Jim Lobe

Jim Lobe

male
journalist, developing country, correspondent, news agency, Inter Press Service, developingcountries
Jim Lobe has served as Washington D.C. correspondent and Bureau Chief of Inter Press Service (IPS) from 1980 to 1985, and again from 1989 to the...
Anne O. Krueger

Anne O. Krueger

female
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Johns Hopkins University faculty, Distinguished Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, Stanford University, American Economic Association…developingcountries, developing country
Anne Olive Krueger is an economist and was the former World Bank Chief Economist from 1982 to 1986. She was the first Deputy Managing Director of...
Douglass North

Douglass North

male, 89 years old
Robert William Fogel, United States Merchant Marine, American, Sailor, Institutional economist, Oliver Williamson…developingcountries
Douglass Cecil North (born November 5, 1920) is co-recipient (with Robert William Fogel of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economics. In the words of the...
Ingo Potrykus

Ingo Potrykus

male, 76 years old
wheat, University of Cologne, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Max-Planck Institute, malnutrition, developingcountries
Ingo Potrykus - retired since April 1999 - was full Professor of Plant Sciences, specifically of Biotechnology of Plants, at the Institute of Plant...
Simon Anholt

Simon Anholt

male
British, diplomacy, Non-fiction writer, crocodile dundee, British political consultant, developingcountries
Simon Anholt is a British government advisor specializing in the field of nation branding. Anholt has advised numerous governments and edits the...
Brian Tucker

Brian Tucker

male
MacArthur Fellows Program, developingcountries, Gorakha Dakshin Bahu Award, non-governmental agency, Earth scientist, Pomona College alumni
Brian E. Tucker is a a disaster prevention specialist and seismologist. He is the founder (1991) and president of Palo Alto-based GeoHazards...
Akhtar Hameed Khan

Akhtar Hameed Khan

male, deceased (1999)
highest honours, Muslim, Civil decorations of Pakistan, Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge, Nishan-e-imtiaz, Economist…developingcountries, Developing world
Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914-1999) was a development activist and social scientist credited for pioneering microcredit and microfinance...
Manfred Max-Neef

Manfred Max-Neef

male, 77 years old
fundamental human needs, Valdivia, Chile, Universidad Austral de Chile, Recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, chilean, rector…developingcountries
Manfred Max-Neef (b. October 26, 1932 in Valparaiso, Chile) is a Chilean economist and ecologist. Max-Neef started his career as a teacher of...
Nicholas F. Brady

Nicholas F. Brady

male, 79 years old
Bonesman, Yale University alumni, Irish-American, Harvard Business School alumni, Business Person, United States Senator…developingcountries
Nicholas Frederick Brady (born April 11 1930, in New York City) was United States Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Ronald Reagan and...
Kelly Carlson

Kelly Carlson

female, 33 years old
Nip/Tuck actor, Nip/Tuck, Girls Guide to Chaos, Can't Trust the Mate, modeled, Vanities…developingcountries
Kelly Carlson (born February 17, 1976) is an American actress. She is known for her current role as Kimber Henry on "Nip/Tuck". In 2001 she was...