The guest bloggers enrich the blog thanks to their specialist contributions. These unique contributors are professionals (journalists, researchers, professors,...) invited to write an article on a topic of their choice. Thanks to them, ID4D aims at offering a broader range of topics going from specialized themes to more general ones. Finally, these writers from different backgrounds will give the blog a more in-depth reflection and give rise to divergent positions in order to maintain the debate.
Thierry Paulais
Thierry Paulais is an urban planner and economist. He started his career in engineering companies and local authority consulting firms where he worked on the economic analysis of investments and financing strategies, both in France and in over twenty countries. He subsequently joined the Caisse des dépôts et consignations as manager of a team in charge of a credit line, under the metropolitan policy, for municipalities in difficulty. In 2000, he joined Agence française de développement (AFD) as Head of the Urban Development Division when it was set up. In 2008, he joined the Cities Alliance Secretariat (Washington, D.C.) to lead a research/publication program on financing cities in Africa. He is the author or co-author of several books on different topics related to housing sector and urban development economics and to financing city investments.
January, 25, 2011 : Financing Africa’s cities starts with endogenous resources
Ger Bergkamp
Ger Bergkamp is Director General of the World Water Council, headquartered in Marseille, France. He has served the water community for more than 20 years. Not long after becoming water advisor for IUCN (The World Conversation Union), he prepared a background study for the United Nation's Commission on Sustainable Development, defining ecosystems through their basic services to humanity, and putting people at the centre of water governance. He then began to advise governments and NGOs on how to translate this approach on the ground, and where to bring environmental sustainability into their own water management practices.
Building on these experiences and based on consultations with hundreds of organisations, he led the preparation of a global agenda for sustainable water management. The resulting Vision for Water and Nature advanced the then-radical notion of using water to solve environmental problems, rather than constantly increasing supplies for wasteful water practices. He sought and found partners from 300 organisations willing to co-pioneer an initiative that would empower poor communities with the resources they would need to thrive. The partnerships he forged in over 40 countries provided the network for what became known as The Water and Nature Initiative. Through hundreds of projects in 35 countries, the Initiative helped nations rewrite their own water legislation, develop their own strategic water plans, or co-operate with their own neighbouring states on their own terms.
2010/09/20 - GER BERGKAMP: Ending Poverty with Water
Jeremy Hobbs
Jeremy Hobbs has been Executive Director of Oxfam International since October 2001, having served on the Oxfam International Board since its inception in 1996 in his capacity as Executive Director of Oxfam Australia.
He represents Oxfam on key development and security issues at the UN, the WTO, the G8, and other multi-lateral institutions, on trade, aid effectiveness, climate change and humanitarian issues (including arms control). He has represented Oxfam on corporate accountability issues in several sectors: community displacement and land rights, labor rights and climate change, and served for several years on the UN Global Compact Advisory Council.
He has been active in promoting and developing NGO accountability and chairs the Board of the International NGO Accountability Charter. He also serves on the Board of the Berlin Civil Society Center which seeks to support and improve NGO performance.
2010/09/13 - JEREMY HOBBS - If every child could go to school
Jon Lomøy
Jon Lomøy has been appointed Director of the Development Co-operation Directorate of the OECD in April 2010. He provides both strategic leadership and orientation to the directorate to shape policies that promote sustainable development in support of the Millennium Development Goals.
Jon Lomøy, a Norwegian national, has devoted his professional career to development. He has held a series of senior positions at the Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation (NORAD) headquarters as Head of the Eastern Africa Division, and Deputy Director and Director of the Africa Department. From 2001 to 2004 he was Director of the Southern Africa Department, where he implemented the first process of country-wide silent partnership with Sweden and Malawi.
In 2004, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Deputy Director General of the Department for Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, where he was responsible for the overall management of the Norwegian bilateral assistance programme. From 2007, he was Ambassador of Norway to Tanzania, managing one of Norway’s largest bilateral aid programmes, with a particular focus on translating global policy initiatives – such as climate change, UN reform and the Partnership for Reduced Maternal and Child Mortality – to country-level activities.
2010/08/30 - JON LOMØY: Towards a smarter Partnership for development effectiveness
Michel Kazatchkine
Michel D. Kazatchkine became Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in April 2007. The Global Fund, based in Geneva, Switzerland, is the world’s leading multilateral financier of programs for the three diseases and one of the major financiers of health systems strengthening. Dr Kazatchkine has spent the past 25 years fighting AIDS as a leading physician, researcher, administrator, advocate, policy maker, and diplomat.
He attended medical school at Necker-Enfants-Malades in Paris, studied immunology at the Pasteur Institute, and has completed postdoctoral fellowships at St Mary’s hospital in London and Harvard Medical School.
His involvement with HIV began in 1983, when, as a young clinical immunologist, he treated a French couple who had returned from Africa with unexplained fever and severe immune deficiency. By 1985, he had started a clinic in Paris specializing in AIDS - which now treats over 1,600 people - and later opened the first night clinic for people with HIV in Paris, enabling them to obtain confidential health care outside working hours.
Dr Margaret Chan
Dr Chan was appointed to the post of Director-General of the World Health Organization on 9 November 2006. Her term will run through June 2012.
In 2003, Dr Chan, from the People's Republic of China, joined WHO as Director of the Department for Protection of the Human Environment. In June 2005, she was appointed Director, Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Response as well as Representative of the Director-General for Pandemic Influenza. In September 2005, she was named Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases.
In 1994, Dr Chan was appointed Director of Health of Hong Kong. In her nine-year tenure as director, she launched new services to prevent the spread of disease and promote better health. She also introduced new initiatives to improve communicable disease surveillance and response, enhance training for public health professionals, and establish better local and international collaboration. She effectively managed outbreaks of avian influenza and of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
2010/07/22 - DR MARGARET CHAN: Sustaining commitment to the MDGs
Eckhard Deutscher
Mr. Eckhard Deutscher has been the Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) since January 2008.
Mr. Deutscher has extensive experience in the politics and economics of international aid. Prior to his post as DAC Chair, Mr. Deutscher was the German Executive Director to the World Bank from 2002 to 2008 and Dean of its Board of Executive Directors from 2006 to 2008. He also held the post of Director of the Centre for Democratic Studies on Latin America, based in Costa Rica, and lectured at universities in Mexico and Peru. From 1991-2000, Mr Deutscher was Director of the German Foundation for International Development (now INWENT). He holds PhDs in Development Studies, and in Social Science and Philosophy from the University of Frankfurt.
Anders Nordström
The launch of our new version of the blog comes at the time of the EDDs. For the occasion we have invited Anders Nordström, Director General of SIDA and co-organiser of the EDDs to be our very first guest blogger. Come and read his post Women’s participation - a key to peace-building and poverty reduction in post-conflict situations and comment on it.
Anders Nordström is Director General of SIDA since January 2008. Before taking this position, he was Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Anders Nordström has a solid background in international development cooperation: since 2003 he was working at the WHO in Geneva, where between May 2006 and January 2007 he was acting Director-General. He has previously worked for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Geneva, for Sida in Stockholm and Zambia, and for the Red Cross in Cambodia and Iran. Anders has also worked as a medical practitioner.
2009/10/19 - ANDERS NORDSTRÖM: Women’s participation - a key to peace-building and poverty reduction in post-conflict situations
Show other posts of ID4D guests :
- 2012/01/25 - Thierry PAULAIS : Financing Africa’s cities starts with endogenous resources
- 2010/09/20 - GER BERGKAMP: Ending Poverty with Water
- 2010/09/13 - JEREMY HOBBS: If every child could go to school
- 2010/08/30 - JON LOMØY: Towards a smarter Partnership for development effectiveness
- 2010/08/05 - MICHEL KAZATCHKINE: Yes we can meet the health-related MDGs! Time to redouble our efforts to fight AIDS, TB and malaria
- 2010/07/22 - DR MARGARET CHAN: Sustaining commitment to the MDGs
- 2010/07/07 - ECKHARD DEUTSCHER: Development cooperation needs greater coherence: how can all policies be geared towards development goals?
- 2009/10/19 - ANDERS NORDSTRÖM: Women’s participation - a key to peace-building and poverty reduction in post-conflict situations
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