Steering Committee & Academic Board

The International Steering Committee convenes at least once per year to discuss questions of all scientific and organizational matters of the center.
It determines the distribution of research resources and conference.
It selects Ela Bhatt professorship holders.
The Academic Board decides on the applications for membership of the ICDD Graduate School (PhD / Postdoc fellows) as well as on all academic issues related to the Graduate School. Its membership it is identical with the International Steering Committee, except that no ILO representative is at this board.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherrer

Director

Professor for Globalization and Politics at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Kassel
Areas of Expertise: International Political Economy: Governance of world markets, international labor standards, cross-national transfer of institutions, theories of the International Political Economy / American politics: Foreign economic policy making, industrial policy, labor politics
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Bürkert

Vice Director

head of the Section of Organic Plant Production and Agroecosystems Research in the Tropics and Subtropics at the University of Kassel
His research focuses on carbon and plant nutrient cycling in agroecosystems to analyse management effects on system sustainability, the role of organic amendments and mineral fertilisers on plant nutrient availability and product quality, and on nutrient acquisition by plants in marginal and intensive environments
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Dr. Mubashir Mehdi

Representative of the agricultural sciences universities

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Prof. Dr. Michelle Williams

Representative of the social sciences

Prof. Dr. Michelle Williams is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg South Africa and chair person for the Global Labour University Programme (GLU) at Wits.

Home Info

University of the Witwatersrand

Prof. Dr. Michelle Williams

Address:

1 Jan Smuts Avenue
Braamfontein 2000
Johannesburg 2000
South Africa

Michelle.Williams[at]wits.ac.za

Dr. Emmanuel Tenkorang

Dr. Emmanuel Tenkorang is the Director of Institute for Development Studies, University of Cape Coast, Ghana

Home Info:

Post Office Box UC 97, Cape Coast, Ghana
+233-20-8195279
eytenkorang[at]ucc.edu.gh or eytenkorang[at]yahoo.co.uk

Dr. Varsha Ayyar

Dr. Varsha Ayyar is an Assistant Professor at the Mumbai Campus of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). She is also a Chairperson of the Centre for Labour Studies, School of Management and Labour Studies.

Contact info:

ayyarv[at]tiss.edu