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Prof. Badi Baltagi | Prof. Pravin Krishna | Prof. E. Roger Owen | Dr. Omar Razzaz | Prof. Dani Rodrik | Prof. John Waterbury
Prof. Badi Baltagi
Prof. Pravin Krishna
Prof. E. Roger Owen
Dr. Omar Razzaz
Prof. Dani Rodrik
Prof. John Waterbury |
Badi H. Baltagi is distinguished Professor of Economics and Senior Research Associate at the Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University. Following a BS in Statistics at the American University of Beirut, he received his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. He served on the faculty at the University of Houston and Texas A&M University. He is a part-time Chair in Economics, University of Leicester, and was a visiting Professor at the University of Arizona and the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Econometric Analysis of Panel Data; Econometrics, and editor of A Companion to Theoretical Econometrics; Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Panel Data, Volumes I and II; Nonstationary Panels, Panel Cointegration, and Dynamic Panels; Panel Data Econometrics: Theoretical Contributions and Empirical Applications andauthor or co-author of over 100 publications, all in leading economics and statistics journals. Professor Baltagi was the holder of the George Summey, Jr. Professor Chair in Liberal Arts and was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award in Research at Texas A&M University. He is co-editor of Empirical Economics, and associate editor of Journal of Econometrics and Econometric Reviews. He is the replication editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics and the series editor for Contributions to Economic Analysis. He is a fellow of the Journal of Econometrics and a recipient of the Multa and Plura Scripsit Awards from Econometric Theory.
Pravin Krishna is Chung Ju Yung Distinguished Professor of International Economics and Business at Johns Hopkins University (School of Advanced International Studies and Department of Economics) and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Professor Krishna fields of research interest are international economics, political economy and development. He has published articles in a number of scholarly journals including the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Development Economics. He is the author of Trade Blocs: Economics and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Professor Krishna holds a bachelors degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and a PhD in economics from Columbia University. He has previously held appointments at Brown University, University of Chicago, Princeton University and Stanford University and has served as a consultant to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Roger Owen is A.J. Mayer Professor of Middle East History at Harvard University and a former Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University. Prof. Owen taught Middle East economic history at Oxford University for many years prior to joining Harvard. His main research interests include the political and socio-economic history for the Middle East since 1880, including government and administration, development, state/society relations, and colonialism, nationalism and independence. Prof. Owen is the author of several authoritative books on the economic history of Lebanon and the Middle East, including: State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East (revised version, Routledge 2004); A History of the Middle East Economies in the 20th Century with Sevket Pamuk (IB Tauris, 1999); The Middle East in the World Economy 1800-1914 (IB Tauris, 1981); and editor of “The Political Economy of Grand Liban 1920-1970,” Essays on the Crisis in Lebanon, (London: Ithaca, 1976).
Dr. Omar Razzaz is currently the director of Jordan’s Social Security Corporation. He is the former Country Manager of the World Bank’s Lebanon Country Office (2002-2006). Dr. Razzaz joined the World Bank in 1993 through the Young Professionals Program. He then moved to the Private Sector Development Department where he worked with the private participation in infrastructure group focusing on Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. In 2000, Dr. Razzaz joined the Middle East and North Africa Region, where he became the Lead Urban Specialist in the Finance, Private Sector, and Infrastructure Department. He led the preparation of the Yemen Port Cities Development Program; Iran Low Income Housing Program; and the Jordan Municipal Finance Strategy. His country experience includes Russia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Estonia, Belarus, Macedonia, South Africa, Cote d'Ivoire, Central Africa, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran, Lebanon, and Jordan. Prior to joining the Bank, Dr. Razzaz was Assistant Professor at MIT in the International Development Program and the Regional Planning Program at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. He holds a PhD from Harvard University in Urban and Regional Planning and Public Policy, and a post-Doctorate from the Harvard Law School. He has a number of publications in refereed journals.
Dani Rodrik is professor of international political economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and teaches in the School's MPA/ID Program. He has published widely in the areas of international economics, economic development, and political economy. What constitutes good economic policy and why some governments are better than others in adopting it are the central questions on which his research focuses. He is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), Center for Global Development, Institute for International Economics, and Council on Foreign Relations. He has been the recipient of research grants from the Carnegie Corporation, Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation. Among other honors, he was presented the Leontief Award for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought in 2002. Professor Rodrik is the author of several articles published in top academic journals. His 1997 book Has Globalization Gone Too Far? was called “one of the most important economics books of the decade” in Business Week. He recently edited a collection titled In Search of Prosperity: Analytic Narratives on Economic Growth (Princeton University Press, 2003). He is also the author of The New Global Economy and Developing Countries: Making Openness Work (Overseas Development Council, Washington DC, 1999). He is an editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics and an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Literature. He has given the WIDER Annual Lecture (November 2004), the Gaston Eyskens Lectures (October 2002), the Carlos F. Diaz Alejandro Lecture at the Latin American meeting of the Econometric Society (July 2001), the Alfred Marshall Lecture of the European Economic Association (August 1996), and the Raul Prebisch Lecture of UNCTAD (October 1997). His most recent research is concerned with the determinants of economics growth and the consequences of international economic integration. Professor Rodrik holds a Ph.D. in economics and an MPA from Princeton University, and an A.B. (summa cum laude) from Harvard College.
Prof. John Waterbury became the fourteenth president of the American University of Beirut (AUB) in January 1998 and the first president to reside in Beirut since 1984. During his tenure at AUB, Dr. Waterbury has sought to restore the University to its long-standing place and reputation as an institution of higher learning meeting the highest international standards. Before joining AUB, Waterbury was, for nearly twenty years, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He specialized in the political economy of the developing countries with a special focus on the Middle East. He was director of Princeton's Center of International Studies and editor of the academic journal, World Politics, from 1992 to 1998. Waterbury earned his PhD in public law and government at Columbia University in 1968 and went on to the University of Michigan as assistant professor of political science. In 1971 he joined the American Universities Field Staff, a consortium of American Universities, which he represented in Cairo from 1971 to 1977. During 1977-78 he was visiting professor at the Universite‚ Aix-Marseilles III in France. Dr. Waterbury has published widely on the politics of the Middle East, the political economy of public enterprise, and on the development of international river basins. His latest book, ‘The Nile Basin: National Determinants of Collective Action,’ was published by Yale University Press in 2002.
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