INTERNATIONAL
ADVISORY BOARD BIOSKETCHES
Larry Diamond is Senior
Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Professor of Political Science and Sociology
at Stanford University, co-editor of the Journal of Democracy, and co-director
of the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for
Democracy. He has written extensively on the factors that facilitate and obstruct
democratic development, including in Class Ethnicity and Democracy in Nigeria:
The Failure of the First Republic (Macmillan, 1988) and Developing Democracy:
Towards Consolidation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).
Audrey Gadzekpo is Senior Lecturer, School of Communications Studies,
University of Ghana and currently Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University’s
African Studies Program. Having previously worked in the field of journalism for
15 years, Dr. Gadzekpo now researches media, gender and governance issues, including
in her most recent book on Violence Against Women and Children in Ghana.
She was co-interviewer for the first ever televised presidential debate in Ghana
and program coordinator in Ghana for the World Bank Media Capacity Enhancement
Program. Abdalla Hamdok is regional Director,
Africa and Middle East, for the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral
Assistance (IDEA). An economist and policy analyst, Dr. Hamdok has over twenty
years of experience addressing governance challenges in Africa. He was formerly
Chief Technical Advisor to the International Labor Organization in Southern Africa
(Harare, 1995-1997), Principal Economist in the Policy Division of the Central
Operation Department of the African Development Bank (Abidjan, 1997-2001), and
Senior Governance Expert, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (Addis
Ababa, 2001-3). Patrick Molutsi
is Executive Secretary to the Botswana Tertiary Education Council. A political
sociologist by training, he received his D. Phil from Oxford University, he was
formerly dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Botswana. He is
both a scholar and practitioner, having published Development Strategies in
Southern Africa (1985) and Democracy in Botswana (1989), as well
as having served as Director of Field Programs (2001-2) and Director of Political
Participation and Democracy Analysis (2002-3) for International IDEA in Stockholm,
Sweden. Benno Ndulu recently joined the
Africa Region of the World Bank, where he serves as an Advisor to the Vice President.
Previously he was Research Manager for Bank-wide research support in the office
of the World Bank’s Chief Economist and Senior Vice President. He is best
known for his involvement in setting up and developing the African Economic Research
Consortium (AERC), one of the most effective research and training networks in
Africa. Prof. Ndulu (Ph.D. Economics, Northwestern) has published widely on growth
adjustment, governance and trade and served on various international advisory
boards.
Mitchell Seligson
is Centennial Professor of Political
Science at Vanderbilt University and founder
and director of the Latin American Public
Opinion Project (LAPOP). A leading scholar
in democratization and mass politics, he
has received fellowships from the Kellogg
Institute, Fulbright program, and Rockefeller
Foundation and almost fifty research grants
from various research and development assistance
agencies. He has served regularly as a consultant
to USAID and the World Bank, but is perhaps
best known for his fourteen books, most
recently, The Legtimacy Puzzle in Latin
America: Political Support and Democracy
in Eight Nations (Cambridge University
Press, 2009) and Development and Underdevelopment:
The Political Economy of Global Inequality
(4th edition, 2008)..
| |
