Speakers & Moderators
Information on the conference's speakers and panelists
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Global Human Security and Development (moderator) |
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Global Trade and Investment (moderator) |
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Global Health |
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Global Health (moderator) |
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Global Health |
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Keynote Speaker
Kemal Derviş
Kemal Derviş started as the new head of the United Nations Development Programme, the UN's global development network, on 15 August 2005. He is also the Chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee consisting of the heads of all UN funds, programmes and departments working on development issues.
Prior to his appointment with UNDP, Mr. Derviş was a member of the Turkish Parliament representing Istanbul from November 2002 to June 2005. During this time, he represented the Turkish Parliament in the Constitutional Convention on the Future of Europe and was a member of the joint commission of the Turkish and European Parliaments.
From March 2001 to August 2002, Kemal Derviş was Minister for Economic Affairs and the Treasury without party affiliation of the Republic of Turkey, responsible for Turkey’s recovery programme after the devastating financial crisis that hit the country in February 2001. In August of 2002, after the crisis was overcome, he resigned from his Ministerial post and was elected to Parliament in November of the same year.
Kemal Derviş earned his Bachelor and Master’s degrees in economics from the London School of Economics and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. From 1973 to 1977 he was member of the economics faculties of the Middle East Technical University and then Princeton University. In 1977 he joined the World Bank where he worked until he returned to Turkey in 2001.
At the World Bank he held various positions including Division Chief for Industrial and Trade Strategy, Director for the Central Europe Department, Vice-President of the World Bank for the Middle East and North Africa Region and Vice-President for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management.
Kemal Derviş has published many articles in academic journals as well as current affairs publications on topics ranging from mathematical models of growth and social mobility and quantitative models of trade, to European enlargement and transatlantic relations. His latest publication is "A Better Globalization: Legitimacy, Governance and Reform" published by Brookings Press (2005) for the Center for Global Development.
Panelists
Ann Florini
Ann Florini is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where she directs the program on New Approaches to Global Governance. She also co-chairs the international Task Force on Transparency, part of an international consortium spearheaded by the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University and directs the World Economic Forum's Global Governance Initiative.
From 1997 to 2002, Dr. Florini was Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 1996 to 1997 she served as research director of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Project on World Security. She was Senior Researcher at the Center for International and Strategic Affairs at UCLA from 1987 to 1992. From 1983 to 1987 she was at the United Nations Association of the USA, where she created and directed the Project on Multilateral Issues and Institutions.
Dr. Florini received her Ph.D. in political science from UCLA and an M.A. in Public Affairs from Princeton University.
Her most recent publication is The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World.
Leon Fuerth
Leon Fuerth is Research Professor of International Affairs and J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of International Affairs at the Elliott School at George Washington University. Before beginning his work on Capitol Hill in 1979, Fuerth spent eleven years as a foreign service officer, serving in such places as the U.S consulate in Zagreb and the State Department.
Mr. Feurth is the former national security adviser to Vice President Al Gore. In the early 1980s, Fuerth worked with then-Congressman Gore on issues of arms control and strategic stability. When Gore was elected to the Senate in 1985, Fuerth joined his staff as senior legislative assistant for national security. When Gore became vice president, he appointed Fuerth to be his national security adviser. Fuerth served on the Principals' Committee of the National Security Council, alongside the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the President's own national security adviser.
He holds a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in history from New York University, as well as a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University.
Bernard Hoekman
Bernard Hoekman is Research Manager of the International Trade group in the Development Research Group of the World Bank. Before taking up his present position he managed the international trade and global integration activities of the World Bank Institute's Economic Policy division.
Dr. Hoekman has worked extensively in countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Between 1988 and 1993 he was on the staff of the GATT Secretariat in Geneva. He is currently a Research Fellow of the London-based Centre for Economic Policy Research. His current research focuses on the functioning of the multilateral trading system (WTO), international transactions in services, the relationship between competition and trade policy, the economics of regional economic integration, and channels of international technology diffusion.
He is a graduate of the Erasmus University Rotterdam and holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
Ruth Levine
Ruth Levine is Director of Programs and Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development. She is a health economist with 15 years of experience working on health and family planning financing issues in Latin America, Eastern Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. At CGD, Dr. Levine sets priorities and manages programs that use research to address practical policy challenges; she also manages the Global Health Policy Research Network.
Dr. Levine previously designed, supervised, and evaluated health sector loans at the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. She also conducted research on the health sector, and led the World Bank's knowledge management activities in health economics and finance between 1999 and 2002. Between 1997 and 1999, she served as the advisor on the social sectors in the Office of the Executive Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank. Dr. Levine has published on health and family planning finance topics and is the co-author of the books The Health of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (World Bank, 2001), Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health (CGD, 2004) and and Making Markets for Vaccines: Ideas to Action (CGD, 2005).
She holds a B.S. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Economic Demography from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene.
David Molyneux
David Molyneux is the Director of the Lymphatic Filariasis Support Centre, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Tropical Health Sciences at the University of Liverpool. Starting in 1991, Dr. Molyneux was the Director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Tropical Health Sciences of The University of Liverpool. Previously, he was a Professor of Biology, Chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences and Dean of Science at the University of Salford where he was a Faculty member from 1977-91.
In the context of his work, Dr. Molyneux has extensively traveled in Africa as well as the Middle and Far East and Latin America. He has published over 300 papers in biological science journals, written over 20 reviews and contributions to books as well as a textbook on trypanosomes and leishmania. He has acted as a consultant to organizations including WHO, FAO, UNDP, the World Bank and the UK government (DFID), and served on national and international review committees of Welcome Trust, Medical Research Council and the World Health Organization.
He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in parasitology from Cambridge University.
James Rosenau
James Rosenau is University Professor of International Affairs at the George Washington University. He is a renowned international political theorist with a record of publication and professional service that is acknowledged worldwide. His scholarship has focused on globalization, the dynamics of change in world politics, and the overlap of domestic and foreign affairs, resulting in more than 40 books and 200 articles. His most recent publications include On the Cutting Edge of Globalization: Dynamics Beyond Globalization (2005); Distant Proximities: Dynamics Beyond Globalization (2003); Information Technologies and Global Politics: The Changing Scope of Power and Governance (2002); Strange Power: Shaping the Parameters of International Relations and International Political Economy (2000); Thinking Theory Thoroughly: Coherent Approaches to an Incoherent World (2000); Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier: Exploring Governance in a Turbulent World (1997); Global Voices (1993); Government without Governance (1992); and Turbulence in World Politics: A Theory of Change and Continuity (1990).
Dr. Rosenau has held a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and is a former president of the International Studies Association. He is currently the Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Globalization at the George Washington University.
He holds a B.A. from Bard College, an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Jan Aart Scholte
Jan Aart Scholte is Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Warwick University, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation. Prior to coming to Warwick, he taught at the University of Sussex, Brighton and the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague.
Dr. Scholte's current research focuses on questions of democratizing the governance of globalization. He is the author of Globalization: A Critical Introduction (Palgrave, 2000; 2nd edition forthcoming in 2005) and International Relations of Social Change (Open University Press, 1993), co-author of Contesting Global Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and editor of Civil Society and Global Finance (Routledge, 2002). Dr. Scholte is also an active member of the Steering Committee of the Globalization Studies Network.
He earned his B.A. in International Relations from Pomona College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Sussex.
Inder Sud
Inder Sud is Adjunct Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at the Elliott School at George Washington University. An economist with extensive background and experience in economic development in developing countries, Dr. Sud worked at the World Bank for over 20 years. His significant assignments included: Director for the Middle East (1995-2001); Director, Cofinancing and Financial Advisory Services (1992-1995); Senior Advisor, South Asia (1991-1992); Chief, Industry, Trade and Finance, East Asia (1987-1990) and Chief, Urban Development and Water Supply, East Asia and the Pacific (1979-1987).
Dr. Sud is also Senior Partner of Washington Associates International, an international consulting firm specializing in issues of international development and finance. He has also taught part-time at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.
He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Economics from Stanford University.
Jiawen Yang
Jiawen Yang is Professor of International Business and International Affairs at the George Washington University. He joined the George Washington University in 1994, and has been teaching courses in international trade and finance, emerging markets, and China's business environment. He has also taught at New York University, Vanderbilt University, Beijing University, and the University of International Business and Economics in China.
Dr. Yang's current research focuses on exchange rate pass-through, international capital flows and their impact on emerging markets, international business strategies for small and medium-sized firms, and the Chinese economy. His research has appeared in The Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of International Economics, International Review of Economics & Finance, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, The International Trade Journal, and other academic journals. Dr. Yang is also the author of many book chapters and co-author of two books on economic sanctions.
He received his PhD in International Business from New York University and his MA in International Economics from the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing.
Moderators
Hossein Askari
Hossein Askari received all his education, including his Ph.D. in International Economics and Finance, at MIT. He was an instructor at MIT, Assistant Professor at Tufts University, and Associate Professor and Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He served for two and a half years on the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund representing Saudi Arabia and was Special Advisor to the Minister of Finance of Saudi Arabia, after which he came to the School of Business at the George Washington University in 1982. He was the Director of an international team of energy experts that designed the first long-term energy plan for Saudi Arabia in the mid-1980s. During 1990-1991 he was asked by the governments of Iran and Saudi Arabia to act as an intermediary to restore bi-lateral diplomatic relations that had been ruptured in 1987; during 1991-1992 he was asked by the Government of Kuwait to intermediate to improve bi-lateral relations with Iran. He has written extensively on Islamic economics and finance, the economies of the Middle East, international trade and finance, and on agricultural economics.
In the past, he has consulted with the U.S. General Accounting Office, the United Nations, the World Bank, IFC, OPIC, the Gulf Cooperation Council, the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, the Ministry of Finance of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, Bechtel, ARCO, SUNOCO, First National Bank of Chicago, National Commercial Bank, Eastman Chemicals and other companies and organizations.
Joseph Cordes
Professor Cordes received his Ph.D in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1977. He has been on the faculty of The George Washington University since 1975. He was a Brookings Economic Policy Fellow in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, US Treasury Department in 1980-81. From 1989-1991 he was Deputy Assistant Director for Tax Analysis at the Congressional Budget Office. Professor Cordes currently directs the University's Ph.D Program in Public Policy, and is an Associate Scholar at the Urban Institute.
Professor Cordes is a member of the National Tax Association, and the American Economic Association. Dr. Cordes is co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Taxation and Tax Policy (Urban Institute Press). He has published articles on tax policy, government regulation, and government spending in numerous journals and has contributed been a contributor to several books, including The Economics of Technological Change on Employment and Growth (Ballinger), State Taxation of Business (Praeger), Labor Market Adjustments in the Pacific Basin (Kluwer-Nijhof), Cooperative Research and Development: The Industry-University-Government Relationship (Kluwer-Nijhof), and Readings in Public Policy (Basil Blackwell).
John Forrer
John Forrer is Director of the GW Center for the Study of Globalization; Director, International Programs GW School of Business; Assistant Adjunct Professor of International Business; and Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Public Administration. Prof. Forrer teaches and manages several administrative activities, including international university partnerships, study abroad, international training raising external funding for research and educational programs. Professor Forrer is on the editorial board of Globalizations (Taylor & Francis) and cofounder of two organizations dedicated to advancing understanding of globalization: The Globalization Research Network—a university consortium of UCLA, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and University of South Florida—funded by the U.S. Congress; The Global Studies Network—a consortium of worldwide globalization research centers committed to collaborative research and educational activities.
Professor Forrer’s current research activities include the economic consequences of U.S. economic sanctions, privatization and public private partnerships and global governance.
Professor Forrer received his dual Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Public Administration from Miami University, his Master in Public Administration from Syracuse University and his Doctoral degree in Public Administration from The George Washington University.
