Steering Committee & Academic Board
(Kopie 16)
Prof. Dr. Fekadu Beyene
Haramaya University
Ethiopia
- Dr. Mengistu Urge has been working for Haramaya University for over 30 years
- Research interests: Animal science, especially animal nutrition and stress physiology
Prof. Dr. Praveen Jha
Jawaharlal Nehru University
India
- Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic, Studies and Planning (CESP) and Associate Professor at the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies (CISLS), part of the School 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 - Partnership in the Global Economy (Agriculture and Finance)
Prof. Dr. Archana Prasad
Jawaharlal Nehru University
India
- Professor at the Centre for Informal Sector & Labour Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences
- Research interests: Contemporary history of Adivasi livelihoods, labor and resistance, women and labor, environmental and labor history
Prof. Dr. Julius Kiiza
Makerere University
Uganda
- Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration
- Research focus: The political economy of economic transformation in the age of the 4th industrial revolution.
- Research Cluster: Cluster 2 - Partnership in the Global Economy (Agriculture)
Prof. Dr. Sally Matthews
Rhodes University
South Africa
- Associate Professor and Head of the Department 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 ethnicity and privilege. These seemingly eclectic research interests are held together by a general concern with whether and how the relatively privileged can contribute to struggles for social justice.
- Research Cluster: Partnership in Knowledge Production (Eurocentrism and Alternative Knowledge)
Dr. Sylvestre Ouédraogo
Université des Sciences Appliquées du Développement
Burkina Faso
- Pan-African Institute for Development West Africa and Sahel(IPD/AOS)
- Main research areas: Social and economic appropriation of new technologies for development; social and solidarity economy, job creation potential for young people and levers of organic agriculture, cooperative or quasi-cooperative organizations, common interest groups, decentralized financial systems, village tontines, mutual health insurances
- Research cluster: Cluster 1 - Partnerships in development cooperation (access, empowerment and increased participation)
Dr. Pierre-Louis Odonel
Université d'Etat Haiti
Haiti
- Faculté d'Ethnologie
- Main research interests: Social sciences, political philosophy, humanitarianism, NGOs, international aid and assistance
- Research cluster: Cluster 1 - Partnership in development cooperation (accountability)
Prof. Dr. Jhon Picard Byron
Université d'Etat Haiti
Haiti
- Research focus: Ethnology and the history of political ideas
Prof. Dr. Angela Akorsu
University of Cape Coast
Ghana
- Associate Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Development Studies Faculty of Development Studies
- Research interests: Organization of the informal economy, gender and the living conditions of women in rural areas, decent work along agricultural value chains
- Dean of the School for Development Studies, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Environment, Governance and Sustainable Development
Prof. Dr. Mehrdad Arabestani
University of Tehran
Iran
- Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Tehran
- 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
- Professor, University of Kara
- Senior research fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies
- Research interests: Problems of racial power in 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, agricultural change and rural futures; climate change, vulnerability and 'rural resilience' in small island states; Caribbean poiesis and Africana Critical Theory; economic philosophy and growth theory; decolonial theory, practice and ethics
- Research clusters: Cluster 2 - Partnership in the Global Economy (Agriculture, Finance and Energy), Cluster 3 - Partnership in Knowledge Production (Eurocentrism and Alternative Knowledge)
- Professor, Wits Department of Sociology - 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)
- Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Editor of the Democratic Marxism Series, Principal Investigator for the Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene project
- Main research interests: Civilizational crisis, empire, African political economy, South African international relations, transnational systemic alternatives and emancipatory futures
- Executive Director of the GPN, Head of the Department of Development and Postcolonial Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences
He is a 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.
- Project Coordinator at ActionAid International Uganda
Miphal Ousmane Lankoande
Balai Citoyen
Burkina Faso
- Executive Secretary of the civil society movement Balai Citoyen and sociologist
- Executive Director of the Caribbean Coastal Area Management Foundation
- Director of Earthlife Africa Johannesburg
- Two-time recipient of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize
- Head of secretariat at Enda Graf Sahel
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), Haiti
- President of the Jamaica Network of Women Farmers and member of the Women's Committee of the World Farmers' Organization
- One of the founders of Kalpavriksh, an Indian environmental NGO
- Coordination of Kalpavriksh's program on alternatives
Member of Kalpavriksh since 1984
She is a trained special educator and has worked with children with multiple disabilities in Delhi for 10 years. Her main involvement with Kalpavriksh is in the field of environmental education for children.
- Program coordinator for the Kalpavriksh Documentation and Consultation Center and editor of the newsletter "People in Conservation
- Head of the Public Relations Department at medico international
- Research areas: global health and compensation debates, international trade relations and raw materials
Currently working in the Department of Policy and Global Challenges of MISEREOR, the German bishops' aid organization for development cooperation
His focus is on translating critical, alternative concepts of economy and prosperity into more concrete, practical or political means of organizing an economy, such as policy and regulation, business and tax models or similar.
- Head of the Program Department of the Third World Network-Africa
- Over 20 years of experience in international economic and trade policy, law, negotiations and advocacy; multilateral, regional and bilateral
- Co-founder and director of the Slashroots Foundation, which supports strategy, research and implementation
Dr. Ousmane Pame
Réseau pour l'Émergence et le Développement des Ecovillages au Sahel - REDES
Senegal
Founder and President of REDES