Candido Mendes University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
9-10 October 2000
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WANDERLEY GUILHERME DOS SANTOS MARCO ANTONIO DE OLIVEIRA MACIEL ROXANA MAURIZIO (FOR ROBERTO FRENKEL) |
Secretária de Estado de Assistência Social Nascimento: Rio de Janeiro/RJ, em 26 de junho. Talvez a mais marcante experiência profissional tenha sido dirigir a primeira unidade do programa especial de educação do governo Brizola: o Centro Cultural Comunitário de São Cristóvão,como Brizolão da Mangueira, a pré-história do CIEP. Como representante do Roda Viva, integrava a primeira gestão do Conanda (Conselho Nacional de Defesa da Criança e do Adolescente), quando ocorreu a chamada Chacina da Candelária. Em 1999 foram obtidos alguns avanços, principalmente na definição de novos e mais justos critérios de distribuição de recursos para estados e municípios, na implantação de uma política voltada para a juventude (grande lacuna na área de assistência social) e na definição de uma Agenda Social 2000 para cada um dos estados da Federação.
Shin-Ichi Ago is a Professor of International Economic Law at Kyushu University, and has been on the faculty there since 1993. Prior to this position he worked as a Regional Adviser on International Labour Standards at ILO (in Bangkok). He has authored numerous journal articles including "A Crossroad of International Protection of Human Rights and International Trade - Is the Social Clause a Relevant Concept?" (in Droit et Justice, Melanges Nicolas Valticos, Paris, Pedone, 1999). He received his Masters of Law from Tokyo University
Doctorado en Administración Estratégica en la Universidad de Lancaster, Inglaterra (1991). Post-Grado en Ciencias Computacionales, con especialidad en Inteligencia Artificial en la Universidad de Western Ontario, Canada (1989). De mayo de 1999 a la fecha forma parte del equipo del Lic. Vicente Fox Quesada como responsable de la Planeación Estratégica de la Campaña y de la propuesta de Política Social. De junio 1995 a abril 1999 fungió como Coordinador General para el Desarrollo Regional (CODEREG) y Coordinador General del Comité de Planeación para el Desarrollo del Estado de Guanajuato (COPLADEG). Fue responsable de la planeación estratégica del gobierno del estado de Guanajuato y de la política de desarrollo social y de combate a la pobreza. Fundador y presidente del Centro de Desarrollo Humano de Guanajuato AC primero de esta naturaleza en América Latina en 1998 y actualmente es miembro del consejo directivo. Desarrolló actividades docentes a nivel licenciatura y maestría en el ITESM Campus León.
Ceres Alves Prates is the Secretary of Management - Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management. She has also served as Special Assistant to the Chief-Minister of Staff of the President of the Republic and as Superintendent of Strategic Planning at the SEADE Foundation, (Sao Paulo). She has received a degree in Public Administration from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Sao Paulo.
Luís Filipe Marques Amado is Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Constitutional Government of Portugal. He was Secretary of State of Internal Affairs from 1995-1997 and Member of Parliament since 1992. Mr. Filipe Marques Amado has a Degree in Economics and Law from the University of Lisbon.
Christian Barry is Program Officer at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. He was deeply involved in the publication of the Human Development Report 2000 and worked as a consultant in the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme.
Carlos Basombrío is Director of the Instituto de Defensa Legal, in Lima. Instituto de Defensa Legal is a non-governmental organization that focuses on strengthening Peruvian democracy and has achieved international recognition - receiving both the "International Freedom Award 1992" and the "International Human Rights Award" in 1993. He is also a Professor of Sociology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru. Basombrío is the author of several papers and books, including, "Sendero Luminoso and Human Rights: A Perverse Logic that Captured the Country," published in Shining and Other Paths (North Carolina, 1998).
Joanne Bauer is Director of Studies at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, where she is currently directing the organization's Human Rights Initiative and its multiyear project on Values and Environmental Policy. Prior to joining the Carnegie Council in 1990, she held research positions in media, government and banking. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Association of Asian Studies. Bauer is co-editor of the volume, The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights.
Medea Benjamin is Executive Director of the human rights organization, Global Exchange. She is also the Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate in California. For more than twenty years, Benjamin has supported human rights and social justice struggles in Asia, Africa and Latin America. She has worked for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Health Organization, and the Swedish International Development Agency. She has written numerous books and articles on issues such as hunger and unequal development. Her publications include The Greening of the Revolution: Cuba's National Experiment in Sustainable Agriculture, and Bridging the Global Gap: A Handbook to Linking Citizens of the First and Third Worlds.
Nancy Birdsall is Special Adviser to the Administrator of UNDP and provides advice to the Human Development Report Office. Nancy is an eminent economist and widely published author who presently serves as Senior Associate and Director of Economics Programs for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She served with distinction as Executive Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank, and served at the World Bank in various capacities, including most recently, as Director of the Policy Research Department and earlier as Chief of various groups covering education, health and environmental issues. She directed the team that prepared the 1984 World Development Report on population and development. Ms. Birdsall received her Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University.
Roberto Bissio, born 1952 in Montevideo, Uruguay, is a journalist. He heads ITeM (Third World Institute), a non-profit organization committed to promote South-South information exchange and the access of communities and citizen organizations to information. He was an active NGO representatives in the Social Summit where he helped convene the "Development Caucus". Since then he has been in charge of the secretariat of Social Watch and responsible for the edition of the yearly Social Watch report, which reflects the input of national citizen coalitions monitoring the Social Summit implementation. Bissio is also the publisher of "World Guide", a reference book on developing countries and global issues, and member of Third World Network's international committee. IteM's NGONET program started in 1991 as a pioneering initiative in the use of electronic information and communication technologies to "bridge the gap" between local communities and international decision-making. He is a member of the civil society advisory group to the UNDP administrator.
François Bourguignon is Professor of Economics at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris and Honorary Director of Delta. He is presently on leave from this post. During this period he has been working at the World Bank where he is the Managing Editor of the World Bank Economic Review. His work focuses on the distribution and redistribution of income in both developed and developing countries. He has authored numerous journal articles in leading international journals in economics, and has edited various books.
Sarah Burd-Sharps has worked for the UN since 1987. In the year leading up to the Beijing Women's Conference, Sarah carried out a global media campaign on gender issues, and supported Chinese women's organizations and the nascent NGO movement there. Prior to this position, Sarah worked for UNIFEM's Africa Section on projects with an emphasis on food security and economic empowerment and has worked in nine African countries. Ms. Burd-Sharps has been a member of the Human Development Report team since 1998. As the Manager of Programme Development and Outreach, she is working to translate the Report's media acclaim into changes in policies to bring about development that is people-centred, and to reach the widest audience possible with these messages. Sarah is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vassar College, with a Master's Degree from Columbia University in International Affairs. Sarah speaks Chinese and has worked for a total of four years in China.
Audrey R. Chapman has served as the Director of the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for 9 years. She also directs the AAAS Program of Dialogue between Science and Religion. She has served on the faculty of Barnard College, the University of Ghana, and the University of Nairobi. She served as a consultant for The Ford Foundation in Lebanon and Kenya, and as an advisor in Social Statistics for the Kenya Central Bureau of Statistics. She has authored numerous books and publications related to human rights and religious ethics, including Human Rights and Health: The Legacy of Apartheid and Unprecedented Choices: Religious Ethics on the Frontiers of Genetic Science. She received a Ph.D. in public law and government. She is an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ.
Dr. Mercedes González de la Rocha is a senior researcher at CIESAS Occidente (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social) in Guadalajara, Mexico. An anthropologist trained in Mexico (Universidad Iberoamericana) and England (M.A. and Ph.D., University of Manchester). She is the author of The Resources of Poverty: Women and Survival in a Mexican City (Oxford: Basil Blackwell) among other publications in English and Spanish. De la Rocha has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Texas at Austin (UT), and was the Tinker Professor at the Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies, Columbia University, in 1998.
Dr. Clarence J. Dias is the President of the International Center for Law in Development. For the past three years he has been the United Nations Expert from the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights to the annual Asia-Pacific Intergovernmental Workshop on Regional Human Rights Arrangements. He is presently a consultant to UNDP on implementation of its policy Integrating Human Rights with Sustainable Human Development. He has published extensively and his books include "Industrial Hazards in a Transnational World", "Legal Professions in the Third World", and "The International Context of Rural Poverty in the Third World". He holds doctoral degrees in law.
Asbjørn Eide is Senior Fellow and former Director of the Norwegian Institute of Human Rights. The aim of the Institute is to contribute to implementation of internationally recognised human rights, through research, information and documentation. The Institute is affiliated with the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo. He is also a member and former Chairman of the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights.
Lin Dapeng is a SURF Programme Specialist in UNDP/Beijing.
Professor Heba El Laithy is a professor of statistics at the Faculty of Economics, Cairo University. She is a member of the Egyptian Human Development Report team. She has more than twenty publications on poverty, strategies for poverty alleviation and human development. She was engaged in many research projects such as; Enhancing the Socio-Economic Status of Women in Egypt; for "The Social Research Center at the American University" in Cairo, Assessing the Economic and Social Impact for Programs of the Social Fund for Development, and Developing Poverty Conscious Macro Frameworks in Egypt, a project financed by the World Bank. Designed a training course on "Poverty Alleviation in Egypt" for regional staff of the Social Fund for Development, SFD. She also participated in training and preparing the manual for the course.
Yilmaz Esmer holds a BA from Yale and and a PhD from Stanford Universities. He has been a faculty member at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey since 1977. He also was a visiting faculty member at Stanford and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He served as Provost between 1996-98. He conducted various national and international surveys, is a Steering Committee member of the World Values Survey group and a Planning Committee member of European Social Survey. He has also been involved in the preparation of Turkey Human Development Report.
Flavio Fava de Moraes is the Executive Director of the State Foundation of Data Analyses/Seade and Full Professor since 1980. He was the Rector of the University of São Paulo from 1993-1997. He was also the Secretary of Science, Technology and Economic Development in 1998 and has been the Special Adviser of the Governor of the State of São Paulo - Brazil since 1999.
Francisco H. G. Ferreira is a Professor of Economics at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). His research focuses on income distribution dynamics. Currently, he is a co-director of the LACEA/IDB/World Bank Network on Inequality and Poverty, an Associate Editor of "Economia", and a co-chairman of the LACEA-Rio-2000 conference. He is currently on leave from his post as an Economist at the Poverty Reduction Department of the World Bank. Francisco received his Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics.
Mr. Walter Franco, a national of Ecuador, obtained a B.A. in Economics at the Colorado College, Colorado and a Masters in International Affairs/International Economics at Columbia University, New York. Mr. Franco is presently the Coordinator of the U.N. System and UNDP Resident Representative in Brazil. He has served the UN System since 1978, including assignments as UNDP Resident Representative in El Salvador and Bolivia.
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is an economist and social scientist and is Director of the Human Development Report Office of United Nations Development Programme. She is the chief author with Richard Jolly of the Human Development Report 2000 on Human Rights, on the 1999 report on Globalization, 1998 report on Consumption, 1997 report on Human Poverty and the 1996 report on Economic Growth. She also worked on the 1995 report on Gender with Mahbub ul Haq. She has been directing research and proposals for development from a human centered perspective. Some highlights have included the introduction of a multi dimensional, non income based measure of poverty, globalization from a human perspective, poverty and human rights. She has also spoken and written broadly on these issues. Prior to her work on the Human Development Reports, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr worked on aid coordination, technical cooperation effectiveness, and agricultural development. She is a graduate of Cambridge University, University of Sussex and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She is a Japanese national, is married and has two children. She speaks English, Japanese and French.
Enrique Ganuza is an economist and sociologist, with extensive experience in developing cooperation from several years with the Swedish Agency for Developing Cooperation and the Inter-American Development Bank. He has written several publications on poverty, inequality and macroeconomics. Currently, he is Chief Economist in the Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean in UNDP.
Jayati Ghosh has been teaching economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for the past fifteen years. She has served as a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, England and a Consultant to the Planning Commission of the Government of India. In addition to her academic and research work, she writes regular columns in two current Indian periodicals on economics and other current affairs.
Soledad Godoy is sociologist. She graduated from the University of Chile. Since 1999 he has been a member of the UNDP's team that prepares the National Human development Report of Chile.
José Goldemberg has been an active member of various organizations and commissions, including the World Commission on Dams, the Advisory Board of the Alliance for Global Sustainability and has served as Chairman of the World Energy Assessment. Recently, he served as a visiting professor at the International Academy of the Environment in Geneva and was a visiting professor for the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University. Goldemberg completed his graduate work in Physics and received his Ph.D. in Physical Sciences from Universidade de São Paulo. He has been honored with many awards including, co-winner of the VOLVO Environment Prize 2000, co-winner of the Mitchell Prize for Sustainable Development U.S.A. (1991) and the establishment of the "José Goldemberg Chair in Atmospheric Physics" at Tel Aviv University (1994).
Oded Grajew is the Chairman of the Board of Abrinq Foundation for Children's Rights. He is a Former member of the International Committee of the American Council on Foundations from 1996 to 2000. He is the President of Ethos Institute of Business and Social Responsibility. Mr. Grajew is a Member of the Board of Transparency Brazil -an institution identified with the causes of corruption and development of governmental mechanisms to combat this practice.
WANDERLEY GUILHERME DOS SANTOS
Wanderley Guilherme Dos Santos is currently the Director of the Laboratory of Experimental Studies and Vice-Provost of Universidade Candido Mendes. He is a full professor (retired) in the department of political science at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and a professor of sociology and political science at the Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro. He has published numerous journal articles and books, and has participated in various congresses, lectures, seminars and panels. He received a degree in Philosophy and his Ph.D. in Political Science.
Nadia Hijab is an author and development consultant. Her books include, Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work and Citizens Apart. She served as editor-in-chief for the Middle East magazine and was a frequent commentator on the BBC before joining the United Nations Development Programme. Since 1999, she has consulted for such organizations as UNDP and World Bank on various issues including human rights, poverty, development and gender.
Hans Hofmeijer is a Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the ILO's Employment Sector. He is responsible for ILO's participation in the Global Compact. For the last eight years he has worked to promote ILO cooperation with the private sector, particularly in the areas of micro-finance and small enterprise development. Between 1976 and 1992 Hans Hofmeijer held field assignments with the ILO and UNFPA in Peru, Turkey and Colombia, focusing on such areas as technical cooperation promotion and programming, finance and human resource development. Hans Hofmeijer holds degrees in political science and sociology.
Kamal Hossain is a Barrister--at-Law and Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He is an active member in many organizations, including the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, and chairs the Advisory Council of Transparency International. He has traveled on numerous missions, including the Human Rights Mission to Indonesia (relating to situation in East Timor) with Forum-Asia, the Hong Kong Pre-Election Mission with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the Commonwealth Election Observers' Mission to South Africa and the SAARC Election Observers' Mission to Pakistan and Sri Lanka. He received a degree in Civil Law and a PhD in International Law from Oxford University.
Enrique V. Iglesias is president of the Inter-American Development Bank. He was minister of External Relations for Uruguay from 1985 to 1988 and executive secretary of the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) from 1972 to 1985. In 1994 Iglesias received two honorary doctorates: one from the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, in México, and the other from the Cándido Méndes university system of Rio de Janeiro. He has written many articles and papers on Latin American and Uruguayan economic concerns. Iglesias was born in Asturias, Spain, and is a naturalized Uruguayan citizen. He graduated from the University of the Republic of Uruguay in Economics and Business Administration in 1953, and went on to pursue specialized programs of study in the United States and France.
FROM FRANCOIS: Virgilio Juvane was National Director of Planning in the Education Ministry of Mozambique.
Asma Khader is lawyer and women's rights activist in Jordan. She is coordinator of Sisterhood Is Global Institute's (SIGI) human rights education program in Jordan. She is the former President of the Jordanian Women's Union, and member of the Arab Lawyer's Union and the Arab Organization for Human Rights. She is a lawyer and human rights activist who was instrumental in creating a Legal Literacy/Civic Education program for Jordanian women. She served as a Judge in the 1997 public hearings on violence against women at The Women's Court: The Permanent Arab Court To Resist Violence Against Women. Ms. Khader was recently appointed to the Executive Committee of the International Commission of Jurists.
Damien King is Professor in the Department of Economics, University of West Indies.
José Carlos Libânio, anthropologist, 42 years old, is an experienced professional as governmental official, independent consultant and NGO officer in field and policy activities related to socio-economic development and sustainability issues. Skilled in public policy, legislation, conservation management, economic development, poverty alleviation and public administration. During the last five years he has worked as the Sustainable Development Adviser for UNDP in Brazil, focusing on sustainable human development research and policy advice, so as to promote improved and sustainable living standards.
MARCO ANTONIO DE OLIVEIRA MACIEL
Marco Antonio de Oliveira Maciel was elected Vice-President of Brazil in 1994, and subsequently re-elected in 1998 on the platform of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. He is a lawyer and tenured professor of Private International Law at the Pernambuco Catholic University, currently on leave. At the State and Federal executive levels, he was the Pernambuco State Governor from 1979 through 1982, the Minister of Education, appointed by President-elect Tancredo Neves, and the Minister Chief of Staff of the President's Office during the José Sarney administration. Born in Recife in 1940, he is married to Anna Maria Ferreira Maciel; they have three children, as well as a grandson and a granddaughter.
He has worked as a Senior Policy Analyst in the Human Development Centre in Islamabad. He was also a member of the Core Research Team for Human Development in South Asia 1998 (The Education Challenge) and Human Development in South Asia 1999 (The Crisis in Governance). Malik has authored many articles and publications, including An Asia Drama Revisited (with Prof. Paul Streeten) and Pakistan's Macro-economic Context (for the ActionAid Annual Report). Adeel Malik received masters degrees in Economics.
Jamarber Malltezi is the National Coordinator in Albania for the Small Grants Programme of the Global Environment Facility (GEF/SGP), a UNDP global project. Mr. Malltezi is currently completing the M.S. program in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology at University of Maryland in College Park.
Stephen P. Marks is the François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health and Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. Professor Marks has spent over twenty years teaching at universities around the globe. He has taught at Columbia University, Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School; the University of Phnom Penh Faculty of Law; Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and various other universities. His many publications focus on international law and organizations, international health, preventive diplomacy, peacekeeping, development and human rights. Recently he edited (with Burns Weston) and contributed to The Future of International Human Rights (Transnational Publishers, 1999).
Rodrigo Márquez is a Sociologist in the United Nations Development Programme in Chile. Since 1995 he was a member of the UNDP team in charge of the NHDR of Chile. He has participated in three published reports including this year's. He has been international consultant on Human Development in several Latin American countries. He is a graduate of the University of Chile.
Elena Martinez is Assistant Administrator and Regional Director of the Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean. Ms. Martinez also held high-level UNDP posts in Peru, Venezuela, Chile and Mexico as well as in the Headquarters in New York. Ms. Martinez obtained a post graduate degree from the Institute d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, France and an MA in International Affairs from the University of Miami. She also successfully completed the World Bank Group Executive Development Program led by the Harvard Business School in 1998.
Roberto Martins is President of the Institute of Applied Economic Studies/IPEA in Brazil.
"Fernando Martins Prates is a researcher for the Center of Economic and Social Studies of Fundação João Pinheiro, an institution of Minas Gerais government for economic, social and cultural planning. In the last four years he participated in five research projects focusing on the living conditions in the brazilian municipalities, three of them already published ("Condições de vida nos municípios de Minas Gerais", "Desenvolvimento Humano e Condições de Vida: indicadores brasileiros" and "Desenvolvimento Humano e Condições de Vida: Região Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte"). He graduated in Economics and obtained his master's degree in Urban and Regional Economics at the Regional Development and Planning Center of the Federal University of Minas Gerais."
Roxana Maurizio is an economist, working with the CEDES (Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad) and currently under a special agreement between ECLAC and the Government of Buenos Aires Province.
Malini Mehra is Director of the Centre for Social Markets, an NGO with offices in London and Calcutta promoting corporate social and environmental responsibility, ethics and accountability in public life. Ms Mehra was formerly director of a human rights education NGO, worked as trade policy adviser for Oxfam and campaigns officer for Friends of the Earth International. She has been trained as a political scientist and gender specialist at Smith College (USA), IDS (Univ. of Sussex(UK), and the University of Amsterdam. She is editor of "Human rights and economic globalisation: Directions for the WTO" and written other books and articles on gender, development, environment and human rights issues.
Candido Mendes is President of the Candido Mendes University in Brazil.
Dr. Maznah Mohamad, Associate Professor of Development Studies, School of Social Sciences, University of Science, Malaysia and 1997 Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto.
Solita Collas-Monsod is a Professor of Economics at the University of the Philippines and is the Chair of the Philippine Human Development Network. Her international involvement includes membership in the United Nations Committee on Development Planning (UNCDP) and in the board of the international Food Policy Research Institute. Ms. Monsod served as Minister and later Secretary of Socio-Economic Planning in the Philippines and was also a member of the South Commission. She is a columnist for three Philippine newspapers and hosts a weekly television show where issues of current national interests are debated.
Professor Vitit Muntarbhorn is a barrister of the Middle Temple, London. He is a member of the Faculty of Law at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. He was Chairman of the Drafting Committee and Rapporteur General of the World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Stockholm 1996. He wrote Thailand's first report for the United Nations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). He chaired the preparation of Thailand's first report under the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). He is the Chairperson of Thailand's sub-committee on the child rights, National Youth Bureau. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford and the Free University of Brussels.
Raúl E. Murguía is the National Coordinator of the Small Grants Program of the Global Environment Facility (UNDP-GEF) in Mexico. He is responsible for eight community development projects. As professor, he taught subjects covering anthropology, mathematics, biology, ecology, economics and computational matters. He is author of 41 scientific publications and numerous divulgence articles. He graduated with a degree in ABD in Sciences, Bio anthropology from the University of Copenhagen in 1986 and in Physical Anthropology from the National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico in 1981.
Dr. Rohin Nayyar is currently Senior Adivser in the Rural Development Dept. of India's Planning Commission. She has her PhD from Sussex University.
Bacre Waly Ndiaye is the Director of the New York Office of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights. He was Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Commission on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. Since 1992, Mr. Ndiaye has been President of the Commission for the reform of the legal profession in Senegal and President of the Commission on ethical Practice. He obtained his law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Dakar, Senegal. He received the Human Rights Prize in Geneva in 1994. He is a member of the Board of Directors of several African and international non-governmental organizations.
Siddiq Osmani is Professor of Development Economics at the University of Ulster, United Kingdom. He previously worked at the World Institute for Development Economics Research in Helsinki and the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka. His research interests include poverty, inequality, hunger, famine, nutrition, and development problems in general. He is Special Adviser to the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights on matters related to economic rights.
Ricardo Paes de Barros is affiliated with the Instituto de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada, IPEA/DIPES located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Leif Pagrotsky was appointed Minister for Trade for Sweden in 1997. His portfolio includes bilateral and multilateral trade policy, Baltic Sea issues and European Single Market Affairs. Leif Pagrotsky's professional career has been predominantly in finance. He received his MBA from Gothenburg University - together with courses in Chinese - and soon after started working at the Central Bank of Sweden. He worked at the Ministry of Finance between 1977-1982. After a two year spell as an economist in the OECD he returned to the Ministry of Finance in 1984. Leif Pagrotsky served at the Prime Minister's Office in 1984 and returned again to the Ministry of Finance where he was appointed State Secretary in 1994. Prior to his current position, Leif Pagrotsky was Minister without portfolio at the Prime Minister's Office.
Marcelo Paixao is affiliated with the Instituto de Economia in Brazil.
Ernesto M. Pernia is Lead Economist in the Economics and Development Resource Center of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). His major fields are development economics, human development, urban and regional development, and macroeconomics. He has written a number of books and numerous articles/chapters in international professional journals/edited volumes. Prior to ADB, Dr. Pernia was Professor of Economics and Chairman, Department of Economics at the University of the Philippines. He was also a Research Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu, and Regional Adviser on Population and Employment Policy at the International Labour Organization in Bangkok. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He once served as President of the Philippine Economic Society and Co-Chair of the Federation of ASEAN Economic Associations.
Ann Pettifor co-founded the international Jubilee 2000 movement in Britain in 1996. Ms. Pettifor has been honored with many awards including the Kwame Nkrumah Service Award from Rev. Jesse Jackson on behalf of the Rainbow Push Coalition. She was also awarded the freedom of the city of Callao in Peru, and an honorary doctorate from Newcastle University, for her work in promoting debt relief. Ms Pettifor is the author of several publications on debt, including "Debt - the most potent form of slavery" and "Will the debts of the poorest countries be written off by the year 2000?"
Since receiving his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard, Thomas W. Pogge has been teaching moral and political philosophy at Columbia University. Most of his publications have been on Kant, Rawls, and Global Justice. His work has been supported by the Global Security and Sustainability Program of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study; the Oslo Centre for Advanced Study; the L.S. Rockefeller Fund (at the Princeton University Center for Human Values); the NEH; and the Rockefeller Foundation (at the University of Maryland Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy). He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and a director of the Columbia University Center for the Study of Human Rights.
Seemin Qayum has worked as a consultant for the UNDP GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) since 1997, and was previously SGP National Coordinator in Bolivia (1992-1995). She has degrees in geography and planning and is completing a doctoral thesis in anthropology. Her research has covered Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, India, and the United States.
Tomás Rau is a Professor at the Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Economia.
Ms. Rios-Kohn is Principal Adviser on Human Rights in the Management Development and Governance Division of UNDP. Her duties include ensuring the implementation of the UNDP policy on integrating human rights with sustainable human development adopted in early 1998, in close collaboration with the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights. In this capacity she has designed and conducted a comprehensive training programme for development practitioners on human rights and human development. She has published a number of articles on human rights issues and is frequently invited as a speaker in many international conferences and workshops organized by the United Nations, non-governmental organizations and universities in different parts of the world.
Pablo Rodas-Martini holds a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. from the University of London. He works as an independent consultant. He has done consultancy work for the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the Institute for Ibero-American Studies (IIK), the Human Development Report Office (HDRO), the Inter-American Dialogue, the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) of University of London, FLACSO, ASIES, and Action Aid, among others. He also writes twice a week for El Periódico, a Guatemalan newspaper, on political and economic issues. He has published academic papers on: a) trade and globalization, b) macroeconomics and fiscal policy, c) poverty and human development, and d) determinants of electoral turnout.
Kenneth Roth is the executive director of Human Rights Watch, a post he has held since 1993. From 1987 to 1993 he served as deputy director of the organization. Previously, he was a federal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. He began working on human rights after the declaration of martial law in Poland in 1981, and soon also became deeply engaged in fighting military repression in Haiti. In his seven years as executive director of Human Rights Watch, the organization has doubled in size and has added special projects devoted to refugees, children's rights, academic freedom, international justice, and the human rights responsibilities of multinational corporations.
Claudio Santibáñez Servat is currently completing his Ph.D. in Economics with a thesis in "Measurement of inequality from a multidimensional approach: a basis for policy making". He is a lecturer in the Faculty of Economics of the University of Cambridge. He is also a supervisor of microeconomics for undergraduate students at Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge.
Marta Santos Pais is currently the Director of the Division of Evaluation, Policy and Planning in UNICEF, where her focus is human rights and child rights policy, monitoring and evaluation issues. She was active in the drafting of the Convention of the Rights of the Child. In 1991, Ms. Santos Pais was elected to be a member and rapporteur of the UN Expert Committee on the Rights of the Child. In this role, she accepted considerable responsibility for the analytical and policy work of the committee, as well as the preparation of many of its documents. She is the author of several articles and publications in the field of children's rights.
Professor Johan Saravanamuttu is from the Science University of Malaysia (USM) in Penang where he served as Dean from 1994-1996. In 1997, he was appointed Visiting Chair in ASEAN and international studies at the Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. He has also lectured, presented seminars and papers in numerous conferences on topics such as ASEAN foreign policy, civil society, multicultural democracy, political economy and globalization. He served as Consultant for the "Report on Human Rights in Malaysia" for Human Development Report 2000.
Donald Sawyer is President of the Institute for Society, Population and Nature (ISPN), a non-profit ecosocial think-tank located in Brasilia, which contributes to policy formation for sustainable development. ISPN is responsible for the Technical and Administrative Coordination of the GEF/UNDP Small Grants Program in Brazil. From 1977 to 1990 he was Professor in the Demography Program at the Center for Regional Development and Planning (CEDEPLAR) of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, where he carried out extensive research on the Amazon and Center-West regions. He also teaches in the graduate program at the Center for Sustainable Development of the University of Brasilia. He completed his Ph.D. in Sociology.
Jeffrey Scott is program officer for the Human Rights Initiative of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. He is also completing his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University at Buffalo, with a dissertation entitled "Global Governance and Socioeconomic Rights: Development, Distributive Justice, and Democracy to Meet Basic Human Needs." His most recent publication, "Evaluating Development-Oriented NGOs," will appear later this fall. He served as an agroforestry volunteer with the Peace Corps from 1993 to 1995 in Sierra Leone and Togo.
Arjun K. Sengupta is currently Professor of International Economic Organization, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Research Professor (Hony), Centre for Policy Research Dharm Marg in New Delhi. He is also an Independent Expert (Rapporteur) on the Right to Development for the Human Rights Commission in Geneva. His publications include International Financial Cooperation: Framework of Change (co-authored with Frances Stewart); A Review of the North-South Negotiating Process, Christian Michelsen Institute, Norway, and Commodities, Finance and Trade. Professor Sengupta authored many papers and articles in academic journals and popular magazines. His forthcoming publication is IMF and the LDCs.
A. K. Shivakumar is a Consultant in the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme.
Juana Sotomayor is a fellow in the Human Rights Initiative at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs where she is developing a project entitled, "The Public Legitimacy of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in Rural Ecuador." She is also the Spanish coordinator at the British Council in Quito, Ecuador, and provides pedagogical consulting to the Colegio Einstein's and the Centro Educativo. In 1998, she created a module on environmental laws for the Ecuador National Parks staff. She seeks to apply her background in law and education to improving democratic participation and adult education in Ecuador or the Andean region. Juana received her doctorate in Jurisprudence from the Universidad del Azuay in Ecuador in 1999, and this year received her M.A. in education from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
Matthew Sudders is a Consultant working in the PARIS212 Secretariat of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD).
Miguel Székely is currently Research Economist at the Inter American Development Bank. He has lectured on Development Economics for Latin America at El Colegio de México and ITAM, in Mexico, and at the University of Oxford. He is a specialist on social and economic problems in Latin America and has researched widely on the topics of inequality and poverty in Mexico and Latin America. Recent academic publications include, "The Economics of Poverty, Inequality and Wealth Accumulation in Mexico" and "Income Distribution, Factor Endowments and Trade Openness". He has a Ph.D. in Economics and masters degrees in Economics for Development and Public Policy.
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Jean-François Tremeaud is currently Executive Director of the International Labour Office and Director of the International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin. He has a long-standing career which started in the ILO Office in Paris, France in 1969. He received his graduate diploma from the Institute of Political Sciences in the University of Paris.
André Urani is Secretary of Labor of the State of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
Roberto H. Valentin is a Trustee at the Rotary Foundation. He was President of Eric's Snack Products, Inc. He serves on the Board of Directors of Banco Santander (Puerto Rico), the Cardiovascular Hospital, and the Caribbean Business Weekly Newspaper. Since 1966, Mr. Valentin has demonstrated his commitment to international human development by serving Rotary International in various capacities, including World Vice-president (1987-88) and Director (1986-88). Rotary International is the umbrella association, which provides guidance and resources to support the efforts of more than 29,700 clubs and 1.2 million members around the world. He is a firm believer in "leading by example," joining his local Rotary club in 1966 to more actively support and address the needs of his own and other communities.
Dr. Enrique Vasquez is Assistant Professor at the University of Pacifico, where he conducts research in the Economics Department, specializing in Social Policy. He is the Executive Director of the Development Center of Small Enterprises. He has a PhD in Political Science from Oxford University.
Joanna Weschler is the United Nations representative for Human Rights Watch in New York. Her responsibilities include both the New York and Geneva-based U.N. bodies. She is currently responsible for ongoing formulation of HRW's strategy toward the U.N.; review of editorial content of organization's publications related to the U.N.; overseeing and coordinating HRW's staff work with the U.N. bodies, its diplomatic community and the U.N. press corps; speaking to the media on U.N. and human rights related issues; and participating as a speaker in public events and regularly representing HRW at the United Nations Human Rights Commission and several U.N. meetings in New York, Geneva and Vienna. Ms. Weschler is a native of Poland and has lived in the U.S. since 1982. She was the only reporter allowed into many of the tensest and most crucial crisis meetings between Union President Lech Walesa and the communist government, and meetings of the executive leadership of the union.
Nune Yeghiazarian started working for the United Nations, Yerevan Armenia in 1997, as National Project Coordinator for the preparation of NHDR 1998 "The Role of the State", 1999 "Five Years of Human Development in Armenia"; 2000 "Human Rights and Human Development: Action for Progress". She contributed to the establishment of the Human Development Experts Club, comprising all experts of NHDR 95-2000 and conduct meetings to discuss issues of human development, prepare policy documents for interested actors and disseminate the concept of SHD through media, lectures and training's.. Ms. Yeghiazarian worked in the World Bank, Washington DC, USA as consultant to Country Department IV, Europe and Central Asia region on the preparation of a poverty assessment issues paper, prepared necessary documentation for the "Armenian Education Financing and Management Project". In 1997 Ms. Yeghiazarian graduated from Harvard University, John Kennedy School of Government with a Master in Public Administration.