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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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Lourdes Arizpe is Former Assistant Director General for Culture at UNESCO (1994-1998). She is presently with the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), as Professor and researcher at its Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research. A graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science (PhD in anthropology), she taught at El Colegio de México (1972-1985), and directed the Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares (1985-1988) and the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas at UNAM (1991-1994). She has authored twelve books, which include Parentesco y economía en una sociedad nahua (1972), Antropología breve de México (1993), The Cultural Dimensions of Global Change: An Anthropological Approach (1995), and Culture and Global Change: Social Perspectives of Deforestation in the Lacandona Rain Forest (1995); and is a member of the editorial boards of 7 professional journals based in Colombia, England, Mexico and the USA. She has directed several books on culture, including the World Culture Report of UNESCO. Professor Arizpe is a founding member of the Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos. She also served as President of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (1988-1993); as member of the Joint Latin American Committee of the Social Science Research Council (1987-1990) and the Executive Committee of the Latin American Studies Association (1994-1996); and was a member of the Advisory Committee of the U.N. Human Development Report and World Bank Project on Culture and Public Action. Her honors also include Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships (1978 and 1982), the medal for distinguished activities in the field of culture of the Ministry of Culture in Pakistan, and honorary membership of the Royal Anthropology Institute in England. Finally, she is a member of the Academic Faculty of the Global Economic Forum in Davos. Professor Arizpe has recently been elected as member of the Committee for Development Policies of the Economic and Social Commission of the United Nations and has been awarded the Order of the “Palmes Academiques” by the government of France. Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias (CRIM) [up] |
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 Vice-President Scientific Activities Professor HUANG Ping Nominated by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) Huang Ping is Vice-President (Scientific Activities) of the ISSC and a leading sociologist in China. He is Director General of the Institute of American Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and has been a Senior Fellow and Professor at CASS since 1997. He occupied the position of Deputy Director General of the Institute of Sociology in the period 1998-2003, and was Director General of International Cooperation at CASS for several years. Professor Ping is credited for establishing important links between CASS and the ISSC, as well as other international organisations acting in the fields of social sciences and humanities, including UNESCO, the European Union, the Social Science Research Council in the USA and the Economic and Social Research Council of the UK. Director, Institute of American Studies [up] |
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 Vice-President: Finance Professor Luk VAN LANGENHOVE Nominated by the International Union of Academies (IUA) 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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 Vice-President Information Professor KODAMA Katsuya Nominated by the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) Kodama Katsuya 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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Ordinary Members
Atilio Alberto Boron, born in 1943, Argentina, holds a PhD in Political Science from Harvard University. He has been a full Professor of Social and Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) since 1986. Dr Boron is currently "chief researcher" of the ‘Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas" of Argentina (CONICET), a sister organization patterned after the French CNRS. He served for nine years as the Executive Secretary of CLACSO, the Latin American Council of Social Sciences. He was recently granted the Honorable Essay Award of the Ezequiel Martinez Estrada from the Casa de las Americas for his book: Imperio & Imperialismo, Una lectura Critica de Michael Hardt y Antonio Negri. Dr Boron is the author of numerous other books and articles and has been a Visiting Professor at numerous institutions, amongst them the Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT), Columbia University, the University of California/Los Angeles, the University of Notre Dame, and the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). He is also a member of numerous professional associations and scientific committees. Director of PLED, [up] |
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Glyn Davies is Director of Policy and Resources and Deputy Chief Executive of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in the UK. He has overall responsibility for policy strategy, including the active development of international research collaboration. 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 of Policy and Resources 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) 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. Executive Secretary, [up] |
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 Dr. Olive SHISANA Nominated by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) Olive Shisana is a public health professional with extensive research, management and policy development experience spanning over 20 years. She served as Executive Director of the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health at the Human Sciences Research Council where she established and headed a national programme and Africa-wide network on Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health. She has global health experience, obtained while serving as Executive Director of the World Health Organization’s Family and Community Health, where she oversaw HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, women’s health and child and youth development programmes. Dr Shisana obtained her Doctor of Science degree in Behavioural Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health, an institution that admitted her to the Society of Scholars -an honour given to public health graduates who have made a significant contribution to public health. She received the 10 Years of Democracy Award in recognition of her contribution to South Africa’s public health by the Minister of Health; the National Science and Technology Forum 2004 Award of the Dr. T.W. Kambule Senior Black Researcher over the last 5 to 10 years; sponsored by the National Research Foundation Category of the Outstanding contribution to the Science, Engineering and Technology (awarded in 2005). Finally she is a founding member of the South African Academy of Sciences. President and CEO, [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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