics, econometric work on natural resource conflicts, game theoretic work on ethnic politics and large N survey work of ex-combatants in Sierra Leone. Professor Macartan's work is motivated by concerns over the linkages between politics, conflict and human development. He is a research scholar at the Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute and a member of the Millennium Development goals project poverty task force where he works on conflict and development issues. His research interests include comparative politics, Formal political theory, African Political Economy, Violent Conflict, Ethnic Politics, and Political Bargaining.Frank MorettiDirector of Center for New Media Teaching and LearningEmail: fmoretti@columbia.eduAcademic Departments: Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL)Dr. Frank Moretti is a co-founder and the executive director of Columbia University’s Center for New Media Teaching Learning. Under his tutelage, he has grown the Center from a staff of three to almost fifty educational technologists, graphic designers, and programmers who work collaboratively with Columbia University, Teachers College and Barnard College faculty. Projects developed under Dr. Moretti’s direction include the Global Classroom, Millennium Village, a Web-based simulation of economics and survival for a family and their village in a sub-Saharan African village), and Multimedia Connect, a multimedia HIV-prevention intervention project funded by the National Institute of Health. Maria Victoria MurilloAssociate ProfessorEmail: mm2140@columbia.eduAcademic Departments: Political Science & School of International and Public AffairsAs a visiting researcher from Mexico’s Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economica (CIDE), Professor Maria Victoria Murillo has transferred knowledge to one of Latin-America’s leading academic institution as her research on the labor market has shed light on matters that concern all teachers. She is the author of Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and various articles on labor politics and privatization politics in Latin America. She is currently working on the politics of policymaking in Latin America with a particular focus on the privatization and regulation of public utilities, labor regulations, and education policies.Katharina PistorAssociate Professor at Columbia Law SchoolEmail: kpisto@law.columbia.edu
Academic Departments: Columbia Law SchoolKatharina Pistor is a Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, teaching courses on corporate law, European and comparative private law, and law and development. Her previous appointments as Assistant Professor for Public Policy January 2000 - June 2001: Kennedy School Of Government, Harvard University and her experience teaching courses on the law and development and Research Associate (1998 – 1999) are examples of her personal commitment to the transfer of knowledge. Her main areas of research are company law and corporate governance, regulation of institutional investors, capital market development, and contract enforcement in transition economies.
Professor Pistor published on comparative law issues including privatization, legal reform and financial market development in transition economies, and legal transplantation. Her recent publications include Law & Capitalism: What Corporate Crisis Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development Around the World (Pistor, Katharina and Curtis Milhaupt, University of Chicago Press, 2008), and articles "Trade, Law and Product Complexity," Review of Economics and Statistics (with Dan Berkowitz and Johannes Moenius, 2006), and “Legal Institutions and International Trade Flows,” University of Michigan International Law Review, Vol. 26 (1): 163-198. (with Dan Berkowitz and Johannes Moenius, 2005).Sanjay ReddyAssistant ProfessorEmail: sreddy@barnard.eduAcademic Departments: Economics at BarnardLargely concerned with poverty, deprivation and inequality, Dr. Sanjay Reddy is presently working extensively on global poverty and inequality estimates, capability-based inter-country poverty comparisons, and the theory of economic and social measurement generally (including index number analysis). Dr. Reddy has conducted extensive research for development agencies and international institutions, including the G-24, ILO, Oxfam, UNDESA, UNICEF, UNDP, UNU-WIDER, UNRISD, and the World Bank and his research has been supported by the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Institute. He has been a member of the advisory panel of the UNDP's Human Development Report, and is presently a member of the UN Statistics Division's Steering Committee on Poverty Statistics. He has conducted fieldwork, published and presented widely, and is a member of the editorial advisory boards of Development, Ethics and International Affairs, and the European Journal of Development Research.Jeffrey SachsDirector of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic ResearchEmail: sachs@columbia.edu
Academic Departments: Economics, School of International and Public Affairs & The Earth InstituteProfessor Sachs is currently Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. From 2002 to 2006, Professor Sachs was Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Director of the UN Millennium Project. He is also widely known for his work with international agencies on problems of poverty reduction, debt cancellation, and disease control (especially HIV/AIDS ) for the developing world. He is the only academic to have been repeatedly ranked among the world's most influential people by Time magazine. Before coming to Columbia University in July 2002, Professor Sachs spent over 20 years at Harvard University. Since 2002, Professor Sachs has been has been a professor in Columbia's Department of Economics, School of International and Public Affairs, and Department of Health Policy and Management. In 2003, he became Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development. He is also President and Co-Founder of Millennium Promise as well as Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Previously, Professor Sachs had been an advisor to the IMF, the World Bank, the OECD, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Development Programme.
Professor Sach’s leading contributions to teaching and training focus on a new branch of economics called "clinical economics." His research interests include: the links between health and development, economic geography, globalization, transitions to market economies, international financial markets, international macroeconomic policy coordination, emerging markets, economic development and growth, global competitiveness, and macroeconomic policies in developing and developed countries.
Saskia SassenRobert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology
Email: sjs2@columbia.eduAcademic Departments: SociologyProfessor Saskia Sassen is in the Department of Sociology and The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. She is also a Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Professor Sassen’s research and writing focuses on globalization, immigration, global cities, the new networked technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational conditions. She serves on several editorial boards and is an advisor to several international bodies. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities. She has received a variety of awards and prizes, most recently, a Doctor honoris causa from Delft University (Netherlands), the first Distinguished Graduate School Alumnus Award of the University of Notre Dame, and was one of the four winners of the first University of Chicago Future Mentor Award covering all doctoral programsElliot SclarDirector of Urban Planning, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and PreservationEmail: eds2@columbia.eduAcademic Departments: Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation & School of International and Public AffairsElliot Sclar holds senior appointments in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and the School of International and Public Affairs and is an active participant in the work of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. As a professional economist, Professor Sclar has written extensively about the strengths and limitations of markets as mechanisms for effective public policy implementation. Sclar was the co-coordinator of the UN Millennium Project Taskforce on Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers. It was one of the ten taskforces set up by the UN Millennium Project to help guide the implementation of the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals. In recent years Sclar has been a leading figure in a scholarly movement to reconnect the work of population health experts and urban planners in creating healthier cities. In November 2007 Sclar received the Humanitarian of the Year Award from the International Society for Urban Health in recognition of his work in this field.Christopher WeissDirector of Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences Seminar SeriesEmail: cw2036@columbia.eduAcademic Departments: Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy & SociologyChristopher Weiss directs the Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences Program. His primary research interests center on the influence of organizations and institutions on children and adolescents. His recent published work has focused on understanding how organizational features of schools shape student outcomes and on how parental education in later life influences intergenerational educational patterns. He is using new statistical tools to examine the effect of grade retention on student outcomes. Professor Chris also participates in the Health and Society Scholars working group on physical activity and obesity, and is involved in Andrew Rundle's NIH-funded project on the built environment, physical activity, and body size.
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