Advisory Board and Steering Committee
Advisory Board
Prof. Dr. Patrick Bond
University of Johannesburg, South Africa
- Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg
- Main research interests: Political economy, geopolitics, political ecology (resource extraction, energy, water and climate change), social mobilization, urbanization, state-society relations and public policy
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- Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and Anthropology, Harvard University
- Research interests: Theory and Method; Embodiment and Commodification; Ritual and Religion; Medicine; Politics and Ideology; Crime and Forensics; Colonialism; Southern Africa
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Ndongo Samba Sylla
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation's West Africa Office, Senegal
- Senior Research and Program Manager at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung 's West Africa Office in Senegal
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- Professor of Economics and Founding Director of the Center for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA) at Ashoka University, India
- She works on the economics of discrimination and affirmative action, with a focus on social status and gender in India.
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- Director of the German Institute for Development and Sustainability
- Research focus: Development and knowledge sociologist
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- Professor and Chair of Epistemology of the Global South with a focus on Africa at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Bayreuth in Germany
- He is a leading decolonial theorist with over a hundred publications in the fields of African history, African politics, African development and decolonial theory.
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- President and Rector of the Central European University
- Main research interests: Anthropology of globalization, law, state and social movements
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Dr. Christa Wichterich
University lecturer, freelance author and scientist-activist
- Dr. Wichterich works as a university lecturer, freelance author and academic activist.
- Main areas of research: Globalization and development, political economy and women's work, women's movements and international women's politics, ecology and socio-ecological change
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Prof. Dr. Edward Webster
(RIP) March 29, 1942 - March 5, 2024
University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
- Distinguished Research Professor at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) and former Director of the Global Labour University (GLU) at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
- Main research interests: Labor studies, world of work, political economy and inequality
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- Full professor of Institutional and Resource Economics and an employee of Haramaya University, Ethiopia. He received BSc. in Agricultural Economics from Haramaya University, MSc. degree from Wageningen University, the Netherlands in 1997 in Management of Agricultural Knowledge Systems and PhD from Humboldt University of Berlin in Resource Economics, Germany in 2008.
He has been teaching different courses and conducted research on different issues including sustainable land management, customary pastoral land administration, food security and land use systems, climate change and pastoral adaptations, governance of river basins with a focus on institutional arrangements, and natural resource-based conflict. - Research interests: property rights and collective action in natural resource management, institutions in environmental protection, project impact evaluation, and institutional and behavioral analysis.
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- Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economics, Studies and Planning(CESP) and Associate Professor at the Centre for Informal Sector and Labor Studies (CISLS) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
- Research focus: Political economy of development, with special reference to labor, agriculture, natural resources, public finance, education, and history of economic thought
- Research Cluster: Cluster 2 - Partnerships in the Global Economy (Agriculture and Finance)
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- Professor at the Center for Informal Economy and Labor Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences
- Research interests: Contemporary history of livelihoods, labor and Adivasi resistance, women and labor, environmental and labor history
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- Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration
- Research focus: The political economy of economic change in the age of the 4th industrial revolution
- Research cluster: Cluster 2 - Partnership in the global economy (agriculture)
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- Associate Professor and Head of the Faculty of Political and International Studies
- Research interests: Development (especially post-development theory), the politics of NGO work, service learning and community engagement, transformation and decolonization of higher education, and race and privilege. These seemingly eclectic research interests are held together by the general question of whether and how relatively privileged people can contribute to the struggle for social justice.
- Research Cluster: Partnership in Knowledge Production (Eurocentrism and Alternative Knowledge)
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- Pan-African Institute for Development in West Africa and the Sahel(IPD/AOS)
- Main research areas: Social and economic appropriation of new technologies for development; social and solidarity economy, potential for job creation for young people and levers of organic agriculture, cooperatives or cooperative-like organizations, communities of interest, decentralized financial systems, village tontines, mutual health funds
- Research cluster: Cluster 1 - Partnerships in development cooperation (access, empowerment and increased participation)
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- Faculty of Ethnology
- Research focus: Social sciences, political philosophy, humanitarian aid, non-governmental organizations, international aid and assistance
- Research cluster: Cluster 1 - Partnership in development cooperation (accountability)
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Prof. Dr. Jhon Picard Byron
Université d'Etat Haiti
Haiti
- Research focus: Ethnology and history of political ideas
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- Associate Professor and Dean of the School of Development Studies
- Research interests: Organization of the informal economy, gender issues and livelihoods of rural women, decent work along agricultural value chains
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- Dean of the School of Development Studies, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Environment, Leadership and Sustainable Development
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Prof. Dr. Mehrdad Arabestani
University of Tehran
Iran
- Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Tehran
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- Associate Professor, Department of Social Planning, Faculty of Social Sciences
- Main areas of research: Urban and regional planning, industrial development, social policy
- Research cluster: Cluster 1 - Partnership in development cooperation
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- Professor, University of Kara
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- Senior Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies
- Research interests: Issues of racial power relations in relation to development and freedom, and rurality and social change in modern world systems and Caribbean societies
- Current research interests: The moral economy of markets and debt; food insecurity and the political economy of food systems; globalization, agrarian change and the future of rural areas; climate change, vulnerability and 'rural resilience' in small island states; Caribbean poiesis and African critical theory; economic philosophy and growth theory; decolonial theory, practice and poetics
- Research clusters: Cluster 2 - Partnerships in the global economy (agriculture, finance and energy), Cluster 3 - Partnerships in knowledge production (Eurocentrism and alternative knowledge)
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- Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Wits University - Globalization and Industrial Relations in the Global South
- Research focus: Labor, ecological Marxism and happiness/well-being/ecosocialism studies
- Research cluster: Cluster 3 - Partnership in knowledge production (alternative knowledge)
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- Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, editor of the "Democratic Marxism Series", principal investigator of the project "Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene"
- Main research interests: Crisis of civilization, empire, African political economy, South African international relations, transnational systemic alternatives and emancipatory futures
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- Managing Director of the GPN, Head of the Department of Development and Postcolonialism, Faculty of Social Sciences
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- Trained social anthropologist and development activist who has lived and worked with indigenous peoples and Dalit communities in India.
- He is currently the Executive Director of the ActionAid Association.
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- Project Coordinator at ActionAid International Uganda
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- Managing Director of the Caribbean Coastal Area Management Foundation
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Fitzroy Floyd
Catherine Hall Community Development Committee
Jamaica
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- Director of Earthlife Africa Johannesburg
- Two-time winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize 2018
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Dieynaba Sagnan
Enda Count Sahel
Senegal
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Mamadou Kobar
Enda Count Sahel
Senegal
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Taye Endashaw Gebrewold
Hararghe Catholic Secretariat
Ethiopia
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Raoul Vital
Institut Culturel Karl Lévêque
Haiti
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Képler Aurélien
Institute Culturel Karl Lévêque
Haiti
Coordinator of a program for inter-organizational exchange and systematization of experiences at the Institute Culturel Karl Lévêque (ICKL) in Haiti
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- President of the Jamaican Network of Rural Women Producers and member of the Women's Committee of the World Farmers' Organization
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- One of the founders of Kalpavriksh, an Indian environmental NGO
- Coordination of the Kalpavriksh program on alternatives
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- Member of Kalpavriksh since 1984
- She is a trained special educator and has worked with children with multiple disabilities in Delhi for 10 years. At Kalpavriksh, she is mainly involved in environmental education for children.
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- Program coordinator for the Kalpavriksh Documentation and Information Center and editor of its newsletter "People in Conservation"
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- Head of the Public Relations Department at medico international
- Research areas: Global health and compensation debates, international trade relations and raw materials
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- Currently working in the Department of Policy and Global Challenges of MISEREOR, the German Bishops' Organization for Development Cooperation
- His focus is on translating critical, alternative concepts of economy and prosperity into more aggregate, practical or political means of organizing an economy, such as policy and regulation, business and tax models or the like.
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- Program Manager at Third World Network-Africa
- Over 20 years of experience in international economic and trade policy, law, negotiation and advocacy; multilateral, regional and bilateral
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- Co-founder and director of the Slashroots Foundation, which supports strategy, research and implementation