RAD Steering Committee

In spring 2007, the RAD Steering Committee, the governing body of the network, underwent a partial renewal, following a nominations process among membership and final selection during the RAD Annual Meeting on May 16, 2007, in Bled, Slovenia.

RAD Steering Committee 2007:

CHAIR: Diane Stone (Ms.), Professor, Politics and International Studies, Warwick University, United Kingdom; Marie Curie Chair, Central European University, Hungary

Michael Adams (Mr.), President, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA

Ahmet Faruk Aysan (Mr.), Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Bogazici University, Turkey

Flora Kessy (Ms.), Senior Social Scientist, Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre, Tanzania

Ralf Juan Leiteritz (Mr.), Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia

Heba Nassar (Ms.), Professor of Economics, Vice Dean for Community Development, Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS), Cairo University; and Vice Chair for all academic centers at (FEPS), Egypt

M. Ramesh (Mr.), Associate Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Joyashree Roy (Ms.), Professor and Head of the Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, India

Javier Santiso (Mr.), Deputy Director and Chief Development Economist, OECD Development Center

Kristian Weise (Mr.), Policy Research Officer, Economic and Social Policy Departments, International Trade Union Confederation

RAD Steering Committee 2006:

Odd-Helge Fjeldstad (Chair) – Senior Research Fellow,   Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen

Annie Chikwanha - Program Manager,   Afrobarometer,  Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), Cape Town

Refik Erzan – Professor of Economics, Director of the   Center for Economics and Econometrics, Bogazici University, Istanbul

Philippe Fargues – Scientific Director of the Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on Internaitonal Migration (CARIM), Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the Euopean University Institute, Florence

James Howard – Director of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), Brussels

Ewa Latoszek – Professor of Economics and Vice Dean of the   Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw

Heba Nassar – Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Economic and Financial Research and Studies (CEFRS), Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Cairo

Joyashree Roy (Co-Chair) - Professor of Economics,  Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Javier Santiso – Chief Development Economist and Deputy Director,   OECD Development Cente, Paris

Diane Stone – Marie Curie Chair and Head of Master in Public Policy Program,   Center for Policy Studies, Central European University, Budapest

From right to left: Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Ewa Latoszek, Javier Santiso, Anna Kuznicka (RAD Secretariat, TheWorld Bank), Joyashree Roy, Philippe Fargues, Ian Goldin (Vice President, External Affairs, Communications and United Nations Affairs, The World Bank), Mohsen Ben Chibani, Diane Stone, Jean-Christophe Bas (Development Policy Dialogue Manager, The World Bank), Refik Erzan, Heba Nassar.