International Development Experts
Michael Kugelman is senior program associate for South and Southeast Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center, where he is responsible for research, programming, and publications on South and Southeast Asia. His most recent work has focused on Pakistan's 2013 elections, India-Pakistan relations, U.S.-Pakistan relations, youth movements and social media in Pakistan, and security challenges in Ind...
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
A study of policy processes and the growth of important international relationships between the US and Ukraine, the development of new means to obtain a viable strategic partnership that takes account of international policy mechanisms that were created in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere in the post-Cold War era.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Ohio State University
Irfan Nooruddin is an Associate Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University. His current research centers on questions at the intersection of comparative and international political economy. Just as with institutions and economic development, the principal problem of violent domestic conflict is understanding how to design state institutions that will constrain...
Former Professor of International Security Studies
Director, Program in Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction, George C. Marshall Center, Germany
Ann Phillips worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) from September 2000 until September 2007, where she helped develop USAID’s policies and strategies on fragile states, stabilization and reconstruction, and promotion of good governance. Ann then went on to work for the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany, where she was...
Westminster
House of Lords, London
Lord Ramsbotham is a retired British Army officer, who later served as Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons. He was awarded a life peerage in 2005, and now sits on the cross benches of the House of Lords.Lord Ramsbotham is Chairman of the Koestler Awards scheme, and Vice-Chair of both the All Party Penal Affairs Group and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Learning & Skills in the C...
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Global Urban Studies, Michigan State University
and Faculty Associate, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
Born and raised in Mainland China, I moved to Tokyo in 1999 to study urban planning and came to the United States in 2001 to pursue a doctoral degree in sociology at the University of Chicago. My research interests include urbanization, governance, development, architecture and the built environment.My first book Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China (2011, T...
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
Susan K. Sell is a Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. She serves on the Board of IP Watch, which is a web-based reporting service covering intellectual property (www.ip-watch.org). She has served as a consultant for the Ford Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Center for Science and Tec...
Author; Former President of the Overseas Development Council (ODC)
John W. Sewell is a Senior Scholar at The Wilson Center. His current research analyzes how globalization has affected American national interests in the developing world and the changes in U.S. development policy that are needed to deal with the challenges of the 21st Century. He has recently published a Wilson Center policy paper entitled "The Realpolitik of Ending Poverty: An Action Plan fo...
Assistant Professor, International Economic Relations, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
University Professor of History, George Mason University
Martin J. Sherwin is University Professor of History at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Before moving to GMU in 2007 he was the Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History at Tufts University for 27 years. His recent book, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (with Kai Bird) won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for biography, the National...