Authors
Mariano Aguirre is managing director of the Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre (Noref), Oslo. He is author of several books about international politics, former programme officer at the Ford Foundation and fellow of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Ahmed H. al-Rahim is assistant professor of Islamic studies in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia, USA. His areas of research include medieval Muslim intellectual history, broadly conceived, but especially the history of Avicennan philosophy, and modern Islamic political thought.
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Martin Albrow is distinguished visiting fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE) and emeritus professor of the University of Wales. In the 1970s, he was head of the sociology department at University College Cardiff. He has been a visiting professor at Roehampton University, the University of Munich, the University of Cambridge, the LSE, and Stony Brook University. He has worked on globalization and global issues since the late 1980s and is the author of The Global Age (1996) as well... read more >>
José Antonio Alonso, director of the Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI) in Madrid, Spain. He has a PhD in economics and is professor of applied economics at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, and is also member of the United Nations Economic and Social Council's Committee for Development Policy and the Cooperation for Development Committee in Spain. He recently edited: Financiación del Desarrollo: Viejos Recursos, nuevas propuestas (Siglo XXI Editores, 2009).
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Ernest Aryeetey - Institute for Social, Statistical and Economic Research (ISSER), Accra, Ghana.
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George B.N. Ayittey - American University, Washington, DC, USA.
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Dina Balabanova, PhD, is a lecturer in Health Policy/Systems at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and has worked previously in development assistance. Since 2001, she has led research on access to care, informal payments, community financing, and systems responses to chronic disease (diabetes, hypertension, tuberculosis) in low-resource settings. Currently she is working on a project seeking to examine the health systems contribution to good health, and identifying the rol... read more >>
Edward B. Barbier, John S. Bugas professor of economics at the University of Wyoming's department of economics and finance in the United States. He is the author of A Global Green New Deal: Rethinking the Economic Recovery (Cambridge University Press, 2010), an expanded version of the consultancy report on the Global Green New Deal he was commissioned to write for the United Nations Environment Programme.
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Danielle Barret is project manager in the research and strategy directorate, International Research Centre for Agricultural Development (CIRAD). Previously she worked for the ministries of Research and of Cooperation as attaché for research in developing countries; for the Embassy of France in Lagos, Nigeria, as cultural and scientific attaché; and deputy director of the Centre National des Œuvres Universitaires et Scolaires (CNOUS), which deals with foreign students in France (1992–1999).... read more >>
Françoise Barten joined the Nijmegen Institute for International Health at Radboud University, Nijmegen in 1991. Prior to that she worked for many years in Central America, with civil society initiatives (Guatemala) and for the Ministry of Health in deprived communities and in informal urban settlements. She is a senior scientist at the Radboud University Medical Centre in the department of public health, and has been awarded the title of profesora honoraria at the School of Public Health o... read more >>
