The role of the Advisory Panel is to provide strategic guidance and feedback to the team at the Human Development Report Office, in preparation of the 2012 and 2013 Human Development Reports.
Professor Ayensu is former Chairman of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, (CSIR) Ghana and former Chairman of the World Bank Inspection Panel. He is a founding Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, and is a fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford; the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences; and the New York Academy of Sciences. He was twice awarded the Ghana National Science Award and is the recipient of the Outstanding Service Award from the United States National Museum of Natural History. Read more
Professor Buarque is currently a Senator and Chairman of the Committee on Education. He is also a full member of the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee, of the Human Rights and Participative Legislation Committee, and of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Mercosur. In the past, Professor Buarque was the Governor of the Federal District of Brazil and president of the Brazilian NGO Missao Crianca which promotes education for low-income children. He also served as Minister of Education and was Dean of the University of Brasilia. Read more
Mr. Elliott is currently CEO of the Washington DC based NGO ONE, the global development advocacy NGO started by Bono. Prior to joining ONE, he served as editor of TIME International, Deputy Managing Editor of TIME Magazine, and was also a columnist on the global economy for Fortune magazine. Before that, he worked at the Economist as a political editor and Washington bureau chief and was the founding author of both the “Bagehot” and “Lexington” columns. Read more
Professor Ghosh is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She was awarded the ILO Decent Work Research Prize in 2010 and the Nord Sud Social Science Research Prize from the Fondazione Pescarabruzzo in 2010. She was also the principal author of the West Bengal Human Development Report which has received the UNDP Prize for excellence in analysis. Read more
Professor Guillaumont is the President of the Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International (FERDI). He is Professor Emeritus at the Université d'Auvergne, a member of the CERDI (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International), which he founded in 1976, and is Director of the Revue d'Economie du Développement. He is also a member of the European Development Network (EUDN) and Fellow of the Oxford Center for Studies on African Economies (CSAE). Read more
Dr. Hvidt is currently the Director of the Danish Institute for International Studies. In the past she has served as Director of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department for the UN and the World Bank; and Director of the Department for East, West and Central Africa. She earlier served as Embassy Counsellor at the Danish Permanent Representation in Brussels. Dr. Hvidt has also served at the Directorate General for Development at the European Commission. Read more
Dr. Khalaf is Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). In the past she served as Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where she launched pioneering projects receiving international honours, including the Prince Claus Award and the King Hussein Leadership Prize. Prior to joining UNDP, Ms. Khalaf held many senior policymaking positions in Jordan, including Minister for Industry and Trade (1993-1995), Minister for Planning (1995-1998) and Deputy Prime Minister (1999-2000). As head of the ministerial economic team, she led the drive to reform and modernize the economy while simultaneously implementing a social package for building human capabilities, alleviating poverty and strengthening the social safety net. Read more
Professor Lustig is Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics at Tulane University and a nonresident fellow at the Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue. Prior to joining Tulane, she was Shapiro Visiting Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University; Director of the Poverty Group at UNDP; President and Professor of the Department of Economics of the Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico; Senior Advisor and Chief of the Poverty and Inequality Unit at the Inter-American Development Bank; Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Studies Program of the Brookings Institution; and Professor at the Center of Economic Studies, El Colegio de Mexico. Read more
Professor Malone was appointed President of IDRC on July 1st, 2008. Prior to that, he served as Canada`s High Commissioner to India and non-resident Ambassador to Bhutan and Nepal. Other positions he has held include: Assistant Deputy Minister in Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade; President, International Peace Academy; Director General of Policy, International Organizations and Global Issues Bureaus, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada; and Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations. He has taught at several universities, including Columbia and NYU. Read more
Sir James Alexander Mirrlees is an economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is currently Master of the Morningside College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and also emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has also taught at MIT and Oxford. Read more
Dr. Pachauri has chaired the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002 and has been director general of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) since 2001. He has been a leader in the global climate policy debate and played a major role in laying the groundwork for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. He accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC, which shared the honour with former Vice President Al Gore. He is also head of Yale’s Climate and Energy Institute. Read more
Former Minister of Finance Mr. Radwan is Egypt’s former Minister of Finance and has served with ILO as adviser to the director general on development policies and counsellor on Arab countries. Mr. Radwan was also the managing director of the Economic Research Forum and a consultant to the General Authority for Investment in Egypt. Read more
Dr. Ramli served as Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance of Indonesia under the administration of President Wahid. Dr. Ramli was Chair of the Financial Sector Committee (KKSK) and the Chair of the Presidential Decision 133 Team to conduct renegotiations with private electricity generators. Dr. Ramli was also Chairman of Bulog, Indonesia's large rice procurement agency. Read more
Gustav Ranis is the Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics at Yale University. He was Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies from 1995 to 2003, a Carnegie Corporation Scholar from 2004 to 2006, Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale from 1967 to 1975, Assistant Administrator for Program and Policy at USAID from 1965 to 1967, and Director of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics from 1958 to 1961. Professor Ranis has more than 20 books and 300 articles on theoretical and policy-related issues of development to his credit. Read more
Dani Rodrik is the Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Professor Rodrik was awarded the inaugural Albert O. Hirschman Prize of the Social Science Research Council in 2007. He has also received the Leontief Award for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought, honorary doctorates from the University of Antwerp and Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, and research grants from the Carnegie Corporation, Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation. He is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), Center for Global Development, and Council on Foreign Relations. Read more
Professor Stewart is currently Emeritus Professor of Development Economics and is past Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) at Oxford University. She is currently president of the Human Development and Capabilities Association. In 2009 she was the recipient of the Mahbub ul Haq Award in recognition of her lifetime achievements in promoting human development and named one of fifty outstanding technological leaders for 2003 by Scientific American. Read more
Dr. Miguel Székely is the former Undersecretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Ministry of Social Development in Mexico. Prior to his work with the Ministry, Dr. Székely served as Chief of the Unit for Regional Development in the Executive Office for Strategic Planning and Regional Development. He has extensive experience in development economic research, having served as a specialist in the social sector of the research department at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C. He has also held positions as professor and researcher at the Economic Studies Centre at El Colegio de México and professor at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. Dr. Székely has published widely on poverty, inequality, and household income and savings distribution. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Oxford University.
Mr. Kandeh K. Yumkella is the Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). In addition, Mr. Yumkella has served in various other capacities within the United Nations system including as Chair of UN-Energy, a system-wide coordination body of the United Nations dealing with energy-related issues and as Chair of the Secretary-General’s Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change (AGECC). More recently he was appointed as Co-Chair of the High-level Group on Sustainable Energy for All and he also serves as a member of the Rio+20 Principals Group as well as the United Nations Development Group (UNDG). Prior to working for UNIDO, he was the Minister for Trade, Industry and State Enterprises of the Republic of Sierra Leone from 1994-1995. Read more
