- Ad Melkert
Adrianus Petrus Wilhelmus (Ad) Melkert is a Dutch politician, who served as chair of the parliamentary party and Minister of Social Affairs and Employment for the social-democratic PvdA. He led the PvdA to a historic low in the contentious 2002 general elections, which were won by the CDA and the List Pim Fortuyn party. He currently serves as Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme.
- Mahbub Ul Haq
Mahbub ul Haq (February 22, 1934 - July 16, 1998) was an influential and world renowned Pakistani economist. One of the founders of human development theory (and a personal friend of Amartya Sen, whom he met while studying at Cambridge), together with Amartya Sen he created the Human Development Index, …
- Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is a development economist who has gained recognition for her work with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and for her writing in publications including the "Journal of Human Development", which she founded. Since 1973, when Fukuda-Parr worked in the Young Professionals Programme at World Bank, she has played a large role on the world stage of globalization, poverty, and economics, with interests in technology, human rights, gender, …
- Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (born February 16, 1932) is the current President of Sierra Leone (1996-1997, 1998-present). He worked for the United Nations Development Programme, and returned to Sierra Leone in 1992. He was elected president in 1996. Most of his time in office was influenced by a civil war with the Revolutionary United Front, led by Foday Sankoh, …
- Michel Chossudovsky
Michel Chossudovsky is a Canadian economist. He is a professor of economics at the University of Ottawa. Chossudovsky has taught as visiting professor at academic institutions in Western Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia, has acted as economic adviser to governments of developing countries and has worked as a consultant for international organizations including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the African Development Bank, …
- Baaba Maal
Baaba Maal is a Senegalese singer and guitarist born in Podor, on the Senegal River. He is perhaps the best-known musician to come from Senegal and is a superstar in his home country. In addition to acoustic guitar, he also plays percussion. He has released several albums, both for independent and major labels. In July 2003, he was made a UNDP Youth Emissary.
- Matthew Lee
Matthew Lee is a public interest lawyer, author, and founder of two non-profit organizations, Inner City Press and Fair Finance Watch. Both are known for their investigations of the banking industry's treatment of low-income communities of color around the world. Lee produces weekly reports on, and advocates concerning, such global banks as HSBC, Citigroup, Royal Bank of Scotland, Mizuho and others.
- Chris Baker
Chris Baker is a Thailand-based writer. He has written many selections such as: "A History of Thailand", "Thaksin: The Business of Politics in Thailand", "Thailand's Boom and Bust", and "Thailand's Crisis", all with Pasuk Phongpaichit.
- Eduardo Stein
Dr. Eduardo Stein Barillas is a Guatemalan politician. He is the current Vice President of Guatemala, serving a concurrent four-year mandate with that of President Óscar Berger, who took office on 14 January 2004. Prior to his election, he had held a number of positions with the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Development Programme, and the Organization of American States.
- Mukesh Kapila
Dr. Mukesh Kapila is the Special Representative for HIV and AIDS of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). He was formerly a Director in the Department of Health Action in Crises of the World Health Organization. An employee of the government of the United Kingdom, he was on secondment to the United Nations. In 2003-2004 Kapila was the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, …
- Kori Udovički
Kori Udovički is Serbian politician. She was born in 1961 in La Paz, Bolivia. She is an Assistant Secretary-General of United Nations, Assistant Administrator of UNDP and Director of the Regional Bureau of UNDP for Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States (RBEC). Previously she was the President of the Center for Advanced Economic Studies (CEVES), a Belgrade NGO that works for the advancement of economic research and education in South East Europe.
- James Speth
James Gustave (Gus) Speth (born March 4 1942) is an American environmental lawyer and activist. He was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina in 1942. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1964, attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and graduated from Yale Law School, where he was a member of the "Yale Law Journal", in 1969, and was a co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
- Deniz Kandiyoti
Deniz Kandiyoti is an author and an academic of research in the fields of gender relations and developmental politics in the Middle East, specifically Turkey. She holds a PhD from London School of Economics and Political Science. Her work on gender and Islam, especially in post-colonial and rural development areas, has been influential throughout the entire field. She has pioneered new research into understanding the implications of Islam and state policy on women, …
- William Henry Draper III
William Henry Draper III is a prominent American businessman, son of William Henry Draper Jr.. Father of Timothy C. Draper. Attended Yale with George H. W. Bush, graduated in 1950, the year after George H. W. Bush, and was a member of Skull and Bones. Co-founded the venture capital firm Draper & Johnson Investment Company in 1962. One of the founding investors in George W. Bush's Arbusto Energy in 1977.
- Ousmane Sy
Ousmane Sy is a Malian politician, born on May 25, 1949 in Bandiagara, Mali. Ousmane Sy received his higher education in France. He holds a Doctorate in Economic and Social Development (University of Paris I) and two advanced Diplomas with specializations in agricultural development (Paris I) and agricultural economics (ISTOM, Le Havre).
- Kirit Parikh
Dr. Kirit S. Parikh is Emeritus Professor (on retirement as Director) and Founder Director of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India. He has also served as Senior Economic Advisor to United Nations Development Programme from October 1997 to September 1998. He has been a member of the Economic Advisory Council(EAC) of the Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and had been a member of EAC of Prime Ministers Rajiv Gandhi, V.P.Singh, …
- Nader Khalili
Nader Khalili is an Iranian-born architect, writer, and humanitarian who received his philosophy and architectural education in Iran, Turkey and the United States. In 1970 he was licensed by the State of California and has practiced architecture in the U.S. and around the world. Khalili is known for his innovation into the Geltaftan Earth-and-Fire System known as Ceramic Houses and the Earthbag Construction technique called Super Adobe.
- Aminata Traoré
Aminata Dramane Traoré is a Malian author, politician, and political activist. She served as the Minister of Culture and Tourism of Mali from 1997 to 2000 and is a former coordinator of the United Nations Development Programme. She is the current Coordinator of "Forum pour l'autre Mali" and Associate Coordinator of the International Network for Cultural Diversity and was elected to the board of the International Press Service in July 2005.
- Maxwell Mkwezalamba
Maxwell Mkwezalamba is a Malawian politician and economist born on December 22, 1959. He is Commissioner for Economic Affairs for the African Union Commission, a position he has held since May 2004. Mkwezalamba graduated in Economics from Chancellor College, University of Malawi with an honours degree in Economics, where he subsequently lectured and headed the Economics Department. He obtained a Master's degree in Economics in 1984 from the University of Manchester, UK, …
- Kimmo Kiljunen
Hon. Dr. Kimmo Kiljunen (born 1951), PhD Sussex, is a member of the Finnish parliament. He is vice chair of the parliament's Grand Committee and member of the Committee for Foreign Affairs. He is also the chairman of the city council of Vantaa. Kiljunen has published several books on Finnish politics, international relations and development.
- Andrew Zimbalist
Andrew Zimbalist is an American economist. He is best known as one of the most prominent sports economists in the world. Zimbalist is currently the Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics at Smith College. He received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 1969 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1972 and 1974 respectively. He has been in the Economics Department at Smith College since 1974.
- Christopher Fitzherbert Hackett
Dr. Christopher Fitzherbert Hackett is the Permanent Representative for Barbados to the United Nations. He presented his credentials to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 12 March 2004. During the 58th United Nations General Assembly, Hackett was a Senior Adviser to the President, Julian R. Hunte. Hackett was educated at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada (masters), …
- Polly Draper
Polly Carey Draper (born June 15, 1955 or 1956) (50 or 51) is an American actress. Draper was born in Gary, Indiana to Phyllis, a Peace Corps administrator, and William Henry Draper III, a head of the United Nations Development Programme. Her brother is venture capitalist Timothy Cook Draper and her sister Rebecca Draper. She received her B.A. in 1977 from Yale University and M.F.A. in 1980 from the Yale School of Drama.
- Joe Oloka-Onyango
Joe Oloka-Onyango (born September 16 1960 in North London, England) is a Ugandan lawyer and academic. He is Associate Professor and director of the Makerere University Human Rights and Peace Centre (HURIPEC) in Kampala, Uganda, as well as the former Dean of Makerere Law School. He studied law at Makerere University and the Kampala Law Development Center, before earning a Master of Laws and Doctor of Juridical Science degrees at Harvard Law School.
- Abdullah Almalki
Abdullah Almalki (born 1971) is a Syrian-Canadian engineer who was imprisoned for two years in a Syrian jail. As of 2005, Almalki lives in Canada with his wife and five children. Almalki was born in Syria and emigrated to Canada as a boy. He worked in the Ottawa area as an engineer, and had an acquaintance with Maher Arar. In the 1990s, Almalki travelled to Afghanistan and worked with a Canadian NGO, Human Concern International, …
- Dick Heyward
Dick Heyward was a deputy executive director of UNICEF between 1949 and 1981. During that time, he was responsible for developing many of UNICEF's policies for children and served under three executive directors. E.J.R. Dick Heyward was born in Tasmania in 1914. He grew up on his family's apple farm and studied at the London School of Economics. He served as first secretary to the Australian Mission between 1947 and 1949.
- Alex Singleton
Alex Singleton (born 25 October 1979) is President of the Globalisation Institute, a think tank founded in London that developes policies on trade, competitiveness and development. He studied at Dulwich College and the University of St Andrews, where he founded the Liberty Club, a libertarian student society. Mark Malloch Brown, then the head of the UN Development Programme (and subsequently UN Deputy Secretary-General), …
- Danny Lebern Glover
Actor, producer and humanitarian Danny Glover has been a commanding presence on screen, stage and television for more than 25 years. As an actor, his film credits range from the blockbuster Lethal Weapon franchise to smaller independent features, some of which Glover also produced.
- James Sunday
Egypt rocks my world. If you're reading this, you should come visit. Seriously. :) So I moved from my apartment to a new one. I was living in Giza, about 2 kilometers from the Great Pyramids and kinda near the Cairo metro line. Now, I am just a hop, skip, and a dodge traffic from the Nile. I have a two-bedroom, one of which I turned into an office so I can work and bang out my thesis.
- Ken Chen
Commited, Living in Panama City, Panama. Work as Senior Project Manager for a venezuelan consulting firm. On my free time I do freelance work, mostly coding web apps, also tend a two square feet orchard I planted in my balcony (only tomatoes at this time), also do volunteer work for the UN volunteer programme. I enjoy traveling, making new friends and reading a lot.
- Armie Esposia
Im a simple and a loving girl, i love to cook and i like to make friends! I dont know if im sweet (well just ask my friends about that matter.) down to earth (of course i am!). I like to do voluteer works ( I work kahit walang sweldo!!!) But that was before, ngayon well depende sa project and sa mapapag-cash-sunduan ng aking manager.
- Chris Lunk
I hate writing "about me" profiles because my life, as boring as it may be sometimes, is anything but static. In fact this profile may very well be outdated by the time I'm done typing it out. ^_^.
- Jacob
I have strange facial expressions. I read the newspaper. I love skateboarding. I love my work. I live in East Africa and love it. I heart energy for poverty reduction...google it. Holla at me. I'm a pro at the following, but only in between having 3-6 beers: playing pool, talking to women, discussing politics, and disproving the existence of God on a bar napkin using algebra.
- Nicolette Lewis
My goal is to enjoy traveling the world and somehow make a positive contribution to God's people. I think I've finally found my calling as a teacher, and am currently pursuing a Masters degree in Elementary Education.
- Kate
Ummm...Just a west coast girl trapped in DC. Seriously, lobbying to rotate the nation's capital out to San Francisco.
- Aubrey
Me? Hmmm.. a movie addict!
- Paola Franco
Born and raised in Colon City, Panama... I enjoy long walks along the beach... just being near the ocean is enough for me... talking with old friends.. realizing that life is so beautiful no matter how much we think it's unfair...not taking for granted the ones we love...having fun...appreciating every life lesson ... just several things that can make of our life so much more than just a passage through this land... it is a journey! it should be enjoyed as such.
- Henri
Find me on Facebook (I am more active there) under the New York, Columbia, or United Nations networks.
- Ayanna
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.".
- Sara Sultan
so i like to think i'm simple. but i'm not. I'm actually a middle eastern mut. relgion has chosen to reject me, so I have chosen to reject it. an identity crisis if you will. i go by many names, the newest of which is "mom" but "corndawg" is a classic. i'm slightly obsessed with going out these days. i live in paris but i have one true home and that will always be oakland. other places I call home include paris, berkeley, lafayette, istanbul, and DC.