Africa Experts
Associate Professor and Director of the African Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies
Throughout my professional career, I have been interested in the relationship between economic and political development. This includes a focus on the dominant challenges facing ex-colonial and former socialist countries today:state building and state capacity;economic strategy and policy choice;the political context for economic transformation; andcomparative processes of democratic development.I...
Visiting Professor, African Studies Program, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Former Special Advisor to the Managing Director, Operations, The World Bank
As a Foreign Service Officer from 1970-80, McDonald served as Political Officer in the U.S. Embassies in Uganda and South Africa and as the Desk Officer for Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Sao Tome and Principe. He also was support staff for negotiated settlements in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and Namibia in the late-1970s and did conflict resolution work in Northern Ireland and Burundi.From...
Former Senior US Diplomat and Specialist in South Asia and West Africa. Ambassador to Pakistan (1998-2001); Ambassador to Bangladesh (1990-93); Chief of Mission in Liberia (1995-98); Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Finance and Development (1985-90)
William B. Milam is a Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. Although his research and publications while at the Wilson Center have concentrated on South Asia, his current research focuses on Liberia and the efforts of this former failed state to balance political and economic reconstruction with justice and reconciliation.Before joining the Wilson Center, he was a...
Former President of Botswana; Leads "Champions for an HIV-free Generation in Africa" and Chair of "Council of Elders" in Africa.
Programs Manager, University of Nairobi Center for Human Rights and Peace, Kenya
Associate Professor of Education, George Mason University
The journey that made me the educator, teacher educator, and scholar that I am today has been long, eventful, and marked by ambitious dreams to become what most believed I could not become, and memories of arduously marching to reach goals that have always been as ambitious as the dreams themselves. I was born, raised, and educated in Burundi, Africa where education was a scarce commodity. My 10...
Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-Director, The Center for Ethnicities, Communities and Social Policy, Bryn Mawr College
My interests in the role of women, entrepreneurship, and African development emerge from my studies in Caribbean development and the social history of the family as an undergraduate at Harvard-Radcliffe. After my junior year, I went to Guyana, my father's birthplace, to study the influence of work on family life in the sugar and bauxite industries. This qualitative research project included in...
Doctoral Candidate, African History, Indiana University
Donna is a Ph.D candidate in African History at Indiana University. She has her M.A. in History from Indiana University. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships and was a Fulbright Fellow from 2000 to 2001. Currently she is working on her dissertation, which focuses on women pharmacists in post-independence Senegal. Exploring an interest in Muslim women's entrepreneurship...