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[ Back to New Releases ] [Back to Africa Renewal Home ] Material from this article may be freely reproduced, with attribution to "Africa Renewal, United Nations". We would appreciate a copy of the reproduction. The UN Secretary-General's Advisory Panel on International Support for the New Partnership for Africa's Development Chairman: 1. Chief Emeka Anyaoku (Nigeria) is the International President of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Council on International Relations in Nigeria. He is the former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria. Panel Members: 2. Mr. Jagdish Bhagwati (India) is a Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has served as Economic Policy Adviser to the Director-General of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, as Special Adviser to the UN on Globalization, and as External Adviser to the WTO. 3. Dr. Kwesi Botchwey (Ghana) is the Executive Chairman of the African Development Policy Ownership Initiative. He has taught at the University of Zambia, the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and the University of Ghana. He was Minister of Finance of Ghana and was Director of the Africa Research and Programs, Harvard Institute for International Development and the Centre for International Development, Harvard University. He has consulted widely for a number of organizations, including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations. He is a former Minister of Finance of Ghana. 4. Mr. Michel Camdessus (France) is President of the Centre for International Prospective Studies, Special Representative of the President of France for Africa and Honorary Governor of Banque de France. He is a former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and has also served as the Chairman of the Paris Club and as Chairman of the Monetary Committee of the European Economic Community. 5. Professor Fantu Cheru (Ethiopia) teaches African and Development Studies courses and is currently serving as the Governor of the Global Economic Agenda Track of the Helsinki Process on Globalization and Democracy. He has written extensively on development in the African context including South Africa, Kenya and Ethiopia. He is the author of several books on Africa. He has worked as a consultant for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, UNDP, UN-Habitat, SIDA and DANIDA. 6. Prof. Ricardo Hausmann (Venezuela) is Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He has served as the first Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank as well as Minister of Planning of Venezuela and member of the Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela. He also served as Chairman of the IMF-World Bank Development Committee. He was also a visiting fellow at Oxford University. He has done comparative studies between Africa and Latin America. 7. Dr. Richard Jolly (United Kingdom) is a Research Associate at the Institute of Development Studies in the UK and Senior Research Fellow at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project. From 1996-2000 he was Special Adviser to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and architect of the Human Development Report. From 1982-1996 he was Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF. He is currently Chairman of the UN Association of the UK and a Trustee of OXFAM. 8. Ms. Anne Kristin-Sydnes (Norway) is former Minister of Development Cooperation of Norway. As Minister of Development Cooperation, she was very active in addressing issues such as HIV/AIDS, health, education, management of natural resources, and private sector development. 9. Professor Carol Lancaster (USA) is Professor at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development. She has been Deputy Administrator of USAID, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa and has served in a number of government positions. She has also been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Economics and Overseas Development Council. She is the author of numerous books and articles on Africa, including Aid to Africa. Prof Lancaster is expected to take up a new position as Director of African Studies at Georgetown University shortly. 10. Mr. Masaki Miyaji (Japan) is Executive Vice President of Mitsubishi Corporation. He has also served in various capacities within the Mitsubishi Corporation, including two assignments in South Africa, the second as General Manager of the Johannesburg Branch. In addition, he has occupied the post of Regional Coordinator of East and Southern Africa in the Corporation. Other positions occupied by Mr. Miyaji include Executive Director of Mitsubishi Corporation (UK) plc and Executive Vice President of Mitsubishi European Headquarters as well as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Regional Strategy and Coordination Department in Tokyo. 11. Dr. Julienne Ngo Som (Cameroon) is a Chief Research Officer and currently occupies the post of Director of Scientific Information and Technological Development at the Ministry of Scientific & Technical Research in Cameroon. She is a former Minister of Social Affairs and Women Issues in Cameroon. 12. Mr. Cyril Ramaphosa (South Africa) is the Executive Chairman of Millennium Consolidated Investment (MCI); he is a non-executive chairman of Johnnic Holdings, MTN Group Limited and SASRIA. He is the past Chairman of the Black Economic Empowerment Commission. His directorships include South African Breweries plc, FirstRand Limited, Macsteel Holdings, Alexander Forbes and Medscheme Limited. He was former Secretary-General of the African National Congress. 13. Dr. Ismail Serageldin (Egypt) is Director, Library of Alexandria and Distinguished Professor at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Dr. Serageldin serves as Chair and Member of a number of advisory committees for academic research, scientific and international institutions and civil society efforts which include the Institut d'Egypte (Egyptian Academy of Science), TWAS (Third World Academy of Sciences), the Indian National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is Founder and former Chairman, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research and former Chairman, Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP), a microfinance programme. Dr Serageldin has also served in a number of capacities at the World Bank, as Vice President for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development, and for Special Programs. [ Back to New Releases ] [Back to Africa Renewal Home ] Africa Section, Africa Renewal Tel: (212) 963-6857
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