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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES Author biographies J. Brian Atwood [Editorial] J. Brian Atwood was unanimously elected Chair of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee in January 2011. From 1993 to 1999, during the administration of President William Clinton, Mr. Atwood served as Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Prior to this, he led the Transition Team at the State Department and was Under-Secretary of State for Management. During the administration of President Jimmy Carter, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations. In 1981-82, he was Dean of Professional Studies and Academic Affairs at the Foreign Service Institute. From 2002 until 2010, Mr. Atwood was Dean of the Hubert Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Other prior positions include President and Chief Executive Officer of Citizens International (1999-2002) and founding President of the National Democratic Institute of International Affairs (1985-93). In 2001, he served on United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Panel on Peace Operations. Mr. Atwood joined the Foreign Service in 1966 and served in the American Embassies in Ivory Coast and Spain. He served as legislative advisor for foreign and defense policy to Senator Thomas F. Eagleton (Democrat, Missouri) from 1972 to 1977. Mr. Atwood received the United States Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award in 1999 and the President’s Award for Outstanding Service from the University of Minnesota in 2011. Michel Camdessus [Chapter 7] Michel Camdessus was one of the longest serving Managing Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as well as an Honorary Governor of the Bank of France. He was educated at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris) and the National School of Administration (ENA). He joined the Treasury in the French Ministry of Finance in 1960, becoming director in February 1982. Between 1978 and 1984, Mr. Camdessus also served as Chairman of the Paris Club and was Chairman of the Monetary Committee of the European Economic Community between December 1982 and December 1984, before being appointed Governor of the Bank of France. He served in this capacity until his election in 1987 as Managing Director of the IMF, a position he held until 2000. He is currently a member of the Africa Progress Panel, chaired by Mr. Kofi Annan, and is a member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Water DEVELOPMENT CO-OPERATION REPORT 2012 © OECD 2012 7 AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES and Sanitation. He also chaired the World Panel on Financing Water Infrastructure (which produced the report: Financing Water for All in March 2003). Nick Chisholm [Chapter 8] Dr. Nick Chisholm is a Senior Lecturer in International Development in the Department of Food Business and Development at University College Cork, Ireland. He received his PhD, on the poverty-environment nexus in Ethiopia, from University College Dublin. He has worked in development as a practitioner, advisor and academic for 30 years, with a particular focus on socio-economic analysis applied to food and nutrition security and to poverty-environment issues. He has worked on long-term development contracts in Bangladesh and Ethiopia, in the latter case, working for the government of Ireland’s development co-operation programme when the watershed management projects described in Chapter 8 were developed. He was also Ireland’s representative on the DAC’s Environet between 2000 and 2005. More recently he co-authored the government of Ireland’s Hunger Task Force Report (2008), and is currently involved in a number of research projects addressing food and nutrition security. Lena Ek [Chapter 6] Lena Ek is Sweden’s Minister for the Environment, a position she has held since September 2011. She began her career as a Lecturer and law researcher at Lund University in Southern Sweden. As a member and representative of the Centre Party, she then became the Municipal Commissioner of her home town of Valdemarsvik in central Sweden. She was a Member of the Swedish Parliament between 1998 and 2005 and a Member of the European Parliament from 2005 to 2011. With her long- term engagement in Swedish politics and her assiduous commitment to sustainable development as a Member of the European Parliament, Lena Ek is well known in Swedish and European environmental circles. She lives with her husband and four children in Valdemarsvik. Michael Herrmann [Chapter 4] Michael Herrmann is an Economics Adviser with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and a Member of the United Nations Lead Economist’s Network. He is responsible for assessing the linkages between demographic and economic change, and for informing policy dialogues on development priorities and goals. His focus is on sustainable development, green and inclusive economic growth, and poverty; employment, social security and pension; as well as economic trends and prospects, sovereign and private debt, and macroeconomic policies. Previously, Mr. Herrmann worked with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development 8 DEVELOPMENT CO-OPERATION REPORT 2012 © OECD 2012 AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES (UNCTAD), where he co-authored the Trade and Development Report (2008-09) and Least Developed Countries Report (2000-08) and contributed to various issues of UNCTAD’s World Investment Report. He has lectured on economic policy and development and published on a range of issues, including the economics of population aging, international trade and finance, investment and technology, commodity markets and food security, and employment and poverty. Heikki Holmås [Chapter 9] Heikki Holmås is Minister of International Development, Norway. Mr. Holmås studied economics and business at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. He also studied economics at the University of Oslo and law at the University of Bergen. His career in politics began in 1996, when he became Chair of the Socialist Youth League of Norway for three years. He became a Member of the Norwegian Parliament for Oslo County in 2001, representing the Socialist Left Party. Between 2001 and 2005, he was a Member of the Norwegian Parliament’s Standing Committee on Local Government, followed by a four-year term on the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs. He has been Chair of the Standing Committee on Local Government and Public Administration since 2009. He was a Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation until his appointment as Minister of International Development in March 2012. Alice Akinyi Kaudia [Chapter 11] Alice Akinyi Kaudia is Environment Secretary in Kenya’s Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources. She holds a BSc in Agriculture from the University of Nairobi; she received a PhD in Forestry Extension and Development from the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom in 1996. Since then she has held a variety of positions, including East Africa Regional Director for the International Union for Conservation of Nature; Technical Advisor to the government of Zambia on revising their forestry curriculum; Assistant Director at the Kenya Forestry Research Institute; Associate Research Officer at the World Agroforestry Center; and Program Officer at the Africa Academy of Sciences. Dr. Kaudia’s current research and development focus is on environmental conservation, specialising in climate change, international environment governance, the green economy, gender, resource-use efficiency and youth empowerment. She is a board member of the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, on the Steering Committee of UNEP’s International Resource Panel, on the Advisory Committee of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform and one of the founding board members of the World Resources Forum and African Forest Forum. DEVELOPMENT CO-OPERATION REPORT 2012 © OECD 2012 9 AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES André Laperrière [Chapter 10] André Laperrière is Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). He was born in Canada, where he completed graduate studies in administration and in industrial relations. During his career, Mr. Laperrière has led or managed numerous large-scale development, privatisation, merger and structural reform projects on behalf of private corporations (including Price Waterhouse) and the United Nations. An expert in international development, he has extensive experience in Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East, in particular in developing countries and in conflict/post- conflict environments. Mr. Laperrière has held various senior management positions in the United Nations Common System, playing a major role in the design and the implementation of major reforms within a number of agencies. For example, he was the first Executive Director of the Trust Fund for Victims at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Director of the Administration and Finance Division in the World Health Organisation (WHO), and co-ordinator of all reconstruction and rehabilitation activities under the responsibility of UNICEF in Iraq. Ing Joe Oteng-Adjei [Chapter 9] Ing Dr. Joe Oteng-Adjei is Ghana’s Minister for Energy. He holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. He holds both a Masters and PhD from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, where he specialised in power system reliability and economics. He obtained a Masters in Business Administration from the United Kingdom’s Cranfield University