Peter Nolanphn21@cam.ac.uk |
Peter
Nolan is Chair of the Development Studies Committee, Sinyi
Professor
of Chinese Management at the Judge Business School, and a Fellow of
Jesus
College.
He read for his BA in the Faculty of Economics, University of
Cambridge,
and his MSc and PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies
(SOAS),
University of London. His research interests include
globalisation
and big business, poverty, migration, agrarian change, economic theory,
China, transition, and developing countries. His published works
include Transforming China (2004), China at the crossroads
(2003), China and the global economy (2001), China and the
global
business revolution (2001), Coca-Cola and the global business
revolution
(1999),
Indigenous
large firms in China's economic reform (1998),
China's rise, Russia's
fall (1995), and State and market in the Chinese economy
(1993),
together with numerous articles and edited books. Professor Nolan
is Director of the Chinese Big Business Programme.
Maha Abdelrahman
|
Ha-Joon Changhjc1001@econ.cam.ac.uk |
Ha-Joon Chang is Reader in the Political Economy of Development in the Faculty of Economics. He earned his BA in Economics from Seoul National University, Korea, and his MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge. His main research interests include theories of state intervention; institutional economics; industrial policy; privatisation; trade policy; technological progress; globalisation; the East Asian economies; and economic development in historical perspective. He is the author of Bad Samaritans: rich nations, poor policies, and the threat to the developing world (2007); The East Asian development experience: the miracle, the crisis and the future (2006); Reclaiming development: an alternative policy manual (with I. Grabel, 2004); Globalisation, economic development, and the role of the state (2003); Restructuring Korea Inc: financial crisis, corporate reform, and institutional transition (with J.-S. Shin, 2003); Kicking away the ladder: development strategy in historical perspective (2002); and The political economy of industrial policy (1994, 1996). His edited works include Institutional change and economic development (2007); Brazil and South Korea: economic crisis and restructuring (with E. Amann, 2003); Rethinking development economics (2003); The rebel within: Joseph Stiglitz at the World Bank (2001); Financial liberalisation and the Asian crisis (2001, with G. Palma and D.H. Whittaker); The role of the state in economic change (1995, with R. Rowthorn); and The transformation of the Communist economies: against the mainstream (1995, with P. Nolan). He was awarded the 2003 Myrdal Prize by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, and the 2005 Leontief Prize by Tufts University.
June Edmundsje226@cam.ac.uk |
After reading for her BSc Econ at Swansea University, June Edmunds
went
on to complete an MSc in Race Relations at the University of Bristol
and
a PhD at the London School of Economics. Her research background
is in nationalism, ethnic relations, politics, culture, and the
sociology
of generations. She has published widely in these areas with
articles
in journals such as Twentieth Century British History,
Politics,
Ethnicities, Journal of Consumer Culture, and Social
Science and
Medicine,
as well as book chapters on national identity and generational
closure.
She is the author of The left and Israel: party policy change and
internal
democracy (2000), and (with Bryan Turner), Generations, culture
and society (2002). She also edited (with Bryan Turner) Generational
consciousness, narrative and politics (2002). Recent
articles (e.g. in The British
Journal of Sociology, December 2005) look at global politics
and political generations, with a specific focus on global Islam.
Dr Edmunds currently holds an ESRC grant on political participation,
global politics and transnationalism among young Western Muslims.
This project is the first plank of a comparative study on Muslim youth
in Western Europe and the Middle East.
Shailaja Fennellss141@cam.ac.uk |
Shailaja
Fennell
is a University Lecturer in Development Studies attached to the
Department
of Land Economy, and a Fellow of Jesus College. She was awarded
her degrees of BA, MA and
MPhil in Economics from the University of Delhi, and then went on to
read
for her MPhil and PhD in the Faculty of Economics,
University
of Cambridge. Dr Fennell is currently researching
public-private partnerships in education as a member of the DfID-funded
Cambridge-based consortium on educational outcomes for the poor
(RECOUP). Her research interests include institutional reform,
gender and household dynamics, kinship
and ethnicity, comparative economic development, and education
provision and partnerships. Her publications include 'The ethics
of population control', in D. Clark, ed., The Elgar Companion to Development Studies
(2006); Rules, rubrics and riches: the relationship between legal
reform,
institutional change and international development (forthcoming
2007); and Gender, education and
equality: conceptual frameworks, engagements and agendas (ed.
with M. Arnot, forthcoming 2007).
Barry Riderb.rider@jesus.cam.ac.uk |
Barry Rider supervises research, as a Professor of Law, at the University of London. He was appointed Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, on his retirement as its Director in 2003. He has been a Fellow of Jesus College since 1976 and a Fellow Commoner since 2000. He holds a number of overseas appointments, including a Chair in Mercantile Law at the University of the Free State, South Africa, and Chairs in law and criminology at Beijing Normal University, China, and in commercial law at Remin University, China. He has held and continues to hold a number of visiting professorships including at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Florida. Professor Rider read for his LLB and PhD at Queen Mary College, London. He took an MA and a further PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has been awarded honorary doctorates in law from Penn State University, USA, and the University of the Free State, South Africa. He is also a member of the English Bar. For many years Professor Rider has served as a senior international civil servant and has undertaken consultancy work for a number of inter-governmental organisations, including the IMF, Commonwealth Secretariat, European Union and United Nations. He is currently consultant to the Islamic Financial Services Board and International General Counsel to the International Compliance Association. His main areas of research are in financial law and the control of economic crime. He is the general editor of a number of journals and has written and edited books on financial services law, the control of markets abuses, corruption, money laundering, corporate law, and comparative law.
John Sender
js9@soas.ac.uk |
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