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PELIZZO-August 2019 RICCARDO PELIZZO PERSONAL DATA Email address: [email protected] EDUCATION: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, Baltimore, MD KRIEGER SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 2004 Ph.D. in Political Science. 2002 M.A. in Political Science. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (S.A.I.S.), BOLOGNA CENTER 1997 Graduate Diploma in International Studies, 1997. UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA 1995 Laurea in Filosofia (Master’s equivalent), 110 e lode (cum laude). PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: PUBLONS ACADEMY 2018, October 8: Academy Mentor 2018, August 21, Peer Reviewer UNITED KINGDOM HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY 2016 Professional Certificate in Academic Practice (PCAP) held in Astana May30-June2, September 5-8 and November 7-10. CITI TRAINING 2015 Social and Behavioral Research SMITHSONIAN X 2019 The Rise of Superheroes and their impact on Pop Culture, May 25. LEW KUAN YEW SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY 2015 Public Policy and Private Sector Development, Singapore, January 26-30. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, 2001 Certificate in Quantitative Methods, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 1997 Austrian Economics Seminar, New York, NY (USA). AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Political development, legislative strengthening, good governance, institutional and constitutional reforms. COUNTRY EXPERIENCE: Australia, Cote d’Ivoire, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda. 1 PELIZZO-August 2019 EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND Academic Positions Institution Period Vice-Dean for Research Graduate School of Public Policy 01/19-present Nazarbayev University Astana, Kazakhstan Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs Graduate School of Public Policy 12/15-06/17 Nazarbayev University Astana, Kazakhstan Associate Professor of Public Graduate School of Public Policy 07/14-08/18, Policy Nazarbayev University 01/19-present Astana, Kazakhstan Research Fellow/Senior Research Centre for Governance and Public Policy 03/07-04/11 Fellow/Senior Lecturer Griffith University Brisbane, QLD, Australia Assistant Professor School of Economics and Social Sciences 07/04-03/07 Singapore Management University Instructor Department of Political Science 01/03-12/03 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD, USA Other Academic Positions Visiting Professor University of Dar es Salaam March 2018 Visiting Professor Department of Politics and European May 2015 Studies, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic Professor of Practice Institute for the Study of International 01/14-07/14 Development, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Non-Academic Positions Institution Period Visiting Senior Research Fellow REPOA 03/14-04/14 Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania Senior Consultant/Research World Bank Institute 05/12-03/14 Advisor Visiting Fellow Habibie Center, Jakarta, Indonesia July 2009 Member of the Board of Directors Azienda Municipalizzata di Igiene 09/94-02/96 Ambientale (AMIA), Verona, Italy 2 PELIZZO-August 2019 ADMINISTRATIVE/COORDINATING POSITIONS: Acting Vice-Dean for Research, Graduate School of Public Policy, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, January 17, 2019-present. Member of GSPP Management Coordination Committee, Member of GSPP Hiring Committee, Member of GSPP Faculty Renewal Committee, Member of the Executive Education Committee, Chair of GSPP Research Committee, Chair of GSPP Student Trip committee; Chair of the Admission committee (MPA), co-Chair of the Teaching and Learning Committee; Member of NU Research Committee, Member of NU Research Council, Member of IEP Committee, Chair of IEP Sub-Committee. Acting Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs, Graduate School of Public Policy, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, December 14, 2015- June 30, 2017. Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan. Acting Dean (August 28-September 9, 2015; October 17-October 24, 2015; November 24-26, 2015; March 16-25, 2016; October 6-9, 2016; December 10-15, 2016; March 2-3, 2017; March 27-31, 2017; June 28, 2018-July 15, 2018). Member of the GSPP’s Management Coordination Committee, Executive Education Committee, Faculty Renewal and Promotion Committee, Admission Committee, Teaching and Learning Committee, Research Committee, School Hiring Committee. Member of the NU’s Allocations Committee, Research Council, Travel Committee, Academic Quality Committee, 2014-present. Consultant/Research Advisor, World Bank Institute. Served as resource person in several parliamentary training sessions organized by WBI; co-organized and co-facilitated seminars as part of WBI’s program to develop parliamentary performance indicators and benchmarks; designed and coordinated the worldwide administration survey questionnaires; facilitated WBI’s partnership with the Research Committee of Legislative Specialists, and organized an annual program to foster dialogue between parliamentary strengthening practitioners and scholars, 2012-2014. Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Brisbane QLD, Australia. Organized and coordinated two major international research projects respectively the impact of the War on terror on executive-legislative relations and on the quality of democracy in the Asia-Pacific region, 2007-2011. Assistant Professor, School of Economics and Social Sciences, Singapore Management University. Served on several faculty recruitment committees, on the student admission committee, on the capstone seminar committee and on the research excellent committee, 2004-2007. Member of the Boards of Directors, Azienda Municipalizzata di Igiene Ambientale (AMIA), 1994-1996. SHORT-TERM CONSULTANCY ASSIGNMENTS Consultant, information on legislative oversight and expert opinion on oversight bill to be enacted in Bosnia Herzegovina, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE/ODIHR), January 20-March 6, 2017. Expert Reviewer, National Center of Science and Technology Evaluation, Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan, 2014. Speaker, Conference of the state parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption, Panama City, Panama, November 2013; World Bank funded position. Resource Person, International Executive Programme for Parliamentary Staff, McGill University-National Institute for Legislative Studies (NILS), Abuja, Nigeria, November 2013; World Bank funded position. 3 PELIZZO-August 2019 Speaker, Annual Conference of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank & International Monetary Fund, Baku, Azerbaijan, May 2013, World Bank funded position. Resource Person, Joint Accountability Conference, eastern Africa Association of Public Accounts Committees (EAAPAC) Southern Africa Development Community Organization of Public Accounts Committees (SADCOPAC), Kampala, Uganda, May 2013; World Bank funded position. Speaker, GOPAC Fifth Global Conference, Manila, Philippines, January 2013; World Bank funded position. Resource Person, Study group on Public accounts committees in Francophone countries, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, December 2012. Resource person, Study Group on Public Accounts Committees, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association/World Bank Institute/Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Victoria, BC, Canada, November 2012. Resource Person, Building stronger legislatures, Legislative Sector Support, Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, East London, South Africa, October 2012. Resource Person, Holding the Executive to Account: An International Study group on Oversight and Accountability in Presidential and semi-Presidential Systems, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, September 2012. Resource Person, Public Financial Accountability Workshop, Lomè, Togo, June 2012. Resource Person, International Consultative Seminar, Legislative Sector Support, Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa, March 2012. Researcher, Strengthening Legislative Oversight Capacity, World Bank Institute, March 2009 to June 2009; World Bank funded position. Resource Person, Residential Summer Schools for Parliamentary Public Accounts Committees, Beechworth, Australia, 2008; World Bank funded position. Resource Person, International Conference “Democracy, Participation, and Accountability: Comparative Perspectives”, King Prajadipok’s Institute, Pattaya, Thailand, March 2007; World Bank funded position. Researcher, Strengthening Legislative Oversight Capacity, World Bank Institute, March 2006 to April 2006; World Bank funded position. Resource Person, Executive training on legislative ethics and codes of conduct, Jakarta, Indonesia, January 2006. Resource Person, Parliamentary Ethics Learning, Singapore, 2005; World Bank funded position. Resource Person, Parliamentary Staff Development Workshop for the Asia and South East Asia Regions, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2005. Rapporteur, Wilton Park Conference 748, Financing Politics, Curbing Corruption and Parliamentary Ethics, Wilton Park, UK, June 2004; World Bank funded position. Researcher, Strengthening Legislative Oversight Capacity, World Bank Institute, Washington DC, July 2002-August 2002; World Bank funded position. PATENTS Benedetti, Vittoria, Pelizzo, Riccardo and Federico Pelizzo, 2014, Kit per la determinazione della curva della sensibilita’ al contrasto di un individuo [Kit for determining and assessing monocular or binocular contrast sensitivity of a subject], IT Patent 1408135, WO2013046064-A1 filed September