WHY GOVERN?: The Strategic, Functional and Normative Logics of Global Governance

Butler Boardroom, American University

October 4-5, 2013

Presenter Bios

Amitav Acharya is Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service, American

University, Washington, DC. He has previously taught at universities in Canada (York), UK (Bristol),

Singapore (National University and Nanyang). He was Fellow of the Asia Center, Harvard University,

and Fellow of the Center for Business and Government at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of

Government.Professor Acharya has been appointed to visiting professorships and fellowships at

universities in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa Thailand and UK. These include the Lee

Kuan Yew School for Public Policy, Singapore, Nuffield College, Oxford, and Queen Elizabeth House,

Oxford. He holds (2012-13) the Nelson Mandela Visiting Professorship in International Relations at

Rhodes University, South Africa. He has given numerous public and academic lectures at universities

such as Delhi, Oxford, Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Sydney, Waseda (Tokyo),

Hebrew University (Jerusalem), China Foreign Affairs University (Beijing), Korea University (Seoul),

Fudan University (Shanghai), Pretoria, Free University (Berlin), and Science Po (Paris). He has been a

keynote speaker at international conferences in Stockholm, Bordeaux, Munich, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta,

Singapore, London, New York, Washington, D.C. Pretoria, and Tokyo. On 14th April 2011, at the

invitation of its President, he addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York on the subject

of human security. Professor Acharya’s publications cover both academic and public affairs topics and

number over 25 books (including nine self-authored) and 200 journal and magazine articles. His books

include: The Quest for Identity: International Relations of Southeast Asia (Oxford 2000); Constructing a

Security Community in Southeast Asia (Routledge 2001, 2nd ed. 2009); Asia Rising: Who is Leading

(Singapore and London: Word Scientific, 2007), The Age of Fear (Singapore and London: Marshall

Cavendish, New Delhi, Rupa), and The Making of Southeast Asia: International Relations of a Region

(Cornell University Press and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012). His 2009 book, Whose Ideas

Matter: Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism (Cornell, 2009) was among five books selected by the

Asia Society of New York for their “exceptional contributions to the understanding of contemporary Asia

or US-Asia relations” for its Bernard Schwartz Book Award). His essays have been published in the

world’s top academic and policy journals such as International Organization, International Security,

International Studies Quarterly, World Politics, Foreign Affairs, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of

Asian Studies, Survival, and Washington Quarterly. He is the co-chief editor of the Studies in Asian

Security series for Stanford University Press, widely regarded as the best book series in the field of Asian

security. A regular commentator in the world’s media, he has appeared on BBC TV, CNN, BBC World

Service Radio, Al-Jazeera TV, CNBC TV, CTV (Canada) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio,

Radio Australia, Channel News Asia TV, and Thai PBS TV. He has been a consultant to the World

Bank, Asian Development Bank, UNESCO and a host of national development agencies on issues related

to development, security and cooperation. He served on the Global Defence Advisory Committee of

Finmeccanica, one of the world’s top ten companies in aerospace, defence and security. Prof Acharya has

written numerous op-eds for international newspapers and magazines including Financial Times,

International Herald Tribune, National Public Radio (NPR) online, Huffington Post, Australian Financial

Review,Asia Times, Times of India, Indian Express, Straits Times, Jakarta Post, Bangkok Post,

Asiaweek, Far Eastern Economic Review, Japan Times, South China Morning Post, YaleGlobal

Onlinecovering such topics as international and Asian security, the war on terror, and the rise of China

and India. On 5th December 2012, Prof Acharya was elected to be the 54th President of the International

Studies Association (ISA), “the most well respected and widely known scholarly association” in the field

of international studies worldwide." Prof Acharya was born in India and was educated in both India and

Australia. He lived and worked in Singapore for 12 years and is regarded as one of the world’s top

specialists on Southeast Asia and Asian affairs. He is a regular visitor to Southeast Asia, China and other

East Asian countries. He is married to Ying Dai, who was born in Guangzhou, China. They and their son

live in Bethesda, Maryland.

Eamon Aloyo is a research associate at the One Earth Future Foundation. He specializes in global

governance, the responsibility to protect (R2P), just war theory, human rights, and international criminal

law. His work will appear in International Theory, Global Constitutionalism, Global Society, a volume

edited by Rodney Bruce Hall, among other outlets. Eamon graduated in 2011 with a Ph.D. in political

science from the University of Colorado at Boulder where he won the Thomas Jefferson Award, one of

the most prestigious awards the university bestows.

Hakan Altinay is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he works on issues of

enhanced global cooperation and related normative frameworks. He lectures on global governance and

global civics at leading universities around the world. His book, Global Civics: Responsibilities and

Rights in an Interdependent World, was published in 2011, and has been translated into Arabic, Chinese

and Spanish. He was the founding Executive Director, and later the Chairman, of the Open Society

Institute/Foundation in Turkey. He is a global ethics fellow at the Carnegie Council, and a world fellow at

Yale University.

Alexander Betts is University Lecturer in Refugee Studies and Forced Migration at the University of

Oxford. His research focuses on the international politics of refugees, migration, and humanitarianism,

with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. His recent books include Protection by Persuasion: International

Cooperation in the Refugee Regime (Cornell University Press 2009), Refugees in International Relations

(with Gil Loescher, Oxford University Press 2010), Global Migration Governance (Oxford University

Press 2011), and Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement (Cornell

University Press 2013). He has worked as a consultant to UNHCR, OCHA, UNDP, IOM, UNICEF, and

the Council of Europe, and received research grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the Leverhulme

Trust, and the Economic and Social Research Council. He has also held teaching and research positions at

Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin. He is Director of the Humanitarian Innovation

Project

Derrick L. Cogburn is Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American

University, and Executive Director of COTELCO: The Collaboration Laboratory and its Institute on

Disability and Public Policy. He is editor of the Palgrave Macmillan book series Information Technology

and Global Governance, and serves on editorial boards for Journal of Information Technology and

Politics, Review of Policy Research, and Journal of Political Science Education. He is Chair of the

Review Panel for the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Diplomacy, Security,

and Development, Science Technology Policy Fellowships. He is also a member of the High-Level Panel

of Advisors for the UN Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and

Development. Dr. Cogburn has been Principle Investigator on grants from the National Science

Foundation and the Committee of Visitors for the Office of Cyberinfrastructure. At Syracuse University,

he was faculty in the School of Information Studies and Senior Research Associate in the Moynihan

Institute at the Maxwell School. He is past president of the Information, Technology, and Politics section

of the American Political Science Association and of the International Communication section of the

International Studies Association. He served as Executive Director of the Global Information

Infrastructure Commission-Africa and Vice Chair of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network.

He holds a PhD in political science from Howard University, where he was a W.K. Kellogg doctoral

fellow at the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center.

Daniel H. Deudney teaches political science, international relations and political theory at Johns Hopkins

University. He holds a BA in political science and philosophy from Yale University, a MPA in science,

technology, and public policy from George Washington University, and a PhD in political science from

Princeton University. During the late 1970s he served as senior legislative assistant for energy and

environment, and legislative director, to Senator John Durkin (D-NH). During the early 1980s he was a

Senior Researcher at the Worldwatch Institute in Washington D.C. During 2010-11 he was senior

research fellow at the TransAtlantic Academy at the German Marshall Fund in Washington D.C. His

areas of research are general international relations theory, international political theory, and

contemporary global issues (nuclear, outer space, environment, and energy). His publications include

RENEWABLE ENERGY (Norton, 1983), co-author; and CONTESTED GROUNDS: Conflict and

Security in the New Global Environmental Politics (SUNY, 1998), co-editor. He has also published

extensively, often with John Ikenberry, on the end of the Cold War and on the Liberal International Order.

His most recent book is BOUNDING POWER: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global

Village (Princeton University Press, 2007), which was co-winner of the Jervis-Schroeder Prize for the

best book in international politics and history by the American Political Science Association, and was co-

winner of the Book of the Decade award from the International Studies Association. His current book

projects are EARTH & SPACE: Space Expansion and Planetary Geopolitics; and PAX ATOMICA:

Planetary Geopolitics, Arms Control and Limited Government. In over twenty years of teaching he has

received four major teaching awards, most recently the Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award at Johns

Hopkins University.

David P. Fidler is the James Louis Calamaras Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School

of Law and an Associate Fellow with the Chatham House Centre for Global Health Security. He is one of

the world’s leading experts on international relations and global health, including the relationship between

health and global governance. He is a member of the Roster of Experts for the WHO’s International

Health Regulations (2005) and has extensive experience working as a consultant with government

agencies, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations on global health issues. Recent

publications include: “Who Owns MERS? The Intellectual Property Controversy Surrounding the Latest

Pandemic,” Foreign Affairs(Online), June 7, 2013; “Criminal Law and Global Health Governance,”

in Criminal Law, Philosophy, and Public Health Practice (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013) at 237-60;

“Health Diplomacy,” in Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (Oxford Univ. Press, 2013), at 691-707;

“Asia and Global Health Governance: Power, Principles, and Practice,” in Asia’s Role in Governing

Global Health (Routledge, 2012), at 198-214. His books include Biosecurity in the Global Age: Public

Health, Biological Weapons, and the Rule of Law (Stanford Univ. Press, 2008) (with L. O. Gostin).

Eric Helleiner is Faculty of Arts Chair in International Political Economy in the Department of Political

Science at the University of Waterloo and Balsillie School of International Affairs. He has published

widely on issues relating to international money and finance, and has two forthcoming books Forgotten

Foundations of Bretton Woods: International Development and the Making of the Postwar World

(Cornell University Press, forthcoming) and The Status Quo Crisis: Global Financial Governance after

the 2008 Meltdown (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). He was a member of the Warwick

Commission on International Financial Reform (2009) and the High Level Panel on the Governance of

the Financial Stability Board (2011), and has been a Canada Research Chair, a Trudeau Foundation

Fellow and is presently co-editor of the book series Cornell Studies in Money.

Sikina Jinnah is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at American University’s School of

International Service (SIS). Her research focuses on the changing dynamics of power and influence in

global environmental politics. Her most recent project examined the role of international bureaucracies in

managing the politics of overlapping international regimes in the areas of biodiversity, climate change,

and international trade. Prior to coming to SIS she was a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University’s

Watson Institute for International Studies, and completed her PhD in Environmental Science, Policy, and

Management at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Jinnah is also a consultant for the International

Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), where she covers CITES and UNFCCC processes for

IISD's Earth Negotiations Bulletin. Her recent work has been published in Global Environmental Politics,

the Journal of Environment and Development, Berkeley Journal of International Law Publicist,

Environmental Research Letters, and Science.

Miles Kahler is Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations and Distinguished Professor of Political

Science at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) and the Political Science

Department, University of California, San Diego. Kahler was Founding Director of the Institute for

International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) at UCSD. He has been a Fellow at the Woodrow

Wilson International Center for Scholars (2012-2013) and the Center for Advanced Study in the

Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (2007-2008). He was a Senior Fellow at the Council on

Foreign Relations in New York (1994-1996). Recent publications include Integrating Regions: Asia in

Comparative Context (co-editor, Stanford University Press, 2013), Politics in the New Hard Times (co-

editor and contributor, Cornell University Press, 2013), and “Rising Powers and Global

Governance: Negotiating Change in a Resilient Status Quo,” (International Affairs, 2013).

Andrew Mack is the Director of the Human Security Report Project (HSRP) at Simon Fraser University

and a faculty member of the university’s new School for International Studies. Prior to this he directed the

Human Security Centre at the University of British Columbia where the HSRP was located until its move

to Simon Fraser in May 2007. Immediately before joining UBC, Professor Mack was a Visiting Professor

at the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard (2001-02). From 1998 to 2001

he was Director of the Strategic Planning Office in the Executive Office of UN Secretary-General Kofi

Annan. Professor Mack held the Chair in International Relations at the Institute of Advanced Study at the

Australian National University (ANU) from 1991 to 1998, was Director of the ANU’s Peace Research

Centre (1985-91), and was Senior Research Fellow in the ANU’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre

(1984-85). He has also held research and teaching positions at Flinders University (Adelaide, Australia);

the London School of Economics; the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute; the Richardson Institute for

Peace and Conflict Research in London; the University of California at Berkeley, Irvine and San Diego;

the University of Hawaii and the East-West Center; Fudan University in Shanghai; the International

University of Japan; and the University of Auckland. His pre-academic career included six years in the

Royal Air Force (as an engineer and pilot); two and a half years in Antarctica as a meteorologist and

deputy base commander; a year as a diamond prospector in Sierra Leone; and two years with the BBC’s

World Service writing and broadcasting news commentaries and producing the current affairs program,

The World Today. Professor Mack has written and edited some 16 monographs and books and his 60-

plus scholarly articles have appeared in a wide range of journals, including: World Politics, The

Washington Quarterly, British Journal of International Studies, World Policy, Foreign Policy,

Comparative Politics, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Politics, Security

Dialogue, Arms Control, Asian Survey, Australian Journal of International Affairs and the Pacific

Review. He has also published widely in the mainstream print media, including the International Herald

Tribune, Washington Post, Economist, Guardian, Le Monde diplomatique, Newsday, Yomiuri Shimbun,

Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, Corriere Della Sierra, Far Eastern Economic

Review, The Japan Times, New Scientist, Korea Herald, Haaretz, Bulletin, New Zealand Herald, Bulletin

of the Atomic Scientists, Christian Science Monitor, Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, The Nation, and the

South China Morning Post. Professor Mack has received research grants from the MacArthur, Ford, W.

Alton Jones and Rockefeller Foundations; the United Nations University; the Social Science Research

Council (UK); the International Development Research Center; and the governments of Australia,

Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada and the UK.

Susan K. Sell is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington

University. She earned her PhD from UC Berkeley. She has published three books on the politics

of intellectual property, and co-edited Who Governs the Globe? She has published numerous

articles and book chapters on political economy and global governance. She served as Director

of the Institute for Global and International Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs

from 2007-2012. She was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 2012-2013. She serves on the board of

Intellectual Property Watch (www.ip-watch.org), and serves on the editorial boards of

International Studies Quarterly, the Review of International Political Economy, European

Journal of International Relations, and Global Governance.

Kathryn Sikkink is Regents Professor and the McKnight Presidential Chair in Political Science

at the University of Minnesota. Beginning in January 2013, she will be the Ryan Family

Professor of Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Her publications include The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions are Changing

World Politics (awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Center Book Award, and the WOLA/Duke

University Award); Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America; Activists

Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (co-authored with Margaret Keck

and awarded the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas for Improving World Order, and the ISA

Chadwick Alger Award for Best Book in the area of International Organizations); and The

Power of Human Rights: International Norms and Domestic Change (co-edited with Thomas

Risse and Stephen Ropp). Sikkink has been a Fulbright Scholar in Argentina and a Guggenheim

fellow. She is a fellow of the American Philosophical Society, the American Association for Arts

and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the editorial board of the

International Studies Quarterly, International Organization, and the American Political Science

Review.

Ramesh Thakur is Director of the Centre for Nuclear No-Proliferation and Disarmament, Crawford

School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. He was Vice Rector and Senior Vice Rector

of the United Nations University (and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations) from 1998–

2007. Educated in India and Canada, he was a Professor of International Relations at the University of

Otago in New Zealand and Professor and Head of the Peace Research Centre at the Australian National

University, during which time he was also a consultant/adviser to the Australian and New Zealand

governments on arms control, disarmament and international security issues. Prof. Thakur was a

Commissioner and one of the principal authors of The Responsibility to Protect (2001), and Senior

Adviser on Reforms and Principal Writer of the United Nations Secretary-General’s second reform report

(2002). He was a Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo (2007–11), Distinguished

Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (2007–10) and Foundation Director of the

Balsillie School of International affairs in Waterloo, Ontario. The author or editor of over 40 books and

400 articles and book chapters, Prof. Thakur also serves on the international advisory boards of institutes

in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. His recent books include The United Nations, Peace and

Security: From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect (Cambridge University Press), Global

Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey (Indiana University Press), The Responsibility to

Protect: Norms, Laws and the Use of Force in International Politics (Routledge), The Group of Twenty

(G20) (Routledge), and The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (Oxford University Press).

Chair Bios

Marcel Arsenault is One Earth Future’s Chairman and Founder. He provides the driving vision

for the foundation and ensures that OEF continues to move in the appropriate direction. Together

with his wife, Cynda, Marcel founded two other foundations during the past decade: a grant

making foundation established to support peace through governance, and the Secure World

Foundation, an operating foundation dedicated to the secure and sustainable use of space. In

addition to his philanthropic work, as the Chairman, CEO, and founder of Real Capital Solutions

(formerly Colorado & Santa Fe Real Estate), Marcel is one of the largest and most active owners

of commercial real estate in Colorado. His academic accomplishments include a BS degree from

McGill University in Canada and four years toward a PhD in molecular biology from the

University of Colorado. Additionally, Marcel has authored several papers on real estate and co-

authored one book, Foundations of Wealth: How to Build a Real Estate Empire, in which he

describes the paths he took in creating a self-sustaining real estate empire.

Daniel Bernhofen joined the SIS faculty in the Fall of 2013. Prior to moving to Washington, he was

Professor of International Economics and Director of the Globalisation and Economic Policy Research

Centre at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on the theoretical, empirical and

historical aspects of international trade and his research has been funded by the the National Science

Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

He is best known for exploiting the 19th century opening up of Japan as a natural experiment to provide

rigorous tests of general equilibrium trade theory. His current research project on quantifying the impact

of the container revolution on world trade has been discussed in media outlets such as The Economist and

Foreign Policy. Dr. Bernhofen earned his PhD in Economics from the Maxwell School at Syracuse

University, his MS in Mathematics from Syracuse University and his Diplom Wirtschafsmathematik at

University of Ulm (Germany).

James Goldgeier is the Dean of the School of International Service at American University. Prior to

joining American University, he was a professor of political science and international affairs at George

Washington University. He taught previously at Cornell University, and has held appointments at

Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, the State Department, the

National Security Council staff, the Brookings Institution, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Library

of Congress, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Hoover Institution, and the German Marshall Fund’s

Transatlantic Academy. From 2001-2005, he directed GWU’s Institute for European, Russian and

Eurasian Studies. His most recent book is America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11 (co-authored

with Derek Chollet), named “a best book of 2008” by Slate and “a favorite book of 2008” by The Daily

Beast. Dean Goldgeier’s areas of expertise include contemporary international relations, American

foreign policy, and transatlantic security.

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson is currently Professor of International Relations and Associate Dean for

Undergraduate Education in the School of International Service. He previously taught at Columbia

University and New York University. In 2003-4, he served as President of the International Studies

Association-Northeast; in 2012-2013, he did so again. He was formerly Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of

International Relations and Development, was a founding member of the IR blog The Duck of Minerva,

and is currently Series Editor of the University of Michigan Press' book series Configurations: Critical

Studies of World Politics and web editor for International Studies Quarterly. His 2011 book The Conduct

of Inquiry in International Relations received the Yale Ferguson Award for the book most advancing the

vibrancy of international studies as a pluralist field. He was recently named the 2012 U.S. Professor of the

Year for the District of Columbia by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of

Teaching. Jackson's research interests include culture and agency, international relations theory

(particularly the intersection of realism and constructivism), scientific methodology, the role of rhetoric in

public life, civilizations in world politics, the sociology of academic knowledge, popular culture and IR,

and the formation of subjectivity both in the classroom and in the broader social sphere.

Conor Seyle is a political psychologist and holds a PhD in social psychology from the University of

Texas. He plans and directs the activities of the research department along with conducting his own

research, which focuses on questions of what predicts and what resolves political conflict including the

role of identity and self-concept in driving political conflict; the predictors of successful deliberative

discussion of political issues; and predictors of successful interventions in communities affected by

natural disasters or war. Before coming to OEF, Conor worked as a researcher for NGOs including the

Charles F. Kettering Foundation, Issues Deliberation Australia/America, and Psychology Beyond

Borders. He has also worked on deliberative democracy initiatives including the National Issues Forums

and Americans Discuss Social Security, and is a FEMA-approved trainer for the Crisis Counseling

Program (the US governmental response to disaster-impacts or traumas).

Judith Shapiro was one of the first Americans to live and teach in China after the Cultural Revolution,

and she has been deeply involved with the country ever since. Her many books include Son of the

Revolution (Knopf, 1983, co-authored with Liang Heng), Mao's War against Nature (Cambridge

University, 2001), and China's Environmental Challenges (Polity, 2012). She directs the Natural

Resources and Sustainable Development MA Program at American University's School of International

Service in Washington, D.C. She can be reached via her website, www.judithshapiro.com.

Discussant Bios

Boaz Atzili is an Assistant Professor at the School of International Service of American University in

Washington DC. Before coming to American University he also taught at Boston University, Tufts

University, and Bentley College. He holds a PhD in Political Science from MIT and a BA from the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After earning his PhD Atzili was a postdoctoral fellow at the Belfer

Center for Science and International Affairs in John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard

University, (2006-8). His research interests are in the general area of international security, with emphasis

on territorial conflicts and the politics of borders, military doctrines, and the international aspects of state

weakness and state failure. Dr. Atzili’s book, Good Fences, Bad Neighbors: Border Fixity and

International Conflict (University of Chicago Press, 2012) is based on his dissertation that has won the

American Political Science Association’s Kenneth N. Waltz prize for the best 2006 dissertation in the

area of security studies Dr. Atzili has published articles in journals such as International Security,

Security Studies, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Harvard International Review, and SAIS Review of

International Affairs.

Aaron P. Boesenecker joined the SIS faculty in the fall of 2009 and is an Assistant Professor in the

International Politics Program. His research interests include European politics, comparative political

economy, religion and politics, and qualitative methods. His current research focuses on social policy

development and reform in Europe and the United States. He is also engaged in an ongoing collaborative

research project concerning the role of religion in post-conflict societies. Dr. Boesenecker has received

funding for his research from the American Consortium for European Union Studies, the Max-Planck

Society (Germany), and Georgetown University. Prior to coming to AU, Dr. Boesenecker taught at

Georgetown University. Prior to returning to academic life, he worked in the field of community

planning and development for a mid-sized Midwestern town.

David Bosco, assistant professor of International Politics, is a past Fulbright Scholar and senior editor at

Foreign Policy magazine. Formerly an attorney at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, he focused on

international arbitration, litigation, and antitrust matters. He also served as a political analyst and

journalist in Bosnia and Herzegovina and as deputy director of a joint United Nations/NATO project on

repatriating refugees in Sarajevo. He is author of Five to Rule Them All (Oxford University Press, 2009),

a history of the UN Security Council. He is currently researching a book on the International Criminal

Court and writes the Multilateralist blog for Foreign Policy magazine.

Daniel Esser is Assistant Professor of International Development at American University in Washington,

DC. His research examines violence, governance and aid effectiveness and focuses on cities and global

health policy. He also pursues an interest in discourses and Pragmatism in international development. He

has published in leading academic journals such as World Development, Global Public Health, the

Journal of Social Policy, the Journal of Modern African Studies, Third World Quarterly and Environment

and Urbanization, inter alia. Dr. Esser was an Academic Resident at the Rockefeller Foundation’s

Bellagio Center in Italy earlier this year, a Postdoctoral Fellow on Drugs, Security and Democracy (DSD)

of the Social Science Research Council in 2012-13, a SPURS Research Fellow at MIT in 2003-04 and a

Carlo Schmid Fellow in the International Labour Office in 2001-02. In 2006-08, he spent two years

working for the United Nations in Bangkok and New York. He has received research grants from

Canada’s International Development Research Centre, the British Economic and Social Research

Council, the Mellon-MIT Program on NGOs and Forced Migration, the German National Academic

Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service.

Elizabeth Ferris is senior fellow in Foreign Policy and co-director of the Brookings-LSE Project on

Internal Displacement in Washington, D.C., where her work encompasses a wide range of issues related

to internal displacement, humanitarian action, natural disasters and climate change. Prior to joining

Brookings in November 2006, Dr. Ferris spent 20 years working in the field of humanitarian assistance,

most recently in Geneva, Switzerland at the World Council of Churches. There she was responsible for

the Council’s work in humanitarian response and long-term development. In this capacity, she worked

with many local, national and international non-governmental organizations to support capacity building

and to advocate for protection of refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and other populations

affected by conflict. She has also served as the director of the Church World Service’s Immigration and

Refugee Program, the Research Director for the Life & Peace Institute in Uppsala, Sweden and a

Fulbright Professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her teaching experience has

included positions at Lafayette College, Miami University, and Pembroke State University. Her articles

have appeared in Refugee Survey Quarterly, Forced Migration Review, Journal of Refugee Studies, The

Washington Post, The Washington Times, the International Review of the Red Cross and Red Crescent

Societies and many others. Her most recent book, The Politics of Protection: The Limits of Humanitarian

Action, was published by Brookings Institution Press in April 2011. She was educated at Duke University

(B.A., ’71) and the University of Florida (M.A. ’72, PhD. ’76).

Tamar Gutner is currently Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Graduate Education. Her

research and teaching interests include international organizations, global environmental politics,

and international political economy. Her research focuses on the performance and effectiveness

of international organizations, particularly international financial institutions. She is the author of

Banking on the Environment: Multilateral Development Banks and Their Performance in

Central and Eastern Europe (MIT Press, 2002), and is currently writing International

Organizations and Global Governance (CQ Press). Her scholarly articles have appeared in

journals such as International Organization, Review of International Organizations, and Global

Environmental Politics.

Randall Henning specializes in the politics and institutions of international economic relations,

international and comparative political economy, economic policymaking and regional integration. He

has focused specifically on international monetary policy, European monetary integration,

macroeconomic policy coordination, G20 summits and East Asian regionalism. Currently, he is

conducting a project on the relationship between regionalism and multilateralism and political economy

of the euro crisis.

Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Reginald Jones Senior Fellow since 1992, was formerly the Maurice Greenberg

Chair and Director of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (1996–98), the Marcus Wallenberg

Professor of International Finance Diplomacy at Georgetown University (1985–92), senior fellow at the

Institute (1981–85), deputy director of the International Law Institute at Georgetown University (1979–

81); deputy assistant secretary for international trade and investment policy of the US Treasury (1977–

79); and director of the international tax staff at the Treasury (1974–76). Hufbauer has written extensively

on international trade, investment, and tax issues. He is coauthor of Local Content Requirements: A

Global Problem (2013), Outward Foreign Direct Investment and US Exports, Jobs, and R&D:

Implications for US Policy (2013), The United States Should Establish Permanent Normal Trade

Relations with Russia (2012), Figuring Out the Doha Round (2010), Global Warming and the World

Trading System (2009), Economic Sanctions Reconsidered, 3rd edition (2007), US Taxation of Foreign

Income (2007), Toward a US-Indonesia Free Trade Agreement (2007), US-China Trade Disputes: Rising

Tide, Rising Stakes (2006), The Shape of a Swiss-US Free Trade Agreement (2006), NAFTA Revisited:

Achievements and Challenges (2005), Reforming the US Corporate Tax (2005), Awakening Monster: The

Alien Tort Statute of 1789 (2003), The Benefits of Price Covergence (2002) and World Capital Markets

(2001), and coeditor of Capitalizing on the Morocco-US Free Trade Agreement: A Road Map for Success

(2009), Maghreb Regional and Global Integration: A Dream to Be Fulfilled (2008), The Ex-Im Bank in

the 21st Century (2001), Unfinished Business: Telecommunications after the Uruguay Round (1997) and

Flying High: Liberalizing Civil Aviation in the Asia Pacific (1996). He is author of Fundamental Tax

Reform and Border Tax Adjustments (1996) and US Taxation of International Income (1992), and

coauthor of Western Hemisphere Economic Integration (1994), Measuring the Costs of Protection in the

United States (1994), NAFTA: An Assessment (rev. 1993), North American Free Trade (1992), Economic

Sanctions Reconsidered (2d ed. 1990), Trade Policy for Troubled Industries (1986), and Subsidies in

International Trade (1984).

David Hunter is Professor of Law, Director of the International Legal Studies Program and Director

of the Program on International and Comparative Environmental Law at American University's

Washington College of Law. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the Bank Information

Center, Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide-US, EarthRights International, and the Project on

Government Oversight (chair), and is a Board Member and Member Scholar of the Center for

Progressive Reform. He is also a member of the Organization of American States’ Expert Group on

Environmental Law, the Steering Committee of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law,

and the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman’s Strategic Advisors Group.

Randolph Persaud is an Associate Professor of international relations and Director of the Comparative

and Regional Studies Program at the School of International Service, Washington D.C. His research

interests are in the areas of critical political economy and I.R. theory. He has published extensively in the

area of post-colonialism. Dr. Persaud is currently working on a manuscript on race and empire, as well as

some papers on human security. He is the author of Counter-Hegemony and Foreign Policy. Prior to

joining SIS, Prof. Persaud was Assistant Director for the Center for International and Security Studies at

York University in Toronto.

Malini Ranganathan is an interdisciplinary geographer with interests in the political ecology of urban

infrastructure governance in rapidly developing regions of the world. Focusing on the South Asian

metropolis, her research investigates the controversial governance processes underlying water access and

sectoral reforms. She uses multi-sited, multi-scaled ethnography to uncover how bureaucrats and other

experts make decisions about water infrastructure, and how affected (and most often marginalized) groups

stake their citizenship claims. Her current project, funded most recently by a post-doctoral fellowship at

the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign explores the governance and biopolitics of stormwater

drains as a lens into the geography of urban flood vulnerability in Bangalore, India. More broadly, this

project furthers our understanding of cities and climate change vulnerability and the prospects for climate

change adaptation.

Michael Schroeder is Professorial Lecturer at the School of International Service at American

University. His research interests include organization theory, the UN system, global governance, crisis

diplomacy, peace operations and executive leadership. He is currently completing a manuscript

investigating the varying influence of individual U.N. Secretaries-General (SG’s) on the organization’s

adaptation to major normative and political change in world politics. His research on UN electoral

assistance has appeared in Global Governance and he has a forthcoming chapter in an edited volume on

norm implementation in global governance.