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Research TeamHeadPedro Conceição Along with the team at UNDP’s Office of Development Studies, Pedro has been working on identifying the possible impact of the global economic crisis on developing countries. He has also worked recently on the food crisis, on climate change and development, and on the evolution of income distribution across and within countries. Earlier work on financing for development and on global public goods was published by Oxford University Press in books he co-edited (The New Public Finance: Responding to Global Challenges, 2006; Providing Global Public Goods: Managing Globalization, 2003). He has published, amongst others journals, in the Review of Development Economics, Eastern Economic Journal, Ecological Economics, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change. He was deputy director of the office from 2001 to 2005. Previously, he was an assistant professor at the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, teaching and researching on science, technology and innovation policy. He has degrees in Physics and in Economics from the Technical University of Lisbon and a Ph. D. in Public Policy from the LBJ School of Public Affairs, the University of Texas at Austin. Team Members(In alphabetical order) Flora Aller Prior to joining UNDP in 1985 Flora was the Administrative Executive Assistant to the Ambassador of Peru to the United Nations. Nergis Gulasan Nergis’s research interests include development aid and international trade. Prior to joining ODS, she worked in the UNDP Executive Office as a research associate from 2007 to 2009. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, and an M.Sc. in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona, Spain, where she worked as a teaching assistant. She also holds an M.A. in European Politics and Policy from New York University (NYU). Namsuk Kim Namsuk’s research areas include poverty, labor and private sector development issues using micro level data. Before he joined ODS in 2007, he was a researcher for the Poverty and Gender Group of Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office at the World Bank, where he was responsible for drafting policy research papers on poverty and inequality, and also managed capacity building programs in the Caribbean countries. He was a researcher at U.S. Bureau of Census in 2001-2003. He holds M.A. and B.A. degrees in Economics from Seoul National University and a Ph.D. degree in Economics from University of Maryland. Heloisa Marone Heloisa’s research interests include regulation and international finance. Prior to joining ODS she was an economist with the Latin American group at Morgan Stanley. Previously, she was a lecturer at the School of Public and International Affairs at Columbia University. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University, as well as an M.A. in Economics and a B.A. in Public Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a B.A. in Law from the University of São Paulo (USP). Thierry Soret As a political scientist, Thierry’s main interests include global and democratic governance issues. Prior to joining ODS, he was the General Delegate of the European Think Tank Confrontations-Europe working on institutional and democratic reforms of the European Union. Previously, he was a Policy Advisor in charge of theoretical studies on international relations and globalization within the French socialist party and several NGOs. He was admitted at the National School of Administration (ENA), Paris. He holds a Master Degree in political science and international relations from ‘Sciences Po’ Paris, and a degree in Philosophy (licence) from the Paris XII University. Nina Thelen Nina’s main area of responsibility at ODS is research on market-based strategies to reaching the MDGs. Before joining ODS she worked in the German-Brazilian Chamber of Industry and Commerce in São Paulo, Brazil. She holds a graduate degree in international economics with specialization in Latin America from Tuebingen University, Germany. Yanchun Zhang Yanchun’s main research interests are on international macroeconomics, economics of climate change and economic development. Prior to joining ODS she was an assistant professor at San Francisco State University, teaching and researching on macroeconomics, international finance and econometrics. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Shanghai Fudan University and an M.A. and Ph. D. in Economics from University of Virginia. |
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