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Irene Akua Agyepong Professor Agyepong was appointed as the seventh holder of the Prince Claus Chair by Utrecht University at Utrecht Medical Center’s Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care. She is a strong advocate of investing simultaneously in research into public health and the development of health policy. In her research, she has been concentrating on how to manage and transform health systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. She obtained her Doctorate in Public Health (DRPH) in 2000 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health. She is presently seconded full time by the Ghana Health Service to the University of Ghana School of Public Health. Her research interests are in Health Policy and Systems Research, and she has numerous publications in international peer-reviewed journals related to this area of work. Included among her current research and capacity building projects in this area of work is the NWO/WOTRO funded research project “Accelerating progress towards attainment of MDG4 & 5” being carried out in collaboration with the University of Utrecht and the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands. [email protected]

Patricia Almeida Ashley Professor Ashley was appointed as the eighth holder of the Prince Claus Chair by the Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam for her inter- disciplinary approach to Socially Responsible Entrepreneurship (SRE) and her knowledge of the relationship between SRE, development and equity in Latin America. In 2002, she obtained her PhD in Business Management (PUC-Rio, Brazil) in the area of Management of Change, developing a thesis on a dynamic and intercultural model for the analysis and design of corporate strategies on social responsibility. Currently, she is Associate Professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil. Her research interests focus on social responsibility, governance and sustainable development. She has authored and/or edited several books, chapters and articles on social responsibility, democratic governance, citizenship and education policies, in a context of sustainable development studies, applied to business, government, education institutions and civil society organizations in Brazil and abroad. Her most recent work, in collaboration with members of the International Policy and Research Network on Territories of Social Responsibility (INTSR), is a book entitled, co-edited with

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David Crowther, Territories of Social Responsibility: Opening the research and policy agenda (Gower Publishing Ltd, UK, 2012). [email protected]

Frans Bieckmann Frans Bieckmann is co-founder, executive director and editor in chief of The (Global Development Knowledge) Broker, an online platform that brings together cutting-edge knowledge and expert opinions from researchers, policymakers and practitioners in global development, human security, inclusive economy and social change. ‘Brokering’ between knowledge networks, The Broker functions as a ‘thinknet’ that provides new and integrated perspectives on current global policy issues. In August 2012, he published his most recent book Soedan—Het sinistere spel om macht, rijkdom en olie, a detailed analysis of the international involvement with Sudan and the conflict in Darfur. Bieckmann studied international relations at the University of Amsterdam, and has worked for 25 years as a journalist, researcher and advisor. He is a partner in the research bureau WiW- Global Research & Reporting, which specializes in international relations, globalization and development cooperation. In the book De wereld volgens Prins Claus (2004, 2011), he described the involvement of Prince Claus of the Netherlands with Africa and development cooperation.

Leo de Haan Leo de Haan is Rector of the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam and Professor of Development Studies. He is a member of the Curatorium of the Prince Claus Chair. ISS has co-hosted the Prince Claus Chair since its establishment. His current research interests are the developmental state and the conceptualization of rural and urban livelihoods; international and national migration patterns resulting in the multi- locality of livelihoods; and the multi-dimensionality of poverty in the Global South. His previous research focused on the commercialization of agriculture, environmental management, pastoral livelihoods and resource conflicts among peasants and pastoralists, with an emphasis on Africa. Leo de Haan is the former Director of the African Studies Centre (ASC), Leiden and Professor of Development in Sub-Sahara Africa at Leiden University. Before this, he was Professor of Development Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen and Director of the Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen (CIDIN). [email protected]

Ton Dietz Ton Dietz is a human geographer (PhD University of Amsterdam, 1987) who became professor in ‘geography, environment and development’ at the

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University of Amsterdam in 1995. In 2010 he became director of the African Studies Centre in Leiden and professor in African development at Leiden University. He is vice chair of the Curatorium of the Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity. He was the co-initiator of the World Connectors, the Broker, and the Development Policy Review network. He has held a vari- ety of functions in WOTRO Research for Development. Between 2002 and 2007 he was the scientific director of CERES, the research school for resource studies for development in the Netherlands. Currently he is a member of the Knowledge Platform for Development Strategies of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His research interests are participatory assessment of development and change, dryland development, agricultural and livestock dynam- ics, conflict and cooperation on natural resources, impact of climate change, identity politics and the changing connections of Africa with the world. He has written many books, articles, reports and web-based communications. [email protected]

Dick Foeken Dick Foeken holds a PhD (1991) in Political Geography. Since 1987, he has been a senior researcher at the African Studies Centre in Leiden, The Netherlands. His main interests are urban poverty, urban agriculture and urban water supply, mainly in Kenya. He has (co-)written six monographs and co-edited five vol- umes. He has also published in such journals as Geoforum, GeoJournal, Ecology of Food and Nutrition, The Journal of Peasant Studies, Habitat International, Political Geography, Journal of Modern African Studies, Urban Studies and Gender, Place and Culture. [email protected]

Annemarie Groot Kormelinck Annemarie Groot Kormelinck is a development sociologist by profession and is currently working as an advisor in rural economic development for the Centre for Development Innovation of Wageningen University and Research Center. Her MSc thesis was on the topic of the relationship between gender bargaining relations and institutional trust in agricultural cooperatives. [email protected]

Rema Hammami Professor Rema Hammami was appointed as the fourth holder of the Prince Claus Chair by the International Institute of Social Studies because of her impressive academic contribution and as an intellectual champion of peace and co-existence in the struggle for Palestinian independence in the occupied

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Lisanne Heemskerk Lisanne Heemskerk graduated in 2012 with an MSc in International Develop- ment Studies from the University of Utrecht, with a specialization in corporate social responsibility and sustainable development. She has carried out research on the social, economic and environmental responsibilities of Dutch enterprises operational in the Kenyan agribusiness. She is currently working as a junior consultant at the sustainable business development unit at Triodos Facet. [email protected]

Alcinda Honwana Professor Honwana was appointed as the sixth holder of the Prince Claus Chair by the International Institute of Social Studies. She is an authority on child soldiers and on the predicament of youth in the context of socio-economic crisis and ongoing globalisation processes in Africa. Currently, she is a visiting professor in Anthropology and International Development at the Open University. She completed her PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of London (SOAS) in 1996. Her research interests cover issues such as: political conflict and its impact on children, youth and women; youth activism, participatory citizenship and involvement in processes of social change. Her latest books include Youth and Revolution in Tunisia (2013, Zed Books); The Time of Youth: Work, Politics and Social Change (2012, Kumarian Press); Child Soldiers in Africa (2006, University of Pennsylvania Press); and Makers & Breakers: Children and Youth in Postcolonial Africa (2005, James Currey Publishers). [email protected]

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Nasira Jabeen Professor Nasira Jabeen was appointed as the fifth holder of the Prince Claus Chair by the Utrecht School of Governance of Utrecht University. Coming from a Pakistani background, her research interests include governance, public management, gender, human resource management, and organiza- tional change and development. She is Professor of Public Administration, Director of the Institute of Administrative Sciences at Punjab University, Lahore, as well as Director of the Human Resources Development Centre of the University of Punjab. She has a wide experience of working as Human Resource Development Consultant with international development organizations, such as UNICEF, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the World Bank, the Governance Institutions Network International (GINI), the British Council and the Ministry of Education. She has published her research work in various international and national journals. [email protected]

Linda Johnson Linda Johnson has been executive secretary of ISS and secretary to the Curatorium of the Prince Claus Chair since 2010. She has been involved in the internationalisation of Higher Education since 1988. Before joining the ISS staff she worked for a number of Dutch institutions of Higher Education and latterly for the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW). She is a former president of the EAIE (European Assocation of International Education) and speaks and writes regularly on matters pertaining to international education. She was educated in the UK and has also worked in Germany and Nigeria. She currently serves on the publications committee of the EAIE, the Fulbright social sciences selection committee and is series editor for the EAIE occasional papers series on International Education. [email protected]

Atul Kumar Professor Atul Kumar was appointed as the ninth holder of the Prince Claus Chair by Utrecht University. He is of Indian descent. His research focuses on climate change, energy policy, energy technology system analysis and how a sustainable lifestyle can combat climate change. He is currently Fellow & Area Convenor, Modelling & Scenario Building, The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi, India. He is the author of six books and many articles in peer- reviewed journals such as Energy Strategy Reviews, Energy Policy, European

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Review of Energy Markets, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, World Affairs, International Journal of Sustainable Energy and Energy Sources. His latest books are Sub-national actions on climate change in India and implications for international collaboration (The Energy and Resources Institute, 2011) and Growth, sustainable development and climate change: Friends or foes? (Utrecht University, 2011). [email protected]

Amina Mama Professor Mama was appointed as the second holder of the Prince Claus Chair by the International Institute of Social Studies. She was appointed for her contribution to the academic field of African culture and its relationship to development. She is currently Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of California, Davis. Her academic fields are feminism, militarism, critical development studies, social movements and transformations. She is Editor of Feminist Africa. Recent publications include ‘Militarism, conflict and women’s activism: Challenges and prospects for women in three West African countries’ (Feminist Review, 2011) and ‘What does it mean to do feminist research in African contexts?’ (Feminist Review, 2010). She is currently involved in a film project ‘The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo’ (forthcoming, 2014). [email protected]

Syed Mansoob Murshed Professor Murshed, an economist from Bangladesh, was appointed by Utrecht University as the first holder of the Prince Claus Chair. He was appointed for his academic work in the fields of international economics, political economy and the relation of conflict to economic development. Professor Murshed’s recent research concerns the economics of conflict and natural resource management. He is currently Professor of the Economics of Peace and Conflict at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University in the Netherlands and is also Professor of Economics at Coventry University in the UK. He was a Research Fellow at UNU/WIDER in Helsinki where he ran projects on ‘Globalization and Vulnerable Economies’ and ‘Why Some Countries Avoid Conflict, While Others Fail’. He is the author of seven books and over 130 refereed journal papers and book chapters. His latest book, published in 2010, is Explaining Civil War (Edward Elgar). He is on the Editorial boards of Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy (PEPS), as well as Civil Wars. His research interests are in the economics of conflict, resource abundance, aid conditionality, political economy, macroeconomics and international economics. [email protected]

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Stella Quimbo Professor Stella Quimbo was appointed as the tenth holder of the Prince Claus Chair by the Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. After spending a year as a post-doctoral fellow at Brown University in the US (Providence, Rhode Island) in 2002, she took up her current position as professor at the School of Economics of the University of the Philippines. Stella Quimbo has published widely on topics such as insurance design, provider incentives, equitable access to health care and health care demand, as well as child nutrition and cognitive development. [email protected]

Gaspar Rivera-Salgado Professor Rivera-Salgado is a sociologist from Mexico. He was appointed as the third holder of the Prince Claus Chair at Utrecht University’s Netherlands Institute of Human Rights and School of Human Rights Research on the basis of his academic work in the field of indigenous rights, particularly in Latin America and the United States. He received his doctorate in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is currently Project Director at UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education where he teaches classes on Work, Labor and Social Justice in the US and immigration issues. He also directs the Institute for Transnational Social Change. He currently serves as an advisor to several migrant organizations in California, including the Binational Center for Oaxacan Indigenous Development, the Coalition for Humane Human Rights of Los Angeles, and the Binational Front of Indigenous Organizations. He has extensive experience as an independent consultant on transnational migration, race and ethnic relations and diversity trainings for large organizations. Among his most recent publications include the volume (with J. Fox) Indigenous Mexican Migration in the United States (University of California, San Diego, 2005) and the recently published volume (with E. Telles, and M. Sawyer) Just Neighbors?: Research on African American and Latino Relations in the United States (Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2011). [email protected]

Nienke van der Have Nienke van der Have obtained her LL.M cum laude at the University of Amsterdam. She currently holds a PhD position at the same university and conducts research into the international legal framework for the prevention of gross human rights violations. [email protected]

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