Abdullah,
Moha Asri
BA (Hons-MU), MA
(Essex) and Ph.D (London), is the Deputy Director and associate Professor
at the Centre for Policy Research, University Science Malaysia, Penang.
He teaches on small business management, however, his interest and research
focus is mainly on development economics, specifically the development
of small and medium enterprises. He has published 12 books and over 20
papers in renowned journals, and presented a number of papers to international
conferences. His recent books include: 'Foreign Workers in Malasysia (co-author); 'Foreign Labour in Asia' (co-author); 'Small and Medium Enterprises in Malaysia'; 'Management
of Small Enterprises'; 'Small and Medium Enterprises in Asian
Pacific Countries' (main editor).
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Ashley,
Leonard R.N
Leonard R.N. Ashley, Ph.D (Princeton), LHD (Columbia Theological, Hon),
is Professor Emeritus of Brooklyn College of The City University of New
York. He is the editor of over 50 books. He is the President of The American
Society of Geolinguistics (founded by Mario Pei in 1965), and the Secretary
of The International Linguistic Association. He has also been the director
of four international conferences on geolinguistics.
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Banerjee,
Rama Prosad
Dr. Rama
Prosad Banerjee has an MBA and Ph.D in Management from the University
of Calcutta, India, and has worked in the industry for more than a decade.
He has taught MBA students at premier B-Schools in India and has conducted
many Indian and international seminars on the area of Sustainability,
Values and Mind Engineering.
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Bruner,
Michael Lane
Michael
Lane Bruner was executive director of the experimental Pipeline Theater
and cofounder of the critically acclaimed performance poetry troupes The
Lost Tribe and the Carma Burns in Los Angeles in the 1980s. After obtaining
his MA in performance theory and his Ph.D. in rhetorical and critical
theory, he has gone on to engage in teaching about and researching on
the political power of language. His current research is on critical globalization
studies and theories of the public.
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Chopra, Parvesh K.
PhD (England), PhD (India), M. Phil. (Economics), PG D. Statistics, M.A (Economics), B.A. (Honours), is currently a Senior Research Economist for the Centre for the Study of Human Development, Leeds, England (UK). He has taught Economics at different levels for many years before joining the Department of Economics, School of Business Studies, The University of Leeds, England as a Doctoral Researcher. He was awarded his second PhD from the University of Leeds, England. He has published research papers extensively in refereed international journals of repute and has authored singly or jointly more than 12 research books. His recent research book Poverty As Human Contestability Failure was published in the year 2007. Dr. Chopra research has ranged over a number of areas including poverty and inequality, gender issues human resource development, economics of pharmaceutical products, rural development, globalization and health economics. Dr. Chopra is actively associated with the International Journal of Human Development as its Managing Editor and is a member of the Royal Economic Society (UK).
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DeMourot,
Giles R
Giles R. DeMourot holds a Doctorate in Law (JD), an MBA, a B.Sc. in Pharmacology
and a BA in Classical Arabic, all from US Universities. Over the years
he has served in the US Government in various capacities, both in the
US and overseas. He then joined the private sector, working mainly in
Europe including the UK. He now resides in France.
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Ghosh,
B.N
B.N. Ghosh, PhD (India), M.CIM (UK), GFCR (Harvard), is currently a Professor of Economics, Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus. A specialist in Human resource Development and Political Economy, he has published extensively in refereed journals. His books are published, among others, by Arnold Heinemann, Longman, Macmillan, Routledge, Nova Science Publications of New York, Ashgate Publishing and Wisdom House of England. He has undertaken short-term consultancies for various organizations including the University Grants Commission and the United Nations Development Programme. Professor Ghosh is the Director (Hon.) of the Centre for the Study of Human Development in Leeds (England), and the Editor of International Journal of Human Development, Leeds (England).
Professor Ghosh’s research has ranged over a number of areas including political economy, human resource development, economics, sociology, and anthropology. Some of his recent publications include: Global Financial Crises and Reforms (ed.), (Routledge, London and New York, 2001); Privatisation: The ASEAN Connection (Nova Science Publications, New York, 2000); Gandhian Political Economy (Ashgate Publishing, London, 2006); Contemporary Issues in Development Economics (Routledge, London and New York); Economic Theories: Past and Present (Wisdom House, England, 2001); Contemporary Issues in Modern Macroeconomic Management ((Wisdom House, England, 2005) and Globalization and the Third World (co-ed.), (Macmillan, London and New York. 2006). Professor Ghosh is the recipient of the Emerald Award (UK) for 2005.
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Gopal
K. Kanji
Professor Kanji, who is the Director of Kanji Quality
Culture Ltd., is also Emeritus Professor of applied statistics at Sheffield
Hallam University. He is also the founder editor of the two international
journals namely, Journal of Applied Statistics and that of Total Quality
Management. With a career spanning 38+ years in the field of statistics
and quality, incorporating teaching, publishing journals and books, writing
technical papers and presenting research findings around the world, Professor
Kanji is an enthusiastic teacher, trainer, researcher and innovator.
Having published more than 70 research papers and 15 books in Statistics and Total Quality Management, Professor Kanji is a very active fellow member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and a promoter of ASQ in the UK. He was appointed as Vice Chair of the International Chapter of the ASQ for Europe and the Middle East. In addition to presenting papers at other high profile international conferences he presents papers at the Annual ASQ Congress. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Statisticians and of the Royal Statistical Society, a Member of the International Statistical Institute and an Academician of the International Academy for Quality (IAQ). As a renowned teacher and consultant, his lectures have inspired audiences and individuals around the world and as Chairman of the EMPTQM group he has helped to develop a European Masters programme in Total quality management under the umbrella of EFQM.
Professor Kanji has organised and chaired 8 World Congresses for Total quality Management, in the UK, Russia and Italy, Dubai and has been appointed by the European Commission to act as a technical expert for the development of the European Customer Satisfaction Index. Through his company, Kanji Quality Culture Ltd., he has introduced a Business Excellence Model to measure stakeholders’ satisfaction within organisations.
He has been appointed President of the European Society for Organisational Excellence (ESOE), Vice-President of the International Foundation for Customer Focus IFCF) and visiting professor at Leicester University. He has received (2002) Grant Medal from ASQ.
Malhotra,
Vinay K
Vinay K Malhotra, B.A (Honours), M.A (Gold Medalist), Ph.D, has been
engaged in teaching and research for 23 years. He has published 12 books,
25 papers and 4 book reviews mainly in the area of international relations.
He is a life member of the IAAS, IPSA, IACS, IACIS-Hyderabad, ILI-New
Delhi, IIPA-New Delhi and has completed collaborative research with American,
Canadian, Russian and Hungarian Professors.
He is the Professor of Political Science and International Relations at
the Post-graduate Dept. of Political Science, Gandhi Memorial National
College (Kurukshetra University), Ambala Cantonment - 133 001, India.
The University College of the Cariboo, Kamloops, BC, Canada has given
him the status of affiliate and visiting Professor. He has also worked
in Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Hungary and the Copenhagen
Peace Research Institute, Denmark. He has also visited Russia, Austria,
France, Norway and Sweden for academic and research purposes.
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Marquis,
Mel
Mel
Marquis obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Seattle at the University
of Washington, and after serving as an officer of the US Army, attended
Seton Hall Law School in Newark, N.J. He was awarded his J.D. magna
cum laude in 1998, graduated a semester early,
and was admitted to the New York and New Jersey bars.
In the Spring of 1998, Mr. Marquis worked as a stagiaire for
Judge Rafael García-Valdecasas at the Court of First Instance in
Luxembourg. His experience in Luxembourg prompted him to begin giving
guest lectures to American law students interested in community law.
After working as an attorney in the United States, Mr. Marquis spent a
year as a William J. Fulbright legal research scholar at the European
University Institute in Florence, Italy. His research, focused particularly
on EC competition law and the regulated industries, culminated in his
book Introducing Free Markets and Competition to the Electricity Sector
in
Europe.
Mr Marquis currently works in Brussels as an associate for Van Bael &
Bellis. At the moment he is concentrating his personal research on intellectual
property issues within the antitrust context, as well as emerging issues
such as the impact of antitrust on the media, telecommunications, and
the internet. He will be lecturing on EC competition law this Summer as
a guest at the University of Parma.
Mohan,
Vasundhara
Vasundhara
Mohan obtained her Ph.D, in Political Science from the South Asia Studies
Centre of the Rajasthan University at Jaipur in India for her work on
the Muslim minorities of Sri Lanka. Her work on the status of the Muslim
community in Sri Lanka has been published 'Muslims of Sri Lanka, Aalekh,
Jaipur: 1985' as well as her doctoral dissertation 'Identity
Crisis of the Muslims of Sri Lanka; Mittal, Delhi: 1987'. She later
joined the Centre for Soviet Studies of the Bombay University in India.
Continuing her post-Doctoral research, she worked on the nationalities
problems in the Soviet Union, US-Soviet Relations and other contemporary
issues. An alumni of the Salzburg Seminar, she continues to teach and
guide research at the Centre (now renamed Centre for Central Eurasian
Studies). Her publications include Soviet Foreign Policy in South Asia:
A Case Study of Sri Lanka and Bangladesh; Soviet Union Under Gorbachev;
and Evaluation of the Gorbachev Era. This work is the result of her research
carried out under field trip from the Indian Council of Social Science
Research.
Vasundhara Mohan
lives in Mumbai (Bombay), India.
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Mwijage,
Ludovick S
Ludovick S Mwijage, was born on the 8th of June 1951 in Bukoba, Tanzania.
He was a teacher and head teacher in Tanzania from 1974 to 1983. In December
1983, he was detained without trial for advocating social and political
reforms in his country. His incarceration lasted until April 1985; details
of this experience have been published.
Between 1989 and 1996 he was editor and publisher of the journal, 'Tanzania
Argus' - Overseas Edition (later 'African Angus' ).
He is currently exiled in Denmark and is reading law at Holborn College
(University of Wolverhampton) in England.
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Srinivas,
Burra
Dr. Burra Srinivas is working as Research Associate with the Centre for
Organization Development (COD), a premiere research, training and consultancy
organization. He is specialising in the areas of corporate governance,
leadership, communication, and human resource management. He has multi-disciplinary
skills with political economy perspective. This apart, he is also working
on the management of natural resources and its impact on rural/tribal
area development. His name is published in Marquis Who's Who
in the World, 1999 and 2000, USA.
The University of Hyderabad awarded him doctorate in the year 2000 for his thesis in Public Policy. Earlier, he has completed his Master's degree from Mahatma Gandhi University, M.Phil from University of Hyderabad and also LL.B from Osmania University. He has a book and more than 20 publications in Indian and Foreign journals. Prior to joining COD, he was working as an ICSSR Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Economic & Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad. As a faculty of COD, he has undertaken a project on "Soil & Moisture Conservation Works and Tribal Development: Sustainability and Effectiveness".
Currently, he is working on the following projects (i) "Role of Independent Directors in Company Board", (ii) "People and Forests in India, Nepal and Bangladesh- Sustainability of Natural Resource and Enhancing Rural Livelihood: Political Economy Perspective" and (iii) "Role Effectiveness of Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) in Tribal Development of Andhra Pradesh".
Prof
M H Bala Subrahmanya
is an Associate Professor (Economics)
at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science
(IISc), Bangalore. He has done M.A. (First Rank and Gold Medallist)
from Mysore University and Ph.D. in Economics from Institute for Social & Economic
Change (ISEC), Bangalore. His Research Paper titled, 'Shifts
in India's Small Industry Policy' won
an award from the Intermediate Technology Development Group, London
in 1997. He won the Commonwealth Fellowship in
1999-2000 and worked as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Foundation
for Small and Medium Enterprise Development, University of Durham,
Durham, United Kingdom during February - July 2000. He has been awarded Japan
Foundation Fellowship for
the year 2004/05. He has published research papers in reputed national
as well as international journals. He is the principal author of the
book titled, R&D and Technological Innovations in Small Scale
Industries.
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Inozemtsev,
Vladislav
Vladislav L. Inozemtsev (b. 1968) is a Professor in the Economics
Department of Moscow State University and Director of the Centre for
Post-Industrial Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences. Professor
Inozemtsev has authored eight books on theoretical aspects of contemporary
international economy and economic history published in Russia during
1995-2000, as well as over 140 articles in the Russian academic press.
One of his books has been translated into French (V.L. Inozemtsev,
Contribution à la théorite de la formation post-économique
de la société, Paris, 1996) and another one into
English (V.L. Inozemtsev, The Constitution of the Post-Economic
State: Post-Industrial Theories and Post-Economic Trends in the Contemporary
World, Aldershot, England, 1998). Between 1997-2000, he
translated into Russian and edited several books by Western economists
and sociologists, including The Calculus of Consent and The Limits
of Liberty by James Buchanan, The Coming of Post-Industrial
Society by Daniel Bell as well as the anthology Modern
Post-Industrial Wave in the West comprising excerpts from
the works of Lester Thurow, Peter Drucker, Francis Fukuyama, John
K. Galbraith, A. Etzioni, etc.
From 1994 Vladislav
L. Inozemtsev has been Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Moscow-Paris
Commercial Bank. In 1998-1999 he was invited to Harvard University, USA
as a visiting lecturer on Russian Economics. Since 1997 Vladislav L. Inozemtsev
has been living in Moscow and Paris.
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Vishwanatha
After
obtaining his Master's degree in Economics from the University of Mysore
in 1991, Vishwanatha joined as lecture in the Post Graduate Department
of Economics, University of Mysore, and has been teaching various papers
in Economics. He was awarded UGC-teacher fellowship for his doctoral research,
pursued at the Institute of Development Studies, Mysore. Vishwanatha has
guided Ph.D scholars on agriculture and associated problems. Many of his
research papers have been presented and debated in various academic circles
and he has been involved in organizing different academic programmes.
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Kauppi,
P.K.
Dr. Kauppi's management engineering background and industrial project
development experience is truly international. He has degrees in mechanical
engineering from Finland, in pulp and paper engineering from Sweden, as
well as an M.S. and PhD in management engineering from the US. He has
worked in Scandanavia and in Canada with multi-national industrial technology
and machinery companies, with resource based industrial manufacturing
operations and with some of the world's leading consulting engineering
companies on international project development. He has published many
papers on international projects, served as an editorial advisor on the
Paper Trade Journal Magazine and obtained several industrial process and
equipment patents in the US, Canada and Scandinavia. Since the late 1980s
Dr. Kauppi has spent most of his time in the international arena involved
in planning, development and engineering of high capital resource-based
manufacturing projects in developing countries. He has experience of projects
in China, India and Russia.
Mandal,
Somdatta
Somdatta Mandal teaches English and American Literature at Vivekananda
College, Madhyamgram and at the post-graduate department of the University
of Calcutta. Graduating from the University of Calcutta, she obtained
her M.Phil and PhD degrees from Jadavpur University. A Fulbright scholar
at University of Virginia, Charlottesville (90-91), she has participated
in several national and international seminars and workshops. A Salzburg
Seminar Fellow 2001(American Studies Center), and a Charles Wallace Trust
Fellow at the British Council Seminar at Cambridge, 2001, she is currently
researching on the culture of the South Asian Diaspora and films. Her
publications have appeared in several national and internationally reputed
journals. Among her editorial ventures are F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Centennial
Tribute (2 vols) 1997; William Faulkner: A Centennial Tribute (1999);
The Diasporic Imagination: Asian American Writing (3 vols) 2000; At the
Turn of the Century: A Tribute to Ernest Hemingway (2001).
Chopra,
Sanjeev
Sanjeev Chopra (born 1961) studied Literature and History at Lyallpur
Khalsa College, Jalandhar and Jawahar Lal Nehru University New Delhi.
He wrote for Times of India and Economic Times before joining the Indian
Adminstrative Service in 1985. He held the Robert S McNmara fellowship
of the World Bank (1998-99) and the Hubert H Humphrey Fellowship at University
of Cornell(1999-00). He is currently on the faculty of the Lal Bahadur
Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussorie.
Kumar, Anil
Dr. K. Anil Kumar received his MSc in Demography from the University of
Kerala and PhD in Population Studies from the International Institute
of Population Sciences, Mumbai, India. Prior to his joining the Tata Institute
of Social Sciences (TISS). Dr. Anil Kumar was a Research Officer (Demographer)
at the Human Reproduction Research Centre (HRRC) of the Indian Council
of Medical Research at the Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
for four years. Currently, he is a Reader in the Unit for Child and Youth
Research at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
As part of the research team at the HRRC, he was involved in the Evaluation of the quality of services at the Primary Health Centre (PHC) level, Clinical trial of Norplant R², Intervention study to improve the quality of services at the PHC and in the project aimed at Improving the utilisation of IUDs and oral pills through training and counselling.
During his tenure at the TISS, apart from teaching at the post graduate level, he has associated with many socially relevant research projects on declining sex ratio; health situation of youth; health status of adolescents; assessment of rescue, relief and rehabilitation work related to the Maharashtra earthquake; sexuality of female sex workers and their clients; and sex ratio at birth: trends, differentials and implications. Also, he is the facilitator of the Working Group on Sexuality in India, formed at the TISS, which aims to enhance research and documentation in this area and to bring together researchers from various disciplines and concerns.
He has published articles on demography and youth health in various national and international journals.
Viswanathan,
C
Dr. C.Viswanathan is a Lecturer (Selection Grade) in Economics, Sree Narayana
College, Cherthala , Alappuzha, a college affiliated to Kerala University.
He did his Post-Graduation in Economics from Kerala University. Later
he did his M.Phil in Economics and Ph. D in Economics from the Kerala
University. He has written several research articles. He is a member of
Calicut University Question Setters Board, Agricultural University Examination
Board and Syllabus Revision Committee of the University of Kerala. At
present he is engaged in his Post-Doctoral research work on the problems
of fisheries management in Kerala.
Kim, Young
Sok
Dr. Young Sok Kim has a B.A. (Law) and M.A. (Law) from Seoul National
University, Seoul, Korea and an LL.M and J.S.D. (Doctor of the Science
of Law) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois,
U.S.A. He was the Deputy Director of Treaties Division I of the Korean
Foreign Ministry, Seoul, Korea and is currently Assistant Professor of
International Law in the Division of Law of the AJOU University, Suwon,
Korea. In 1998, he
participated in the United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries
on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court in Rome (the "Rome
Conference") as a member of the South Korean Delegation. Since the
Rome Conference, he has continued to participate in the sessions of the
UN Preparatory Commission for the Establishment of the International Criminal
Court as a member of the South Korean Delegation. He is actively
conducting research and writing articles related to the International
Criminal Court, both in Korea and internationally.
White,
Stephanie
Stephanie White trained as a sociologist and has worked as a researcher,
a teacher and a campaigner. She started her career by working for the
Tavistock Institute of Human Relations on economic and industrial research.
Then she moved out to Chiswick to raise a family and soon became involved
in community issues such as setting up play schemes and supporting children
at Chiswick Women's Aid. She worked as a teacher for thirteen years before
going back to university to study development. In recent years she has
become an active campaigner for development issues and works with refugees
in Brixton. Though still reluctant to think of herself as a Londoner,
she has lived in the same street in Chiswick for over thirty years.
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