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Joseph StiglitzDirector, University Professor, Chaired Professor of Finance and Business, Department of Economics, SIPA, 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 PHD 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. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. 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. 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 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.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
Dana FisherProfessorEmail: drf2004@columbia.eduAcademic Departments: Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy & SociologyDana R. Fisher is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. Her research falls at the nexus of political and environmental sociology. She has published multiple works on decision-making around environmental issues, focusing particularly on the debates surrounding the international regulation of greenhouse gases. She is the author of _National Governance and the Global Climate Change Regime_ (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2004). Presently, she is working on projects that explore the ways that civil society participates in political processes-on the local, national, and international levels. Dr. Fisher is a member of the Council of the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association and is a coordinating lead author of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. She holds an A.B. from Princeton University, and a Masters in Science and Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.Albert FishlowProfessor of International and Public Affairs, Director, Institute of Latin American Studies, and Director, Center for Brazilian StudiesEmail: af594@columbia.edu
Academic Departments: School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia Institute of Latin American Studies & Center for the Study of BrazilFishlow's research interests include: economic history; Brazilian economy, trade and finance; Brazilian and Latin American development strategy; and economic relations between industrialized and developing countries. Some selected publications are: "Latin America in the XXI Century,Economic and Social Development into the XXI Century (ed. L. Emmerij), Inter-American Development Bank; Contending with Capital Flows: What Is Different about the 1990s?(with B. Eichengreen); Capital Flows and Financial Crises (ed. M. Kahler); The United States and the Americas: A 21st Century View (coed. with J. Jones); and Growing Apart: The Causes and Consequences of Global Wage Inequality, Council on Foreign Relations (coed. with K. Parker). BA, University of Pennsylvania, 1956; PhD, Harvard University, 1963.Bruce GreenwaldProfessor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business SchoolEmail: bg7@columbia.edu
Academic Departments: Business SchoolBruce Greenwald researches market mechanisms, corporate finance, and managerial economics. Greenwald received a PhD in economics from MIT, an MPA and an MS in electrical engeering from Princeton, and a BS in electrical engeering from MIT. Greenwald served as Research Economist at Bell Laboratories for four years, and was Member of Technical Staff for Bell Communications until 1991. Major publications include "Adverse Selection in the Labor Market"; Review of Economics Studies; and the following with J. Stiglitz: "Examining Alternative Macroeconomic Theories"; Brookings Papers on Economic Activity; "Externalities in Economics with Imperfect Information and Incomplete Markets"; Quarterly Journal of Economics; "Imperfect Information, Credit Markets and Unemployment"; European Economic Review; and Expectations and Macroeconomics. "Money, Imperfect Information and Economic Fluctuations" ; and Expectations and Macroeconomics.Merit JanowProfessor in the Practice of International Trade, Director, Program in International Economic Policy, Co-director, APEC Study CenterEmail: mj60@columbia.edu
Academic Departments: School of International and Public AffairsJanow is the author of: Economic Institution Building in a Global Economy: Indonesia's Challenges [Overview Chapter in forthcoming book edited with Mari Pangestu 2003] ; Competition Policy: Does it Belong at the WTO in The Next Trade Round (Forthcoming Kluwer, 2003) ; The Benefits of Competition Policy for Developing Economies? (Forthcoming 2002); U.S.-E.U. Cooperation in Competition Policy in Antitrust Goes Global (Brookings Institution, 2000); and others. Janow is an external member of the faculty of the M.I.L.E. Program, World Trade Institute, Bern Switzerland. BA, University of Michigan, 1980, JD, Columbia, 1988.Ousmane KaneAssociate Professor of International and Public AffairsEmail: ok2009@columbia.edu
Academic Departments: School of International and Public AffairsKane's research interests include: comparative politics; political anthropology; African political economy; Islamic politics; transnational migration and religion. Selected publications are: Muslim Modernity in Post-Colonial Nigeria; Intellectuels non-europhones; Islam et islamisme au Sud du Sahara. Diplome, Universite de la Sorbonne Nouvelle 1985, MA 1988, PhD, Institut d'etudes Politiques de Paris, 1993.Mahmood MamdaniHerbert Lehman Professor of Government at the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Institute of African Studies at SIPAEmail: mm1124@columbia.edu
Academic Departments: School of International and Public Affairs, Anthropology & Institute of African StudiesMamdani's research and teaching interests are political identity, colonialism, and state formation and state reform. Selected publications are: Citizen and Subject; And Fire Does not Always Beget Ash: Critical Reflections on the NRM; Imperialism and Fascism in Uganda; "Politics and Class Formation in Uganda"; "Myth of Population Control", Monthly Review Press. B.A., University of Pittsburgh, 1967; M.A., M.A.L.D., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1969; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1974.William MastersDirector of the Earth Institute's Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development (CGSD), and a Visiting Professor in the Department of International and Public AffairsEmail: wm2112@columbia.edu
Academic Departments: The Earth Institute & School of International and Public AffairsWilliam Masters attended Deep Springs College (1979-81), then graduated from Yale University with a BA in Economics and Political Science (1984) and from Stanford University with a PhD from the Food Research Institute (1991). He joined the faculty of Purdue University in 1991, where he is a Professor of Agricultural Economics. Will is the author or co-author of numerous articles on agriculture and food policy. His most recent work focuses on the determinants of technical change and economic performance. During his dissertation fieldwork, Will lived in Zimbabwe for three years in the late 1980s. After joining the Purdue faculty he conducted extensive fieldwork in West Africa, particularly in the Sahel region.Maria Victoria MurilloAssociate Professor of Political Science and Public AffairsEmail: mm2140@columbia.edu
Academic Departments: School of International and Public AffairsSelected publications are: Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America; Industrial Competition and Union Responses to Macro-Economic and Sector-Specific Adjustment in Mexico, Industrial Relations in the Age of Globalization (ed. C. Candland and R. Sils); From Populism to Neoliberalism: Labor Unions and Market Reforms in Latin America, World Politics; El sindicalismo latinoamericano en la encrucijada, Politico y Gobierno; El fin de la dictadura perfecta, Escenarios Alternativos. BA, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1991; MA, Harvard University, 1994; PhD, 1997; Assistant professor, Yale University, 1998-2000; Fellow, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, 1996.Richard NelsonGeorge Blumenthal Professor of International and Public Affairs, Business and LawEmail: rrn2@columbia.edu
Academic Departments: School of International and Public Affairs & The Earth InstituteProfessor Nelson's research interests include: Long-run economic change;technological advance; evolution of economic institutions. Among other publications, he is the author of: The Sources of Industrial Leadership (forthcoming); The Sources of Economic Growth; National Innovation Systems: A Comparative Analysis; Technology, Economic Growth, and Public Policy; and The Moon and the Ghetto: An Essay on Policy Analysis. BA, Oberlin College, 1952, Ph.D., Yale, 1956.Akbar NomanSenior FellowEmail: akbar.noman@columbia.eduAkbar Noman is Senior Fellow at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue and Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University. Mr. Noman was at the World Bank for much of the period, 1977-2003, where he held a variety of assignments. These included working on macroeconomic management; trade policy; financial and private sector development; international economic trends and prospects; poverty; and labor markets. His regional foci included Africa, Asia and the transition economies in Europe and Central Asia.
Mr. Noman served during 1990-1993 as Economic Adviser to Pakistan's Ministry of Finance and on the Prime Minister's Committee on Economic Policy. In 1981-82, he worked for the ILO's Asian Regional Team for Employment Promotion based in Bangkok and in 1982-83 as a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University.
Mr. Noman worked at the IMF during 1974-77, in the Asian Department and in the Exchange and Trade Relations Department. His work experience includes stints at the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University in 1972-73 and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in 1973-74
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 InstitutePrior to joining Columbia, Sachs spent over twenty years at Harvard University, most recently as Director of the Center for International Development. Sachs became internationally known in the 1980's for his work advising governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa on economic reforms. He is author or co-author of more than two hundred scholarly articles, and has written or edited many books. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on a group of poverty alleviation initiatives called the Millennium Development Goals. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Sachs received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard University.Arthur SmallAssistant Professor of International and Public Affairs, and of Finance and Economics, Graduate School of BusinessEmail: aas69@columbia.edu
Academic Departments: School of International and Public Affairs & Business SchoolHis research interests include: environmental and resource economics; environmental finance; economics of innovation; biodiversity prospecting; genetic resources; intellectual property rights and market structure in the agricultural biotechnology industry; environmental risks; climate change. Selected publications are: Valuing Research Leads: Bioprospect-ing and the Conservation of Genetic Resources(with G. Rausser); review of T. M. Swanson, ed., The Economics and Ecology of Biodiversity Decline: The Forces Driving Global Change. AB, Columbia University, 1987; MS, Cornell University, 1990; MS, University of California, Berkeley, 1994; PhD, 1998.Shari SpiegelDirector of Initiative for Policy DialogueEmail: ss2139@columbia.edu
Academic Departments: School of International and Public Affairs & Business SchoolShari Spiegel joined the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) in March of 2002. The initiative was founded by Joseph Stiglitz to explore economic policy alternatives for developing economies. Spiegel is responsible for the overall development and management of IPD. She is involved in substantive issues on all IPD task forces and country forums and is the co-Director of IPD's task force and research program on Sovereign Debt Management. She is an adjunct associate professor in Columbia University's School of International & Public Affairs. From 1995 to 2002, Spiegel was a Director of Lazard LLC, and the senior fixed income portfolio manager at Lazard Asset Management in charge of emerging market debt and foreign exchange. She developed a unique strategy for a diversified local currency fund, launched in conjunction with the IFC. In addition, she was a member of the asset allocation committee for all fixed income products. Prior to joining Lazard in 1995, Spiegel worked in Hungary, where she was one of the founders and the CEO of Budapest Investment Management Company, a subsidiary of Budapest Bank, which launched the first domestic investment fund in Hungary. She was initially invited to Budapest in 1991 to work as a foreign advisor at the National Bank of Hungary. While at the Central Bank, she worked on domestic capital market development, international debt structures, and currency valuation models. Before moving to Hungary, Ms. Spiegel worked at Citibank and Drexel Burnham Lambert in fixed income research, cross-currency interest-rate-swap trading, and credit research. Spiegel has an MA in economics from Princeton University and a BA in applied mathematics and economics from Northwestern UniversityDavid StarkArthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International AffairsEmail: dcs36@columbia.eduAcademic Departments: Sociology & School of International and Public AffairsDavid Stark is Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Columbia University where he directs the Center on Organizational Innovation. He is an External Faculty Member of the Santa Fe Institute. Stark examines organizational forms as sites of multiple evaluative principles or frames of worth. He has carried out field research in Hungarian factories before and after 1989, in new media startups in Manhattan before and after the dot.com crash, and in a World Financial Center trading room before and after the attack on September 11th. With support from the National Science Foundation, he continues his work in Eastern Europe in a multi-country project on the virtual public sphere and in a longitudinal network analysis of property transformation among the largest 1,800 Hungarian enterprises. Professor Stark received his B.A. from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.Miguel UrquiolaAssistant Professor, School of International and Public AffairsEmail: msu2101@columbia.edu
Academic Departments: School of International and Public Affairs & EconomicsPrimary fields of research: Public Finance, Labor Economics, Development Economics. Articles published or under review include: When schools compete, how do they compete? An assessment of Chile's nationwide voucher program, with Chang-Tai Hsieh Submitted to the American Economic Review Identifying class size effects in developing countries: Evidence from rural schools in Bolivia.(Revise and resubmit), the Review of Economics and Statistics What difference does it make if school and work are connected? Evidence on Cooperative Education in the U.S. with David Stern and Neil Finkelstein, Economics of Education Review 16(3), 1997. School choice and educational productivity. What can Tiebout really reveal? Revise and resubmit, the American Economic Review. B.A. in Economics and Political Science, Swarthmore College, 1992; Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley 2000.
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