Fellows in Policy & Public Service

Front row (l-r): Guillermo O'Donnell, Helen Kellogg Professor of Government at University of Notre Dame and prominent theorist on democratization theory in Latin America; Andre Sapir, Brussels-based economist and expert in European convergence and globalization; Helen Caldicott, Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 1985 for her campaigning on nuclear disarmament; Prime Minister of Spain Mr. Jose Luis Zapatero; Joseph Stiglitz, Economics Nobel Prize Winner in 2001 and former Chief Economist and Vice-President of the World Bank; Barbara Probst-Solomon, US writer and columnist; Sir. Nicholas Stern.- Former Chief Economist and Vice-President of the World Bank, present holder of the IG Patel Chair at the London School of Economics and author of the widely-praised Stern Review on the economic cost of climate change.

Back row (l-r): Torben Iversen, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University; Jesus Caldera, Spain's Minister of Labor and Social Affairs and Coordinator of the 2008 Presidential Campaign; Wolfgang Merkel, Professor of Political Sciences at the University of Heidelberg; George Lakoff, Linguistics Professor at the University of California, Berkeley; Jeremy Rifkin, Founder and President of the Foundation on Economic Trends in the US; Maria Joao Rodriguez. Portuguese Economics Professor

PAOLO CAROZZA serves as one of just seven elected members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), an international body that promotes the observance and defense of human rights for 35 nations in the Western Hemisphere. Carozza, halfway through his four-year term, is helping the commission process more than 800 cases brought by individuals or NGOs alleging human rights abuses. (more...)

GUILLERMO O'DONNELL serves on the advisory board of International Progressive Intellectuals of PSOE - Partido Socialista Obrero Español (Workers' Socialist Party of Spain) (see photo above). The board will help draft a strong and coherent manifesto for 2008 as well as future government policy.

MICHAEL COPPEDGE taught a one-week workshop on “Applied Research Methods” at the Institute for Development Studies in Brighton, England, in June.

TIN-BOR VICTORIA HUI has been named an external reviewer for the Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, in Taipei.

GEORGE LOPEZ provided expert testimony on “The efficacy of US and UN sanctions on Iran,” for the United States General Accountability Office on April 18, 2007. From March to October, he served as an external reviewer for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Program in Science, Technology, and Security. In addition, in an interview broadcast November 5, Lopez discussed his new book Uniting Against Terrorism on Chicago Public Radio’s Worldview.

MARY ELLEN O’CONNELL testified before Congress in November as part of an expert panel on “Preserving America’s Global Leadership through International Law and Justice.” Later in the month, she gave the invited presentation “Responsibility to Peace” at the international symposium “The ‘Responsibility to Protect’: Progress, Empty Promise, or a License for ‘Humanitarian’ Intervention?” in Bonn.

GUILLERMO O’DONNELL gave the keynote speech for the international forum “Democracy after the Third Wave,” organized in Taipei in July by Taiwan Thinktank to discuss the problems and challenges faced by new democracies.

DIANNE M. PINDERHUGHES was installed as president of the American Political Science Association on September 1, during the association’s annual meeting in Chicago.