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W. Richard and Mary Eshelman Faculty Scholar, Professor of Law and International Affairs at Pennsylvania State University (B.A. Brandeis University; M.P.P. Harvard University Kennedy School of Government; J.D. Columbia University). Rresearches in the areas of economic globalization, corporate social responsibility (including human rights and sustainability/climate change), international affairs, global governance, trade and finance, and on Party-State systems, with specific focus on China and Cuba. Teaches courses in corporate law, CSR-RBC, multinational corporations, international institutions, as well as on religion and constitutional law (liberal democratic and Marxist-Leninist) . Lectured in Latin America, Europe and Asia. In addition to journal articles and contributions to collected multi-authored works, his publications include "Elements of Law and the U.S. Legal System "(Carolina Academic Press forthcoming 2021), "Hong Kong Between 'One Country' and 'Two Systems':" (Little Sir Press, forthcoming 2020); "Cuba’s Caribbean Marxism: Essays on Ideology, Government, Society, and Economy in the Post Fidel Castro Era" (Little Sir Press 2018); "Lawyers Making Meaning: The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education II" (Springer, 2013) (with Jan M. Broekman) "Comparative Corporate Law" (Carolina Academic Press 2002), and edited collections of essays, "Signs in Law, a Source Book—The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education" (with Jan M. Broekman, Springer, 2014) "Harmonizing Law in an Era of Globalization" (Carolina Academic Press, 2007). He has published over one hundred articles and book chapters in journals in the U.S., Latin Americas, China, and Europe, where he has also lectured. His short essays on many of these topics may be found on his blogsite: “Law at the End of the Day” (https://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/). Spainsh fuent; reading knowledge French, Italian, Portuguese.
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I lead policy planning and engagement for the Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative, a research center at Penn State University. I facilitate collaborative projects between the research community and external partners, including federal and state-level government agencies and departments, philanthropic organizations and foundations, think tanks, and other academic groups and investigators. My efforts aim to build and maintain strategic partnerships that both produce scientific value and contribute to the creation of policy-relevant, practical insights. I bring nearly a decade of government and political experience to Penn State, having previously served from 2009-2017 at the White House as a Special Assistant to President Obama. I possess extensive theoretical and applied policy expertise gained through formal education and professional experience.
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I am an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy at Penn State University. In my research, I use econometric tools to examine human-environmental interactions related to environmental health, water and sanitation, air pollution, human capital accumulation, and water resource management. My research includes work to understand the processes by which households adopt and use environmental health technologies, the health and educational consequences of ambient air pollution exposure, and the economic implications of water resource management. I also study energy and environmental policy applications. I received my Ph.D. in public policy, with a concentration in economics, from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. I also hold a M.A. in economics from Duke University and B.A.s in economics and political science from Moravian College.
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Senior Lecturer in Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy at SPRU (Science Policy Research Unit), University of Sussex Business School, United Kingdom
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Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Mechanics, and Management (DMMM), Politecnico di Bari, Italy
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Egyptian-American, Economics PhD student at SUNY Stony Brook University and BA from France.
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Research Associate at the Center for Social Solutions, University of Michigan
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Hi, I am the Programme and Evaluation Manager of the University of Warwick's Institute for Global Sustainable Development.
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I am a Senior Lecturer in International Development at the University of Sussex. My research is focused on the politics of extractive industries, and the role of private sector finance in international development. In my research and teaching, I explore these issue by engaging with science & technology studies, political ecology, postcolonial studies and the sociology/geography of finance. I have carried out long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Bangladesh and the United Kingdom, as well as shorter periods of research in South Africa.
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Dr. Giray is the Communications Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, where she oversees strategic communications, public relations, and media activities, promoting the Center’s brand voice and commitment to public health. Dr. Giray has authored peer-reviewed publications, policy reports, and briefs on science communication, global health, globalization, and cross-cultural psychology. Dr. Giray earned her PhD and MS in human development and family studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and BS in psychology from Bilkent University.
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I am an economist interested in development economics, political economy, and economic history. I received my Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 2018. I am an Assistant Professor at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. I was a postdoctoral scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (2019-2020). My research focuses on how variation in institutions — such as property rights — and cultural norms — such as mistrust — affect development and development policy in Central America and Central Africa.