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Executive Committee
Gudmund Hernes is a Norwegian scholar, born in Trondheim in 1941. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Dr Hernes became a Professor of Sociology at the University of Bergen (Norway) in 1969, where he was also Chairman of the Sociology Department and Director of the University’s Centre for Advanced Training in Social Research. Later he became a Professor at the University of Oslo. He was a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, Palo Alto, during the 1974-75 semesters, and twice Visiting Professor at Harvard University, in 1986 and in 1990. Dr. Hernes served as Under-Secretary of Planning in Norway in 1980-81. He served as Minister of Education, Research and Ecclesiastic Affairs from 1990 to 1995 and, in this capacity, launched far-reaching educational reforms in primary, secondary and higher education. He served as Minister of Health in 1995-97 and also launched extensive reforms in this sector. He subsequently joined UNESCO as Director of the Paris-based International Institute for Educational Planning, and was UNESCO’s Coordinator for HIV/AIDS in the period 2001-2005. Dr Hernes has written and edited many specialized books, reports and, articles; has been on the editorial board of several international specialist journals, and is a member of several professional societies and academies. He is now a senior researcher at FAFO Institute for Applied Social Research in Oslo, and an Adjunct Professor at BI Norwegian School of Management. Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research [up] |
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Professor Luk Van Langenhove (born 1957) has been Director of the Comparative Regional Integration Studies Programme of the United Nations University (UNU-CRIS) in Bruges since 1 October 2001, and teaches at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the College of Europe. He was Deputy Secretary-General of the Belgian Federal Services for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs, a post he occupied from May 1995 until September 2001. From 1992 to 1995 he was Deputy Chief of Cabinet of the Belgian Federal Minister of Science Policy. Before that he worked as a researcher and a lecturer at the VUB. Director, [up] |
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Katsuya Kodama is Director of the Community Development Initiative Research Center at Mie University. He specializes in peace studies and comparative sociology. From 2000 to 2004 he was Secretary-General of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA), an organisation seeking to advance interdisciplinary research into the conditions of peace and the causes of war and other forms of violence. He is also former Secretary-General of the Asia-Pacific Peace Research Association (APPRA), an international body that facilitates contacts between peace researchers, educators, advocates as well as specialists in conflict resolution throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Professor Kodama is a second generation Hibakusha. He was educated at Hiroshima University, and received his PhD from Lund University in Sweden. Director, [up] |
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Nominated by the Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ) Prof. Thorns holds a Litt. D from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Prof. Thorns is Professor of Sociology and Director Social Science Research Centre at the University of Canterbury. He is a Fellow, Council Member, Vice President (Social Science) and Chair of the Social Science Advisory Committee of the Royal Society of New Zealand. In 2004-06 he was a member of ISSC Task Force on Communication Strategies for Network Building and prepared the Report on New Communication tools for Research Networking. In 2007 he was appointed to a new ISSC Committee on Development of Social Sciences in Transnational and Developing Economies (CoDate). His publications (books (11), articles, book chapters, research reports, occasional papers) and major research projects which he directed have addressed a number of themes including: suburban and community research; the sociology of housing and residential mobility; social inequality and class formation; comparative urban research; restructuring and change within advanced capitalist societies; urban sustainability; comparative welfare state policy analysis; and globalization and urban change. In his most recent research he has been developing and evaluating computer mediated communication technologies. He is a member of the International Sociological Association (ISA); Member of the Advisory Board of the National Centre for Research on Europe; Board member of the Centre for Housing Research Aotearoa (New Zealand); member of the Editorial Boards such as those of the “Urban Affairs Review”, and “Housing Studies” as well as reviewer for numerous Journals in specialist fields. Prof. Thorns was visiting professor at the Universities of York (UK), Toronto (Canada), and Kings College (UK). From 2008 he was appointed External Examiner to University of Hong Kong Masters Programme in Housing and Urban Management and Planning. Emeritus Professor of Sociology [up] |
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Ordinary Members
Glyn Davies is Director for International Affairs at the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in the UK. Glyn has worked for ESRC since 1971 with past responsibilities for political science, socio-legal studies and educational research, and for the development of ESRC's strategic approach to postgraduate training in the social sciences. He is a graduate in economic history and political science, with a background in education before joining ESRC. He is also a Fellow of the UK Royal Society of Arts, Manufacturing and Design (RSA). Since 2003 Glyn has had lead responsibility for developing international affairs. This has involved an outward looking approach to give ESRC a global approach. It has included active participation in the Norface network of European social science funding agencies; the development of stronger relations with North America, including co-funding agreements; the development of bi-lateral agreements with initially eight countries, which is now expanding to potentially double that number. The strategy has also involved the development and launch, within ESRC, of the joint International Development Programme on Alleviating Poverty. Furthermore, the ESRC, along with the Netherlands Scientific Organisation (NWO), Germany’s Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Research Council of Norway (RCN), and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, has re-affiliated to the ISSC to build a stronger globally-based international social science network. The focus of Glyn's work in this area in the last three years has been to try to ensure a genuinely global reach for social sciences, and to build stronger relations between all social science communities. Director for International Affairs and Deputy Chief Executive [up]
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Barbara Göbel (born 1962) studied social anthropology, prehistory, economic and social history at the Universities of Munich and Göttingen (Germany), holding a Ph.D. (1990) from the latter. She has been a lecturer and senior researcher at the Universities of Göttingen, Tübingen, Hohenheim, Cologne, and Bonn (Germany) and Visiting Professor at several universities in Argentina (Universities of Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Jujuy), Bolivia (University of La Paz) and Chile (Universities of Antofagasta and Arica). She has also worked at the Laboratoire d’ Anthropologie Sociale (Collège de France) in Paris (France). Dr Göbel has more than 3 ½ years ethnographic fieldwork experience in the Andes, mainly NW-Argentina, N-Chile and S-Bolivia. She has published three books and nearly forty articles and is strongly involved in interdisciplinary research and teaching. Her main areas of interest are human-environmental relations, intercultural comparison of risk perception and management, gender relations and social identity, and the cultural, social and economic dimensions of globalization. Between 2002 and October 2005 Barbara Göbel was the Executive Director of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). In June 2005 she was appointed to become the Director of the Ibero-American Institute Berlin (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation), one of the largest centers on Latin America, Spain and Portugal in the world (comprising an outstanding library, an interdisciplinary research institute and a cultural center). She is also teaching at the Free University of Berlin. Barbara Göbel is serving on the boards of diverse national and international organisations working on development and environmental issues or on Latin America. Director, [up] |
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 Professor Alberto MARTINELLI Nominated by the International Sociological Association (ISA); Philippine Social Science Council (PSSC) Alberto Martinelli (Master in Economics and Business at Bocconi University of Milan and Ph.D. (1975) in Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley) is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Milan. Between 1987 and 1999 he was Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences. At present, he is President of the Degree course in Political and Social Sciences and of the Master course in Comparative Institutions and Politics. He chaired the Commission for international scientific cooperation of the University of Milan. He taught in various foreign universities, among which the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, New York University, the University of Valencia and Cairo Ain Shams University. He is member of the Real Academia des Ciencias Morales y Politicas de España. In 1998-2002 he was President of the International Sociological Association. Among his books in English are: Transatlantic Divide. Comparing American and European Society [Oxford University Press, 2007]; Global Modernization. Rethinking the Project of Modernity [Sage, 2005]; Recent Social Trends in Italy [McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997]; International Markets and Global Firms [Sage, 1991]; Economic and Society. Overviews on Economic Sociology (with N. J. Smelser) [Sage, 1990]. He has been member of Italy's National Council of Science and Technology for the whole of its duration. He was Vice-president of the National commission for political, sociological and historical sciences, chaired by the Minister of the University and Science. In 1984-85 and in 1996-98 he has been advisor of the Italian Prime Minister for social policies. In 1990 he chaired the National Commission for the social integration of immigrants. At the regional level, he is member of the Scientific Committees of Lombardy Institute of Research. He was vice-president of the Committee for the Prevention of Criminal Activities of the Milan City Council and the official representative of the City of Milan in the Executive Committee of Eurocities. He is on the editorial board of several scientific journals and writes for newspapers and magazines, among which Il Corriere della sera. University of Milan [up] |
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 Dr. Adebayo OLUKOSHI Nominated by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Adebayo Olukoshi, from Nigeria, holds a PhD in politics from the University of Leeds. Before assuming his present post, he was a Research Professor and Director of research and studies at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs. For the next six years, he was a Senior Research Fellow and Research Programme Coordinator of the Research Programme on the Political and Social Context of Structural Adjustment in Sub-Saharan Africa at the Nordiska Afrika-Institutet (The Nordic Africa Institute) in Uppsala, Sweden. During this period, he served for one year as Professional Staff responsible for the development of the Africa programme at The South Centre, in Geneva, Switzerland. He served as resource person at CODESRIA, at the Universities of Tampere (Finland) and Lund (Sweden) on governance, conflict studies and social movements and guest lecturer at the Uppsala University. Dr Olukoshi has been editor, contributor and member of editorial boards for numerous African and Nigerian journals. Among his numerous publications are: Africa and the Development Challenges in the New Millennium: The NEPAD Debate [Academic Literature, Zed Books, 2006], co-edited with Jimi Adesina and Yao Graham; The Elusive Prince of Danemark: Structural Adjustment and the Crisis of Governance in Africa [Academic Literature, Nordic Africa Institute, 1998]; The Politics of Opposition in Contemporary Africa [Academic Literature, Nordic Africa Institute, 1998]; Challenges to the Nation State in Africa [Academic Literature, Nordic Africa Institute, 1996] edited with Liisa Laakos. Director [up] |
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Michel Sabourin has been Professor of Psychology at the University of Montreal since 1970; from 2004 to 2008, he was Chair of the Department. As an applied social psychologist, his main research interests deal with credibility assessment in a crosscultural context. In Quebec, Sabourin has pioneered the development of a new area of research and practice, legal psychology. He is the author or co-author of more than 70 published scientific contributions (books, book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals). Professor Sabourin has been Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS) since 1993. Previously, he was Editor of the IUPsyS flagship publication, the International Journal of Psychology (1988- 92). He is also the IUPsyS Delegate to the General Assembly of the ICSU Committee on the Use of Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) since 1997; he was elected member of the CODATA Executive Committee in 2004 and re-elected in 2006. Member of the Canadian National Research Council Committee for CODATA since 2001, he was elected its Chair in 2003. He is an active member of the Editorial Board of the Data Science Journal since its creation in 2001. Professor Sabourin was elected President of the Canadian Psychological Association (1990-91) and twice elected President of the College of Psychologists of Quebec (1982- 85, 1992-94). He served as Executive Secretary (1983-87) for Canada and the USA of the Interamerican Society of Psychology. Professor Sabourin is the recipient of numerous national and international awards, including the 2006 Distinguished Psychologist Award of the American Psychological Association Division of International Psychology, the first Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology in 2000, as well as the 2006 Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Profession. In 2007, he was given the Noël-Mailloux 2007 Lifetime Award by the Quebec College of Psychologists for his outstanding contributions to the discipline of psychology. Professor, [up] |
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Prof. Lourdes Sola is a retired Professor of the Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo, Brazil. She holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Oxford, UK. Currently she is in the Executive Board of the Center for Public Policy Research, University of São Paulo, where she co-ordinates a major research project on the Comparative Politics of Economic Transformation in Emerging Market Democracies of Latin America. She is currently President of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) and was one of the founding members of the Research Group 13, “Democratization in Regional Perspective”, established since 1987. Dr. Sola was a visiting scholar at several universities in the US and Europe, respectively at the Kellog Institute, University of Notre Dame and St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. She was also a Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Sao Paulo where eventually co-chaired the Multidisciplinary Group Politics and Economics and directed the project on The Social and Political Matrix of Inflation in Democratising Latin America. As part of the agreement between the University of Sao Paulo and UNRISD, she was placed in charge of the multidisciplinary seminar on "Lessons of the 1980’s in Brazil; What have we learned?" . This led to a publication of a book on the same subject. Her research interests are on comparative politics and the political economy of democratization. Her recent publications are focused mostly on the links between economic transformation and democratization in Latin America and beyond. She was among the first social scientists elected to the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2000) and was awarded the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit (Ordem do Mérito Científico) in 2001, by the Brazilian Government. Center of Public Policy Research [up] |
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Ex Officio Member
Heide Hackmann read for a M.Phil in contemporary social theory at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and holds a PhD in science and technology studies from the University of Twente in the Netherlands . Heide has worked as a science policy maker, researcher and consultant in the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom and South Africa. In her research work at the Universities of Stellenbosch (South Africa), Bielefeld (Germany), Keele (UK) and Twente (Netherlands), she has specialised in science policy studies, the governance of science, and research evaluation. She has participated in a number of EU Framework Programme projects and in 2004 initiated and directed the establishment of an ERA-NET Coordination Action focusing on the coordination of research between Europe and China (CO-REACH). Heide has undertaken science policy consultancy work for the South African Department of Science and Technology, the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the German Academic Exchange Service, the All European Academies, and the Netherlands Scientific Research Organisation. From 2003 to 2007 she served as Head of the Department of International Relations and Quality Assessment of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was elected to the position of Secretary-General of the ISSC by the Council's General Assembly in November 2006. Secretary General, [up] |
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