Faculty The IDEV faculty members, both full-time faculty and adjunct professors, come from many academic disciplines, professions and backgrounds - a diversity that is evident in their ideas and their teaching. They are concerned with both theoretical issues and with the larger historical, philosophical, and policy questions that the great post-war development efforts have given rise to worldwide. Equally important, they bring to the classroom deep and broad practical experience, enriching their teaching with recent case studies and fresh perspectives. Cinnamon Dornsife, IDEV Interim Co-Director
Interim Co-Director of the International Development Program and Practitioner in residence at SAIS, Ms. Dornsife has over thirty years experience in international banking, economic development, and foreign policy. An expert in Asian-Pacific affairs, Ms. Dornsife’s prior experience includes service as the Ambassador and Executive Director, representing the US on the Board of Directors at the Asian Development Bank. Prior to the ADB, she worked with The Asia Foundation for thirteen years (1979-1992) serving as Washington Representative and a number of field positions in Indonesia. Ms. Dornsife’s career in international development has also included work for the World Bank, the US Department of Agriculture, the US-Asia Environmental Partnership and the Pathfinder Fund. She currently serves on a number of boards including the World Trade Partnership, the Development Executive Group, the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area and the US-Indonesia Society. She is a member of the Washington Institute for Foreign Affairs. Ms. Dornsife received a Master’s Degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry and Mathematics from Emory University. She teaches the courses Assessing the Role of International Financial Institutions: Past, Present and Future and New Trends in Management Principles and Practices of International Development NGOS (INGOS).
Course: New Trends in Management Principles and Practices of International Development NGOS (INGOS).
Course Number: 400.727
Fall 2011 Course: Assessing the role of the International Financial Institutions Past, Present and Future
Course Number: 400.727
Spring 2012
Office Hours Spring 2012: Wednesday 2:30 - 4:30pm and Friday 2:30 - 4:30pm (20 min meetings) or by request for other times - e-mail at cdornsife@jhu.edu Maya Ajmera, Visiting Scholar
Ms. Ajmera is the founder and most recently the President of The Global Fund for Children, a venture philanthropy that invests in innovative, community-based organizations working with some of the world’s most vulnerable children and youth. Under Maya’s leadership, GFC has awarded over $20 million in capital to nearly 420 grassroots organizations in 75 countries reaching well over 1 million children. In addition, GFC has a dynamic media program focused on children’s books, films, digital media, and documentary photography. She is an award winning children’s book author of 20 titles including Children from Australia to Zimbabwe, Faith, and To Be a Kid with over 2 million readers worldwide. Maya is a recipient of numerous leadership awards including the 2011 Henry Crown Fellowship of the Aspen Institute. She is sought out nationally and internationally to address audiences on local and global philanthropy, global children’s rights, early childhood education and development, and social entrepreneurship. Her work and life story have been profiled by such media outlets as CNN, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Financial Times, NPR, and many others. Maya serves on the board of visitors of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. She is Vice Chairman of the board of Echoing Green, a social entrepreneurship venture capital fund, is a trustee of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, and a board member of New Global Citizens. Maya received a master's degree in public policy from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and a bachelor's degree in biology from Bryn Mawr College. Maya will be with IDEV for Academic Year 2011-2012. In the spring semester, she will have a joint appointment with the Center for Global Development.
Melissa Lumpkin Baez
Melissa Baez is project manager for ACCION International's Global Programs team, with over 10 years of experience working in the financial sector. Currently based in Washington D.C., she is responsible for managing short-term technical assistance provided to ACCION's microfinance partners in Africa and Haiti. Her areas of expertise include institutional transformation, business planning, financial analysis and projection modeling. She is also a board member of ACCION's partner, SOGESOL, in Haiti. Ms. Baez began her career in microfinance with PlaNet Finance in Paris, working on the development of its investment fund, MicroCred. In 2006 she joined ACCION as a resident advisor for PADME Benin, managing the institution's transformation from an NGO to a regulated, share capital company. Prior to entering the field of microfinance, Ms. Baez worked in wealth management for five years at JPMorgan Private Bank in New York City and Geneva, Switzerland. Ms. Baez holds an International M.B.A. from the Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina and a Bachelor of Science in Business (Finance major) from the University of Colorado. She co-teaches Microfinance and Development with Victoria White.
Course: Microfinance and Development - Section 2
Course Number: 400.759.02
Fall 2011 (Co-taught with Victoria White)
Monica Brand
Monica Brand has spent her career in the financial services and social enterprise sectors, expanding and enhancing the value offered to the majority. Ms. Brand currently manages Frontier Investments, an early stage equity fund sponsored by ACCION International to invest in early stage companies with disruptive business models that catalyze breakthrough innovation in financial inclusion. Prior to assuming responsibility for managing this fund, Ms. Brand launched and ran ACCION’s Marketing & Product Development Unit, where she oversaw the creation of new financial services to move the industry beyond microcredit. Before joining ACCION, Ms. Brand worked with Anthuri Ventures – an early stage equity fund based in Cape Town, South Africa – and founded Anthuri Catalysts to help prepare potential portfolio companies for investment. Ms Brand began her career in financial services in California where she worked as a commercial loan officer of a green fund and separately, helped launch a $50 million multi-bank lending intermediary to finance small businesses and community facilities. Ms. Brand’s professional experience also includes training and teaching at all levels, including working as a business trainer of female entrepreneurs at the Women’s Initiative for Self-Employment (WISE) and as a case-writer for 2nd year MBAs at Harvard Business School. Ms Brand currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) teaching a graduate-level course on impact investing. Ms. Brand received both a M.B.A. and a master's of education from Stanford University and her Bachelors of Arts degree in Economics from Williams College, where she graduated with honors. She co-teaches Impact Investing: Financial Inclusion and Creating Value at the Base of the Pyramid with Gil Crawford.
Course: Impact Investing: Financial Inclusion and Creating Value at the Base of the Pyramid
Course Number: 400.724
Spring 2012 (Co-taught with Gilbert Crawford)
Mayra Buvinic
Mayra Buvinic, a Chilean national and internationally respected expert on gender issues and on social development, most recently was Director of Gender and Development at the World Bank (2005-2011), where she launched and implemented a four-year ‘Gender Action Plan: Gender Equality as Smart Economics.’ Before joining the Bank, she was Chief of the Social Development Division at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the IDB’s Special Advisor on Violence Prevention (1996-2005). Prior to this, she was a founding member and President of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) in Washington, D.C (1976-1996). She is past President of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) and member of a number of non-profit boards, including the International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka, and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria. She has a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She teaches Gender and Development.
Course: Gender and Development
Course Number: SA.400.824.01
Fall 2011 Daniel Calingaert
Daniel Calingaert oversees Freedom House's global portfolio of civil society and media programs. He previously was Professorial Lecturer at American University, Associate Director of American University's Center for Democracy and Election Management, and Associate Director of the Commission on Federal Election Reform, which was co-chaired by Jimmy Carter and James A. Baker, III. Dr. Calingaert has served as Director for Asia and as Deputy Director for Eastern Europe at the International Republican Institute, where he designed and managed a wide range of programs to promote democracy. These programs strengthened civil society, parliaments, governance, political parties, and elections in more than a dozen countries. Dr. Calingaert began his career as a researcher at the RAND Corporation and later directed programs of the Civic Education Project to reform social science education at universities across Eastern Europe and Eurasia. He graduated with highest honors in International Relations from Tufts University and earned his M.Phil. and D.Phil. from Oxford University. Dr. Calingaert co-teaches Democracy Promotion: Programs and Policies with Dr. Robert Herman.
Course: Democracy Promotion: Programs and Policies
Course Number: 400.816
Spring 2012 (Co-taught with Robert Herman) Thomas Carothers
Thomas Carothers is director of the Democracy and Rule of Law Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a research project that analyzes the state of democracy around the world and efforts by Western governments, non-governmental organizations, and international institutions to promote democracy abroad. Widely recognized as a leading international authority on democracy promotion, Mr. Carothers has worked on democracy assistance projects for many public and private organizations and carried out extensive field research on democracy-building programs in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. He is the author or editor of seven books on democracy and rule of law promotion, including most recently Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: In Search of Knowledge (Carnegie, 2006). He has worked as an attorney at Arnold & Porter in Washington and at the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, the London School of Economics, and Harvard College. He is not teaching in AY 2011-2012. Marc Cohen
Marc Cohen is senior researcher on humanitarian policy and climate change at Oxfam America in Washington, DC. His current research focuses on global food price volatility and its effects on low-income households; the impacts of climate change and biofuel production on food security and nutrition; protection of civilians in conflict situations; conflict and food security; agriculture and post-conflict/post-disaster reconstruction; the transition from emergency assistance to development; governance and gender issues in rural development; and the human right to food. His recent publications include “Conflict, Food Insecurity and Globalization" (with Ellen Messer) in Globalization of Food and Agriculture and the Poor (Oxford University Press, 2008, von Braun and Diaz-Bonilla, eds.); The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009 – contributor and co-editor with Jennifer Clapp); “The Food Price Crisis and Urban Food (In)security,” Environment and Urbanization (October 2010, co-author with James Garrett); An Ounce of Prevention: Preparing for the Impact of a Changing Climate on US Humanitarian and Disaster Response (Oxfam America and C N A, 2011 – co-author with E.D. McGrady); Global Food-price Shocks and Poor People: Themes and Case Studies (Routledge, 2011 – contributor and co-editor with Melinda Smale); and Impact of Climate Change and Bioenergy on Nutrition (Springer/Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011 – contributor and co-editor with Brian Thompson). Professor Cohen has carried out field research in Ethiopia, Haiti, Taiwan, Thailand, Uganda, and the United States. He received his B.A. in French from Carleton College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He co-teaches the course Rural Development and the World Food Crisis with Professor Peter Veit.
Course: Rural Development and the World Food Crisis
Course Number: 400.900
Spring 2012 (co-taught with Peter Veit) Gilbert Crawford
Mr. Crawford is the CEO of MicroVest Capital Management, LLC, a U.S.-based commercial microfinance asset manager. Mr. Crawford is responsible for developing and implementing business development strategies, including fund structuring, and supervising investment deals. He has over 25 years of experience in the microfinance industry, with extensive exposure to MFIs and capital markets in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Prior to helping found MicroVest in 2003, Mr. Crawford worked for the Latin American Financial Markets Division at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), founded and ran Seed Capital Development Fund, served as the Assistant Project Director for USAID’s Africa Venture Capital Project, and worked in Africa under the Red Cross and U.S. State Department. Mr. Crawford is a graduate of SAIS at Johns Hopkins University and Bates College. He serves on the Board of Directors of the DC Central Kitchens and on the Steering Committee for the Agriculture Finance Support Facility, a World Bank initiative supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He co-teaches Impact Investing: Financial Inclusion and Creating Value at the Base of the Pyramid with Monica Brand.
Course: Impact Investing: Financial Inclusion and Creating Value at the Base of the Pyramid
Course Number: 400.724
Spring 2012 (Co-taught with Monica Brand)
Hazel Denton
Professor Denton has had a lifelong interest in population issues in a broad career covering advertising and marketing, academia, government service, and twenty years at the World Bank. She is currently a consultant in the areas of health and population, with a particular focus on HIV/AIDS. At the World Bank, Ms. Denton’s operational experience centered on Sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe, and she headed the Board Operations Division of the Corporate Secretariat. She has taught at the Harvard Business School, worked on foreign aid issues at the Congressional Budget Office and on the National Security Council, and was with London Economist's, Intelligence Unit. She holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. At SAIS Ms. Denton teaches Population and Development Policies. She is not teaching AY 2011-2012.
William A. Douglas, IDEV Interim Co-Director
Dr. Douglas is an educator, trained in the field of international relations, and specializes in democracy in developing countries, international labor affairs, and international ethics. He has taught university students at SAIS, adults in a mid-career graduate program at Georgetown University, foreign visitors to the U.S., U.S. Foreign Service officers, and Latin American, African, and East European trade unionists. He has over three decades of practical experience in international labor affairs, and has lived and worked for extended periods in Europe, Latin America, and Asia (where he has twice been a Fulbright Lecturer in Korea). At SAIS, he co-teaches Labor in Developing Countries and teaches Ethics, Choice and a Just World Order. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Washington, an M.A. from SAIS, and a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. Dr. Douglas has returned to IDEV as interim Co-Director, returning from serving as the Fei Yi-Ming Professor of Comparative Politics at the Hopkins Nanjing Center.
Office Hours Spring 2012: Tues 11:30 - 12:30 p.m. Wed. 10:30 - 11:30 A.M. Thurs. 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Jeanne Downing
Dr. Downing is the Senior Business Development Services (BDS) Advisor at the USAID Global Bureau's Office of Microenterprise Development. She has worked on small and microenterprise development over the last twenty years, focusing primarily on business development services. This work has included urban-rural linkage analysis as part of a cooperative agreement with Clark University; agribusiness initiatives promoted by USAID's former Office of Market Development; research on microenterprise development under the former GEMINI Project and with a World-Bank, small and micro enterprise development research project; and as a long-term consultant for MD's MicroServe Project. Dr. Downing teaches the course Value Chains and Micro and Small Enterprise Growth. She is not teaching in AY 2011-2012.
Kate Griffin
Kate Druschel Griffin is a microfinance professional with regional experience in Asia. At Grameen Foundation, she has overseen work in the Philippines, East Timor, and Indonesia, and led GF’s strategic expansion into China. She is currently launching an initiative to impact the world’s poorest people with innovative microfinance and technology services. Prior to joining Grameen Foundation, Kate worked with the IRIS Center at the University of Maryland, focusing on building better enabling environments for microfinance in work with multilateral donors and country governments. She also worked on a USAID project to develop country-level poverty assessment tools. A fluent Mandarin Chinese speaker, Kate has lived and worked in China with short-term assignments throughout Asia. She holds an MA in International Development from American University and a BA from Kenyon College.
Course: Microfinance and Development -Section 1
Course Number: 400.759.01
Fall 2011 (Co-taught with Elissa McCarter)
Robert Herman
Dr. Robert Herman has more than twenty-five years of experience in democracy promotion and human rights. He is presently Director of Programs for Freedom House, where he oversees a range of programs to advance democracy and human rights in every region of the world. He has done work in dozens of countries as both an NGO representative and a U.S. Government official, having been directly involved in efforts to support democracy and human rights, whether through citizen participation in the policymaking process, conducting analyses, taking part in conferences and strategy sessions, or designing and implementing programs. Before joining Freedom House, Dr. Herman was Senior Technical Director for Democracy and Governance at Management Systems International. He was the co-founder and co-director of the Democracy Coalition Project, a global democracy promotion initiative of the Open Society Institute and previously served on the State Department's Policy Planning staff working on democracy and human rights. As Senior Social Scientist with USAID's Bureau for Europe and the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union, Dr. Herman helped to craft U.S. assistance strategies to countries making the transition from communist rule. He has held positions with the Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, U.S. Mission to NATO in Brussels and served as a staff member in the U.S. Congress. Dr. Herman is the author of numerous articles, reports and studies, a frequent speaker at conferences, a guest lecturer at universities in the U.S. and internationally, and has testified before Congress. He earned his PhD in Government from Cornell University, received a Masters degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton University) and a Bachelors degree from Swarthmore College. Dr. Herman co-teaches Democracy Promotion: Programs and Policies with Dr. Daniel Calingaert.
Course: Democracy Promotion: Programs and Policies
Course Number: 400.816
Spring 2012 (Co-taught with Daniel Calingaert) Brian Levy
Brian Levy currently is Head of the Bank’s Governance and Anti-Corruption Secretariat in the World Bank – from where co-ordinates implementation of the Bank Group’s GAC strategy. He is the author of Governance Reform: Bridging Monitoring and Action (World Bank, 2007), which builds on his 2006 work on governance monitoring featured in the 2006 Global Monitoring Report, Mutual Accountability: Aid, Trade and Governance . He worked in the World Bank's Africa Vice Presidency from 1991 to 2003 on the challenges of strengthening the institutional underpinnings of African development, for the last four years as sector manager of the Africa Public Sector Reform and Capacity Building Unit. He was a member of the core team which produced the World Bank’s 1997 World Development Report, The State in a Changing World. He has published numerous books and articles on the interactions between public institutions, the private sector and development in Africa, East Asia, and elsewhere, most recently editing (jointly with Sahr Kpundeh) the volume, Building State Capacity in Africa (World Bank Institute, 2004) Prior to joining the Bank he was assistant professor in development economics at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He completed his Ph.D in economics at Harvard University in 1983.
Course: Development Strategies
Course Number: 400.816
Fall 2011 Benjamin Loevinsohn
Benjamin Loevinsohn is a Canadian physician and a lead public health specialist at the World Bank which he joined in 1999. He is currently the health, nutrition, and population cluster leader for central Africa, a post he has recently taken up after working for many years as team leader for health sector activities in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Prior to joining the World Bank, Dr. Loevinsohn worked as a senior health specialist at the Asian Development Bank (1993-1999), advisor to Philippine Department of Health (1990-1993); Technical Officer, UNICEF, Sudan (1987-1989); and Primary Care Physician, Government of Nicaragua (1984-1985). Dr. Loevinsohn did his medical training at McMaster University in Canada and studied public health at Harvard University. He is the author of more than 25 articles in peer reviewed journals. His particular interests are in monitoring and evaluation (M&E), contracting for health service delivery (he is the author of a book on contracting entitled “Performance-Based Contracting for Health Services in Developing Countries – A Toolkit”), results-based financing, and health system strengthening in post-conflict settings. He co-teaches Comparative Health Systems in Developing Countries.
Course: Comparative Health Systems in Developing Countries
Course Number: 400.746 Spring 2011
Spring 2012
Elissa McCarter
Elissa McCarter is the Director of Development Finance at CHF International Headquarters, where she manages CHF’s microfinance and middle market lending operations in 11 countries around the world. She has over ten years' experience as a microfinance field practitioner, having started up and managed two MFIs in Armenia and Turkey, and serving as technical advisor to MFIs in Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Elissa is the author of two books on microfinance mergers and has published several articles on new product development, women in microfinance, microfinance and climate change, and middle market lending. She received a MS from the joint degree program of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.
Course: Microfinance and Development -Section 1
Course Number: 400.759.01 Fall 2011 (Co-taught with Kate Griffin)
Joshua Michaud
Josh Michaud is a Senior Policy Analyst, Global Health with the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), an independent non-profit foundation that is a non-partisan source of facts, information, and analysis on U.S. domestic and global health policy issues, and previously served as a Senior Research Associate with the Global Health and Foreign Policy Initiative at SAIS. In the past, he has worked as a Senior Analyst within the U.S. Department of Defense, an Epidemiologist with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and an independent consultant in global health supporting the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, and others. Josh earned a Ph.D. in International Health Policy from SAIS, as well as a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, an M.H.S. in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and an M.A. in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University. His interdisciplinary research has focused on the links between global health and foreign policy, in particular the political and economic aspects of emerging infectious diseases.
Course: Introduction to Public Health for Development Practicioners
Course Number: 400.807.01 Fall 2011
Paul Miller
Mr. Miller is an Africa team leader and policy adviser at Catholic Relief Services' headquarters. With more than 20 years of experience in international relief, development and human rights work, including 16 years with CRS, Mr. Miller has managed aid programs from emergency relief and microenterprise in Africa to human rights in Bosnia and Brazil for organizations such as USAID and the U.N. He received his M.A. in International Relations from SAIS. He teaches Humanitarianism, Aid and Politics.
Course: Humanitarianism, Aid, and Politics.
Course Number: 400.769
Spring 2012 Megha Mukim, Visiting Scholar
Megha Mukim is currently a Visiting Research Scholar at the United States International Commission (USITC). She submitted her PhD at the London School of Economics at the Department of International Development. Before coming to SAIS she was based as a Visiting Research Scholar at Columbia University. Her graduate degrees are from the universities of London and Cambridge. Her professional experience has been accumulated in research departments of the World Trade Organization, World Health Organization and Yale University. Her current academic research focuses on different aspects of how changes in market structures and industrial or trade policy can affect growth and the re-distribution of resources. Ms. Mukim will be with us for fall semester 2011, and will be co-teaching the Introduction to Development in fall semester 2011.
Course: Introduction to Development (co-taught with Melissa Thomas)
Course Number: 400.821
Fall 2011
Tanvi Nagpal
Professor Nagpal has a PhD in Political Science from Brown University. Prior to joining SAIS she was a consultant to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Director of Programs at Global Water Challenge, an NGO focused on safe water and sanitation issues in developing countries. Dr. Nagpal worked on environmental issues at the World Bank for ten years prior to that. She served as an Adjunct Professor at GWU from 2001-2007. In her work at GWU, she both advised students and taught two courses, including “Local Impacts of Globalization”. At IDEV, she anchors the 2010-2011 IDEV Human Development track, advises students, and she will give oral exams for selected graduating IDEV students. She advises on IDEV program planning and course offerings in Human Development. She teaches the course Delivering Services in Developing Countries and Local Impacts of Globalization.
Course: Delivering Services in Developing Countries
Course Number: 400.749
Fall 2011
Office Hours Fall 2011: Tuesday 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Wednesday 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
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Course: Local Impacts of Globalization
Course Number: 400.744
Spring 2012
Office Hours Spring 2012: Tuesday 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Wednesday 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Maria Otero- currently Under Secretary, Global Affairs, US Department of State
Ms. Otero is president and CEO of ACCION International, a U.S. non-profit devoted to microenterprise development. Her responsibilities there include organizational development, fundraising, and congressional relations. Skilled in governance, program development, training, and microenterprise development, Otero has extensive experience in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Otero was appointed by President Clinton to serve as Chair of the Board of the Inter-American Foundation, and has also served on numerous other boards, including Bread for the World and the Women's Leadership Conference. She holds an M.A. in international studies from SAIS. Otero co-taught Microfinance and Development but will not be teaching during her service with the Obama Administration.
Raul Roman
Raul is the co-founder of UBELONG, an innovative social venture that makes international volunteer service accessible to people of all backgrounds. Through his work at UBELONG, Raul helps empower hundreds of people to get involved in international development work across a broad range of practice areas. For almost 15 years, Raul served as a research and strategy consultant to major corporations, governments, top international organizations, grassroots nonprofits and universities on projects in more than 20 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America, mostly focusing on agriculture and rural development, governance and telecommunications. He is a specialist in research methods and evaluation approaches in developing country contexts. Raul earned MS and PhD degrees in Communication and International Development at Cornell University. After graduating from Cornell, he held research and teaching positions at the Technology and Social Change Group at the University of Washington, Seattle, and at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. An adjunct professor at SAIS since 2008, Raul teaches Practical Research Methods.
Course: Practical Research Methods
Course Number: SA.400.700
Fall 2011
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Course: Practical Research Methods
Course Number: SA.400.700
Spring 2012
Bruce Schlein
Bruce Schlein is Vice President of Environmental Affairs for Citigroup where he advises on corporate environmental and social policies, business opportunities and footprint, and, additionally leads the environmental portfolio for the Citigroup Foundation. Prior, he served as Sustainable Development Manager at Bechtel International. Bruce has worked for nonprofits including Save the Children, Catholic Relief Service and at the US Peace Corps, with a career start as a designer at an architectural firm. Bruce is a member of the Institute for Social and Ethical Accountability, a graduate of Cornell University and holds a Masters in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He teaches Corporate Social Responsibility: The Common Good and the Corporate Good.
Course: Corporate Social Responsibility: The Common Good and the Corporate Good
Course Number: 400.806
Fall 2011 Dorothy Sobol
Dorothy Sobol is the coordinator of the Emerging Markets Specialization and Senior Adjunct Professor of International Economics and Emerging Markets. She joined the SAIS faculty in 1998 as a professorial Lecturer and assumed her current position in January 2001. Dr. Sobol worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1978 to 2006, focusing primarily on the emerging markets and international financial markets. During her time there, she founded and was the editor of Current Issues in Economics and Finance. She also served as Assistant to the President (1992-1993) and Assistant Secretary of the Bank (1992-1994). From 1985-1987, Dr. Sobol was on leave of absence to serve as Senior Fellow in Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. She retired from the Bank as vice president in the Research and Market Analysis Group in June 2006. Dr. Sobol is the author of articles on foreign ownership of U.S. Treasury Securities, private capital flows to central and eastern Europe, prospects for LDC debt management, a perspective on the LDC debt crisis, the financial role of the IMF in promoting adjustment with growth, currency diversification and LDC debt, the SDR in private international finance, and the substitution account. She holds a B.A. degree from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University where she is currently a member of the Board of Overseers. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She teaches Financial Sector Developments in Emerging Markets and Financial Globalization, Currency Crises, and the Emerging Markets.
Course: Financial Sector Developments in Emerging Markets
Course Number: 400.820
Fall 2011
Office Hours Fall 2011: Wednesday 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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Course: Financial Globalization, Currency Crises and the Emerging Markets
Course Number: 400.821
Spring 2012
Office Hours Spring 2012: Wednesday 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Victor Tanner
Mr. Tanner has designed and implemented emergency relief programs in Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans since 1988 for Médecins Sans Frontières, the International Rescue Committee, Save the Children (UK), U.N. agencies and USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA). His main research focus is the political repercussions of humanitarian assistance. He led a one-year review of the political context of OFDA’s programs in the former Yugoslavia. He is currently assisting USAID to structure its emergency relief and rehabilitation response in Afghanistan. Mr. Tanner received his M.A. in international relations from SAIS. He teaches Humanitarianism, Aid and Politics. He is not teaching in AY 2010-2011. Melissa Thomas
Melissa Thomas is an Associate Professor of International Development. She is an expert in issues of governance, corruption, rule of law and aid effectiveness. Dr. Thomas has worked with the World Bank, USAID, DFID, the U.S. Department of Defense, and counterpart governments, providing policy and technical advice, conducting negotiations, monitoring the implementation of conditions, designing and managing technical assistance projects, and conducting qualitative and quantitative studies. Her current research focus is the operation of neopatrimonial states and U.S. foreign policy towards those states. Thomas holds a B.A. in computer and information science from the University of California, Santa Cruz; a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley; and a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University. She teaches Delivering Development Assistance, Corruption in Developing and Transition Countries, Law and Development, as well as co-teaching Introduction to Development.
Course: Introduction to Development (co-taught with Megha Mukim)
Course Number: 400.821
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Course: Corruption in Developing and Transition Countries
Course Number: 400.819
Fall 2011
Office Hours Fall 2011: Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Course: Delivering Development Assistance
Course Number: 400.735
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Course: Law and Development
Course Number: 400.822
Spring 2012
Office Hours Spring 2012: Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Robert Thompson, Visiting Scholar
Bob Thompson's expertise includes agricultural policy, agricultural and rural development, agricultural trade, agricultural commodities, food security, globalization, developing nations, rural poverty. He is Professor emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he held the Gardner endowed chair in agricultural policy; also senior fellow, global agricultural development and food security Chicago Council on Global Affairs; previously served as director of rural development at the World Bank; president and CEO of the Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development; Dean of Agriculture and Professor of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University; assistant secretary for economics at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, senior staff economist for food and agriculture at the Council of Economic Advisers; currently serves on USDA-USTR Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee for Trade, International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council, and Land O’Lakes board of directors; honorary doctorates from the Pennsylvania State University and Dalhousie University; fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science; foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry and of the Ukrainian Academy of Agricultural Sciences; former president, International Association of Agricultural Economists; Ph.D., agricultural economics, Purdue University. Professor Thompson holds a joint appointment with IDEV and ERE and will be at SAIS for two academic years.
Peter Veit
Peter Veit is Senior Fellow and Regional Director for Africa at the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C. He is an environmental governance expert with more than 25 years of development experience working throughout Africa and parts of Asia. Veit currently leads WRI's Equity, Poverty and Environment Initiative which seeks to promote environmental justice by ensuring the government policies result in fair distributions of environmental costs and benefits. He also conducts policy research on property rights and public-private land transfers, and on legislative representation of poor people and local environmental needs. His previous work focused on strengthening environmental procedural rights, democratizing environmental decentralizations, promoting community-based natural resource management, strengthening public interest environmental law organizations and other democratic institutions in Africa, and supporting pro-poor regional bodies and global instruments. He co-teaches Rural Development and the World Food Crisis with Marc Cohen.
Course: Rural Development and the World Food Crisis
Course Number: 400.900
Spring 2012 (Co-taught with Marc Cohen)
Victoria White
Victoria White has ten years of professional microfinance experience. Through her work with leading microfinance support institutions, ACCION International and CALMEADOW, and USAID’s Office of Microenterprise Development, she has provided technical assistance to over twenty microfinance institutions in over a dozen countries in Africa. Her technical areas include: transformation planning, financial projection modeling, financial management, and management information systems. She currently serves as Vice President and Project Manager for ACCION International’s International Operations Department. Prior to working in microfinance, Ms. White was a bank examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Ms. White holds a BA in Political Science and French from Wellesley College and an MA in International Economics from SAIS. She co-taught Microfinance and Development with Maria Otero, and will be teaching AY 2010-2011 with a new colleague, Melissa Lumpkin Baez.
Course: Microfinance and Development Section 2
Course Number: 400.759.02
Fall 2011 (Co-taught with Melissa Lumpkin Baez) Staff Katherine Diefenbach
Program Coordinator, International Development Program Katherine is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a double major in Economics and Foreign Affairs and a concentration in Middle Eastern Politics. Her studies also included a three year certification in leadership from the McIntire School of Commerce. Prior to joining SAIS, she worked for Alvarez & Associates for the International Demand Reduction Initiative led by the State Department. Her additional work experience includes international development, arts management, and youth leadership. Tina Evangelista
Program Assistant, International Development Program
Tina brings to SAIS a strong international background. Raised in Guinea Bissau, Tina pursued her education in Lisbon Portugal, where she earned a BA in International Politics. Tina's previous work experience includes government contracting for GSA, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) as well as work in the non-profit sector at Heifer International. Student Advisors and Spring 2012 Office Hours - William Douglas Tuesday 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Wednesday 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Thurs. 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
- Cinnamon Dornsife Wednesday 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. and Friday 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. (20 min meetings) or by request for other times - e-mail at cdornsife@jhu.edu
- Melissa Thomas Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.or by appointment
- Dorothy Sobol Wednesday 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
- Tanvi Nagpal Tuesday 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Wednesday 10:00 - 11:30 a.m
- Seth Colby
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