ABCDE 2006 Advisory Committee Members

Hiroto Arakawa
Director General
Development Assistance Strategy Dept., Japan Bank for International Cooperation
(JBIC)

Mohamed Ariff
Professor Emeritus and Executive Director
Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER)

Suman Bery
Nacional Council of Applied Economic Research
India

Robin Burgess
Co-Director of the Programme for the Study of Economic Organisation and Public Policy
London School of Economics and Political Sciences
United Kingdom

Shantayanan Devarajan
Chief Economist for South Asia region
The World Bank

Rob de Vos
Deputy Director General for International Cooperation
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Netherlands

David Dollar
Country Director for China and Mongolia
The World Bank

Antonio Estache
Senior Advisor
Infrastructure Vice Presidency
The World Bank

Odd-Helge Fjeldstad
Chairman
Researchers Alliance for Development (RAD)

Ahmed Galal
Director
Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES)
Egypt

Duncan Green
Head of Research
OXFAM
United Kingdom

Serguei Guriev
Human Capital Foundation Associate Professor and Rector
New Economic School, Moscow
Russia

Gregory Ingram
President and CEO
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
USA

Takatoshi Ito
Professor, Graduate School of Economics
University of Tokyo
Japan

Louka Katseli
Director
OECD Development Centre

Homi Kharas
Chief Economist for East Asia and Pacific Region
The World Bank

Akifumi Kuchiki
Executive Vice President
Japan  External Trade Organization (JETRO)
Japan

Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Assistant-Secretary-General for Economic Development
UN DESA

William Lyakurva
Executive Director
African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
Kenya

Masashi Mizukami
Director General
Planning and Coordination Dept.
Japan International Cooperation Agency
(JICA)

Anwar Nasution
Professor and Chairman
Badan Pemerika Keuangan (BPK) (Supreme Audit Board)
Indonesia

Juan Pablo NicoliniRector
Universitad Torquato di Tella
Argentina

Peter Nijkamp
Professor
Free University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Mr. Shiro Sadoshima
Deputy Director General
Economic Cooperation Bureau
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

Chia Siow Yue
Professor and Former Director, Institute of South East Asian Studies (ISEAS)
Singapore

Chalongphob Sussangkarn
President
Thailand Development Research Institute

Tadashi Yamamoto
President
Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE)

Tan Khee Giap
Founding Member, Asia Research Center
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Singapore
 

Emeritus Professor Dr. Mohamed Ariff, a specialist in International Economics is currently the Executive Director of the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER).  Previously he held the Chair of Analytical Economics at the University of Malaya where he had also served as the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administration.  He was conferred emeritus professorship by the University of Malaya in August 2004.Prof. Ariff obtained his B.A. First Class Honours and M.Ec. from the Universiti of Malaya.  He completed his Ph.D. programme at the University of Lancaster, England, in 1970, as Commonwealth Scholar.  He had a brief stint in the private sector as the Chief Economist at the United Asian Bank in 1976. He has authored, co-authored and edited many books and monographs, in addition to publishing numerous articles in academic journals and mass media.  His book “The Malaysian Economy:  Pacific Connections - published by Oxford University Press - won the prestigious Tun Razak Award in 1993. Most of his works deal with international trade, foreign direct investments and regional economic integration.  In addition, he has also made some pioneering contributions to the theoretical and empirical literature in the field of Islamic Economics. Prof. Ariff is currently Vice President of East Asian Economic Association and Vice President of the International Association for Islamic Economics.Prof. Ariff has participated in numerous international conferences around the globe.  He has served as Consultant to many international organizations, including the World Bank (Washington DC), UNIDO (Vienna), OECD Development Centre (Paris), Commonwealth Secretariat (London), UNCTAD (Geneva), UNCRD (Nagoya), ESCAP (Bangkok) and Islamic Development Bank (Jeddah).
Prof. Ariff was attached to the Institute of Developing Economies in Tokyo (April-November 1974), the Australian National University in Canberra (November 1983-July 1984) and the East-West Center in Honolulu (October 1989-July 1990) as Visiting Research Fellow. Prof. Ariff is also professionally affiliated to several institutions including the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore and International Center for Studies on East Asian Development (ICSEAD) in Kitakyushu, Japan.  Other hats he wears include such editorial positions as Correspondent Editor of Asia-Pacific Economic Literature (Canberra), and Advisor to Asia Pacific Business Review (Singapore), RISdigest (New Delhi) and Asian Development Review (Manila) and Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Review (Bangkok).

Shantayanan Devarajan is a Bank expert on human development, public expenditures and tax policy. Since joining the Bank in 1991, he has conducted research on various aspects of public expenditures in developing countries, including the links with growth, project appraisal and foreign aid. He has also worked in the areas of trade, tax, real exchange rate and labor market policies in developing countries, natural resources and the environment, and general-equilibrium modeling.  He was the Director of the World Development Report 2004, Making Services Work for Poor People.
Before joining the Bank, Mr. Devarajan was on the faculty of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In addition to his World Bank position, Mr. Devarajan serves as a resource person to the African Economic Research Consortium, and is the Editor of the World Bank Research Observer [http://www.worldbank.org/research/journals/wbroedit.htm].
The author or co-author of over 100 publications, Mr. Devarajan’s research covers public economics, trade policy, natural resources and the environment, and general-equilibrium modeling of developing countries.  Born in Sri Lanka, Mr. Devarajan received his A. B. in mathematics from Princeton University and his Ph. D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Mr. Suman K. Bery is the current Director General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi.  He assumed this position on January 1, 2001.
Prior to this assignment, he was working at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., USA as the Lead Economist for Brazil.  Other experience on Latin America included work on Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador and Peru.  Between 1992 and 1994 Mr. Bery held the position of Special Consultant to the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, based in Mumbai.  While at the RBI, he was actively involved in developing proposals for reform of the government debt markets, linkages between general financial sector deregulation and the development of the bond market, as well as issues of market structure, drawing upon the experience of other developing countries.
After schooling in India and the U.K., Mr. Bery graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford with a first class degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE).  His graduate work was at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, from which he holds the degree of Master of Public and International Affairs.  His Ph.D. dissertation research (also at Princeton) was on the monetary policy instruments of the Reserve Bank of India.
Mr. Bery’s publications include papers on Indian Financial Sector reforms; Reforms of Public Sector Banks; Banking Crises in Latin America and the Political Economy of Economic reforms in developing countries.  Mr. Bery serves on the Central Board of the State Bank of India, India’s largest bank. He has been a member of several government committees and task forces.

Mr. David Dollar, a US national, becomes the World Bank’s new Country Director for China and Mongolia in the East Asia and Pacific Region.  He will be based in Beijing, China starting on July 1, 2004. 
Prior to his present assignment, Mr. Dollar worked as Director for the development research department of the World Bank,  overseeing the Bank’s research on the investment climate and growth.  He heads up the Bank-wide effort to systematically collect data from firms and to analyze the impact of the investment climate on investment, job creation, and growth.  He co-authored the recent World Bank reports Globalization, Growth, and Poverty and Improving City Competitiveness through the Investment Climate: Ranking 23 Chinese Cities.  His earlier work focused on aid and growth, and the determinants of the success and failure of reform programs supported by structural adjustment lending.  He has been a key World Bank spokesperson on investment climate, globalization, and the effectiveness of aid.
Mr. Dollar joined the Bank in 1990 as an Economist in the Asia Region.  He worked as the country economist for Vietnam through 1995.  He advised the economic leaders of that country during a period of stabilization and transition to a market economy, and prepared the first World Bank country assistance strategies to support that transition.    
 Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Dollar was on the faculty of the Department of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles; he has published widely in the areas of productivity growth, technology transfer, and development in East Asia.  As a professor, he spent a semester teaching at the Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. He has a PhD in economics from New York University and a B.A. in Chinese history and language from Dartmouth College. 
In this new position, Mr. Dollar’s key priorities will be to further strengthen the Bank’s growing partnership with China on analytical and operational efforts directed at the country’s integration into the global economy while addressing remaining social and economic disparities; and to lay the groundwork for a new stage in the Bank’s relationship with Mongolia as set forth in the recent Country Assistance Strategy.    

Odd-Helge Fjeldstad is an economist and Senior Research Fellow at Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Norway. He has extensive experience from research and policy analysis in Eastern and Southern African countries, particularly Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, and the Middle East (Palestine). Thematically his work focuses on public finance and financial management, tax compliance, fiscal decentralization, and corruption. Among his recent publications are: ‘Corruption in tax administration. Lessons from institutional reforms in Uganda’ (in Susan Rose-Ackerman (ed.) Handbook of Economic Corruption,
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006); ‘What’s trust got to do with it? Non-payment of service charges in local authorities in South Africa’ (The Journal of Modern African Studies, 2004); and ‘Fiscal corruption: A vice or a virtue?’ (World Development, 2003, with B. Tungodden). Apart from his own research he has undertaken commissioned research for the Government of Tanzania on tax reforms; for the UK Department for International Development (DFID) on local government taxation and fiscal corruption; for the World Bank on revenue administration; and for the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) on foreign investments, taxation and anti-corruption strategies. His experience also covers teaching and training in economic policy analysis, fiscal reforms and the economics of corruption. He is charing the steering committee of the Researchers Alliance for Development (RAD).

Ahmed Galal is currently Executive Director and Director of Research of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES), an independent think-tank dedicated to economic development in Egypt. He held the same position in 1996 and 1997, while on leave from the World Bank. He helped shape the character of ECES as a credible and objective voice for change in Egypt.
Mr. Galal has been on the staff of the World Bank since 1984. During this long tenure, he served as industrial economist in the Europe, Middle East and North Africa region, as senior then principal economist at the research arm of the Bank, and as economic advisor at the private sector development department. His work combined the conduct of research on different issues as well as the formulation of policy advice to several countries in Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and Europe.
Mr. Galal has published extensively. He co-authored/co-edited seven books on a wide range of issues, including privatization, regulation of monopolies, trade, and monetary policy. His better known books include: Welfare Consequences of Selling Public Enterprises, Bureaucrats in Business, and Regional Partners in Global Markets. His other publications include a large number of journal articles and chapters in books. Concerned with public discourse, Mr. Galal also writes occasionally in newspapers and magazines, both in English and Arabic.
Ahmed Galal is an Egyptian national. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Boston University.  His current interest is in the areas of unemployment, regional integration and the informal sector.

Duncan Green has been Head of Research at Oxfam GB since November 2004, . He is author of Blood on the Floor: How the rich countries have squeezed development out of the WTO Doha negotiations (Oxfam, December 2005), Conspiracy of silence: old and new directions on commodities (Oxfam, July 2005), and (with Kate Raworth) Kicking down the door: How upcoming WTO talks threaten farmers in poor countries (Oxfam, April 2005).
In 2004, he was a Senior Policy Adviser on Trade and Development at the Department for International Development (DFID), where his work covered agricultural and non-agricultural trade in goods. He went to DFID on secondment from CAFOD, the Catholic aid agency for England and Wales, where he was a Policy Analyst on trade and globalization (www.cafod.org.uk/policy). His papers at CAFOD include The Northern WTO Agenda on Investment: Do as we say, not as we did (with Ha Joon Chang, South Centre/CAFOD, June 2003); Dumping on the Poor: The Common Agricultural Policy, the WTO and International Development (with Matthew Griffith, CAFOD, September 2002) and Capital Punishment: Making International Finance Work for the World's Poor (CAFOD, September 2001). Prior to going to DFID, he was also Head of Research and Engagement at the Just Pensions project on socially responsible investment (various papers on www.justpensions.org), and an advisory board member of the Globalisation and Poverty Programme (www.gapresearch.org) and a former board member of the Ethical Trading Initiative. He is the author of several books on Latin America including Silent Revolution: The Rise and Crisis of Market Economics in Latin America (2003) and Faces of Latin America (1997). He can be contacted on dgreen@oxfam.org.uk.

Sergei Guriev is a Human Capital Foundation Associate Professor of Corporate Finance and the Rector of the New Economic School in Moscow. He is also a CEO of the Center for Economic and Financial Research at the New Economic School. He received his Dr. Sc. (habilitation degree) in Economics (2002) and PhD in Applied Math from the Russian Academy of Science (1994), and M.Sc. Summa Cum Laude from Moscow Institute of Physics in Technology (1993).  In 1997-98, Mr. Guriev visited the Department of Economics at M.I.T. for a one-year post-doctoral placement, and in 2003-2004, the Department of Economics at Princeton University as a Visiting Assistant Professor. Since 1999, Mr. Guriev has been a Research Affiliate at Centre for Economic Policy Research, London.  His research interests include contract theory, corporate governance, and labour mobility. In 2005, he was selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He teaches graduate courses in microeconomic theory, contract theory, and development economics. Dr. Guriev has published in international refereed journals including American Economic Review and Journal of Economic Perspectives. Since 2003, Sergei Guriev has also been a columnist for the leading Russian business daily Vedomosti and has also contributed occasional columns to the New York Times, Moscow Times, and Expert. 
 

Gregory K. Ingram is President and CEO of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  He was formerly Director-General, Operations Evaluation at the World Bank, where he previously held positions in urban development and research and was Staff Director for the World Development Report 1994, Infrastructure for Development.  Prior to joining the World Bank, Mr. Ingram was Associate Professor of Economics at Harvard University.  He has published in the areas of infrastructure, urban economics, housing markets, transportation, evaluation, environment, and development.  Mr. Ingram holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University; a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University; and a B.S. in civil engineering from Swarthmore College.

Takatoshi Ito, Professor at Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, has taught both in the United States and Japan in the past: Assistant and tenured Associate Professor at University of Minnesota (1979-88), Associate and full Professor at Hitotsubashi University (1988-1999, and 2001-2002), and Visiting professor at Harvard University (1992-94). In an unusual move for Japanese academics, Ito was appointed in the official sector, as Senior Advisor in the Research Department, IMF (1994-97) and as Deputy Vice Minister for International Affaires at Ministry of Finance, Japan (1999-2001).
 He is an author of many books including The Japanese Economy (MIT Press, 1992), The Political Economy of the Japanese Monetary Policy and Financial Policy and Central Banking in Japan (both with T. Cargill and M. Hutchison, MIT Press, published respectively 1997 and 2000), and many academic articles on international finance and the Japanese economy (in such journals as American Economic Review, and Econometrica). He is serving as President of the Japanese Economic Association (2004).

Louka T. Katseli is head of the OECD Development Centre in Paris since July 2003.  Until then she was Professor of Economics at the University of Athens.
Prof. Katseli has received two Masters Degrees – M.A in Public Policy (1974) and M.A. in Economic Science (1975) -as well as a PhD in Economics (1978) from Princeton University. As Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics at Yale University U.S.A. (1977-1985) she received, in 1980, the best-new-professor award and a two-year fellowship from the German Marshall Fund (1984).
 She has published over 40 articles in international academic journals and/or books in the areas of international migration, foreign direct investment and macroeconomic policy.
 Professor Katseli has served in the past as Director General of the Center of Planning and Economic Research (KEPE) in Athens (1982-86), as a Special Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister of Greece (1993-1996), and as a Special Advisor to the Greek Minister of Education (1996-1998). She has also served as Member in a number of prominent international or European Committees such as the European Commission’s Economic and Monetary Policy Committees, the “Comité des Sages” on the reform of the European Social Charter (1995-1997), and the Committee of Development Policy (CDP) of the United Nations.

Jomo Kwame Sundaram (Jomo K. S.) is Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations. He was Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and Founder Chair of IDEAs, or International Development Economics Associates www.ideaswebsite.org, and Professor in the Applied Economics Department, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, until late 2004.
Born in Penang, Malaysia, in 1952, Jomo studied at the Penang Free School (PFS, 1964-6), Royal Military College (RMC, 1967-70), Yale (1970-3) and Harvard (1973-7). He has taught at Science University of Malaysia (USM, 1974), Harvard (1974-5), Yale (1977), National University of Malaysia (UKM, 1977-82), University of Malaya (since 1982), and Cornell (1993). He has also been a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University (1987-8; 1991-2).
He has authored over 35 monographs, edited over 50 books and translated 11 volumes besides writing many academic papers and articles for the media. He is on the editorial boards of several learned journals. Some of his recent book publications include Malaysia’s Political Economy, Tigers in Trouble, Rents, Rent-Seeking and Economic Development, Malaysian Eclipse: Economic Crisis and Recovery, Globalization Versus Development: Heterodox Perspectives, Southeast Asia’s Industrialization, Ugly Malaysians? South-South Investments Abused, Southeast Asian Paper Tigers, Manufacturing Competitiveness, Ethnic Business? Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia, Deforesting Malaysia, M Way: Mahathir’s Economic Policy Legacy, and After The Storm: Crisis, Recovery and Sustaining Development in East Asia.

Mr. Homi Kharas is the Chief Economist of the East Asia and Pacific Region (EAP) of the World Bank and Director of the region's Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Department (PREM). In this capacity, he is responsible for the World Bank's policy advice, and lending in support of that advice, to countries in the region on matters of poverty reduction strategies, trade and competitiveness, public sector debt and fiscal policy, public expenditure management, governance, anti-corruption, financial and private sector development.

William Lyakurwa (PH.D Cornell University 1978) is the Executive Director of the African Economic Research Consortium. He joined AERC from the International Trade Centre based in Geneva, Switzerland in 1993, where he held the post of Senior Trade Promotion Advisor. Mr. Lyakurwa has since 1994, held the positions of Director of Training and Deputy Executive Director until his appointment to the position of Executive Director in March 2003.
Mr. Lyakurwa has published extensively in local and international journals as well as contributed chapters in books, research and discussion papers.  He has also been enlisted as an advisor and consultant to governments; regional bodies; multilateral institutions; international and non-governmental organizations.  Mr. Lyakurwa has a wealth of experience in research; graduate training; ‘hands-on’ human resource management; and a keen sense of appreciation of the challenges of implementing the Consortium’s programmes in an evolving Continent.


Juan Pablo Nicolini was born in Buenos Aires in 1962, and grew up in the city of Tucumán.  He graduated from Universidad de Tucumán with an undergraduate Economics degree in 1985.  In 1991, he completed his graduate studies at the University of Chicago, where he earned a Masters and Ph.D. in Economics.  His doctoral dissertation was directed by Robert E. Lucas Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1995. Dr. Nicolini worked at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and in the Economics Department of the Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.  He began teaching at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in 1992, and became a full-time professor in 1994. Between 1994 and 1999, he was Director of the Economics Department at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella positioning it as one of the discipline’s best research centers in Latin America. Since 2001 he is of the University. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago (USA), the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (México), the Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), and the Universidad Carlos III (Madrid). He is a member of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, the Asociación Argentina de Economía Política, the American Economic Association, and the Econometric Society.
Dr. Nicolini's academic research concentrates on macroeconomic and monetary policy, as well as social policy and income distribution.  Dr. Nicolini´s scientific contributions have received international recognition.  For example, his work on hyperinflation with Albert Marcet and his work on social security policy with Hugo Hopenhayn are included in textbooks used by doctoral programs in the best universities throughout the world.  Dr. Nicolini has been a consultant on macroeconomics and social policy questions for the Interamerican Development Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, among others.  He is the associate editor of The World Bank Economic Review. His work has been published in such prestigious journals as the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and in books published by MIT Press and the Brookings Institution.

Peter Nijkamp is professor in regional and urban economics and in economic geography at the Free University, Amsterdam. His main research interests cover plan evaluati¬on, multicriteria analysis, regional and urban planning, transport systems analysis, mathe¬matical modelling, technological innovation, and resource management. In the past years he has focused his research in particular on quantitative methods for policy analysis, as well as on behavioural analysis of economic agents. He has a broad expertise in the area of public policy, services planning, infrastructu¬re manage¬ment and environmental protection. In all these fields he has publis¬hed many books and numerous articles. He is member of editorial boards of more than 20 journals. He has been visiting professor in many universities all over the world. He is past president of the European Regional Science Association and of the Regional Science Association International. He is also fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, and is immediate past vice-president of this organisation. Since June 2002 he serves as president of the governing board of the Netherlands Research Council (NWO).

Upon graduated with a PhD from University of East Anglia, England, UK in 1987, Dr. Tan Khee Giap joined the banking sector as a treasury manager for three years, there after he taught at the National University of Singapore. Dr. Tan currently heads the Central Banking Policies Research Unit and the ASEAN Economies Monitoring Unit at NTU, Singapore. He has consulted extensively with the various government ministries, statutory boards and government linked companies of Singapore government including Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Trade & Industry, Ministry of Manpower, Housing & Development Board, Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, Singapore Tourism Board, Trade Development Board, Maritime Port Authority and StarHub Pte Ltd on policies concerning financial, fiscal, trade, tourism, public housing, labor, telecommunication, airport and seaport activities. He has also served as a consultant to international agencies such as the Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Bank Institute, United Nations Industrial Development Group, World Gold Council, ASEAN Secretariat, Central Policy Unit, Hong Kong, international financial institutions and multinational corporations. Dr Tan’s has published in international refereed journals in the area of central banking policies, capital flows, economic forecasting, financial development and macroeconomic competitiveness. His current research interests include econometric forecasting, regional financial reforms, and competitiveness analysis on 31 provinces in China, 35 states in India and Asean-10 economies. He is currently an adjunct senior fellow of the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) and Institute of South East Asia Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, the coordinator for PECC Singapore Structural Specialists Meeting, PECC Finance Forum and Deputy President of the Singapore Economic Society, 2004. He served in the 2002 Economic Review Committee (ERC) and as Chairman of the Task Force on Portable Medical Benefits (PMB). He has also served as the Deputy Chairman of the IPS Forum for Economic Restructuring (IFER).   

Tadashi Yamamoto is president of the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE), which he founded in 1970. After studying at Sophia University, in Japan, he received a B.A. from St. Norbert College and an M.B.A. from Marquette University.   He has promoted policy-oriented intellectual dialogue and policy research through the Global ThinkNet Program, including the Shimoda Conference series, Trilateral Commission, Japan-U.K. 21st Century Group, Japan-German Forum, and the Japan-Korea Forum. He has also promoted the development of Japan's civil society and its involvement in international cooperation through the CivilNet Program which includes the Friends of the Global Fund, Japan, and diverse NGO exchange programs. Through Parliamentary Exchange Programs such as the U.S.-Japan Parliamentary Exchange, Congressional Exchange, and the Japan-Australia Political Exchange he has promoted dialogue and study among politicians. He has been involved in several government commissions including the Prime Minister's Commission. His honors include the Commander’s cross of the Order of Merit from the German government, the Honorable Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and Honorary Officer (AO) from the Australian government. He is the author of many articles on civil society.