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Short Term Visitor Programme - Past

David Loy
11 Jun - 16 Jun 06
Professor of philosophy and religion in the Faculty of International Studies, Bunkyo University, Tokyo; from January 2006: Besl Family Chair of Religion and Ethics, Xavier University, Cincinnati, USA. Professor Loy's research has uniquely combined the study of Buddhist philosophy with Western existentialism and psychotherapy. His comparative study Nonduality (1988) has become a standard work in Buddhist philosophy, and his Lack and Transcendence (1996) complemented this with existential phenomenology to produce a powerful diagnostic tool which lays bare the value orientations operative in post-modern societies. His presence in the IIIS would introduce an Asian philosophical perspective and make the study of the ‘cultural dynamics of globalisation' truly ‘interreligious'.

Ronald Finlay
22 May - 25 May 06
Ragnar Nurske Professor of Economics, Columbia University. He is a leading international trade theorist and is also actively researching the history of international trade.

Mark Drumbl
07 May – 13 May 06
Professor Marc Drumbl, Associate Professor, Washington & Lee Law School Professor Drumbl's research is in the area of mass atrocity and justice. This overlaps with the current research underway in the programmes at the IIIS. He is an emerging figure in the field of international criminal legal research.

Sarantis Kalyvitis
30 Apr - 07 May 06
Sarantis Kalyvitis is an Associate Professor in the Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece. Professor Kalyvitis has published in a wide area of International Finance and Macroeconomics, mainly on issues closer to the scopes of INFINITI. She is currently working on the long run impact of stock market returns on growth for a variety of countries employing mainly non-parametric techniques. Professor Kalyvitis is currently working with IIIS Research Associate, Dr. Ekaterini Panopoulou Department of Economics, NUI, Maynooth, on the long run impact of stock market returns on growth for a variety of countries employing mainly non-parametric techniques.

Antonio Alvarez
27 Apr - 05 May 06
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Oviedo, Spain. Professor Alvarez research is primarily in the field of efficiency and productivity analysis. While much of his work is microeconometric in nature, his current interests include developing models appropriate for making international productivity comparisons. Prof. Alvarez work in this area relates directly to the goals of the IIIS in that it will contribute to our understanding of how international integration impacts on productivity across regions through providing theoretical and empirical models for directly measuring international differences in productivity performance.

Marcus Dickson
17 Oct - 24 Oct 05
Marcus Dickson's research on societal culture and on the inter-relationship between leadership and culture is directly related to several of the research programmes in the IIIS. Specifically, his work is related to the programmes on:
(i) Globalisation and the nation state
(ii) Business as a conduit for globalisation
(iii) Global Networks
Dr. Dickson's experience as a co-principal investigator of the GLOBE Research Project (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness), which is a cross-cultural study involving over 180 researchers from several disciplines and over 60 different nationalities, provides an excellent real-life example of the strength of global networks and cross-cultural engagement. This is particularly relevant to the focus on East-West intellectual exchanges.

Michael Devereux
05 Sep - 09 Sep 05
Michael Devereux is based at University of British Columbia and is a IIIS Research Associate. He is a world leader in international macroeconomics. His research also extends into the international finance field. He is a leading theorist in open-economy macroeconomics. His current work is based on international portfolio choice.

Charles A. Abuka
25 Jul - 29 Jul 05
Charles A. Abuka is Assistant Director in the Research Department of the Bank of Uganda. He holds a PhD from the University of Pretoria on the Impact of trade on Productivity in the South African Manufacturing Sector. In the context of the Policy Coherence in Trade and Agriculture Project he is working on a micro-simulation study of the effects of trade induced price changes on the incidence of poverty amongst Ugandan households.

Anna Santa Drale
25 Jul - 29 Jul 05
Anna Santa Drale is an economist working in the Real Sector Policy Sector of the Bank of Uganda. She holds an MSc in Accounting and Finance from Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda and an MA in Economic Policy from the Graduate Research Institute in Tokyo, Japan. As part of the Policy Coherence in Trade and Agriculture Project she is working on a study of the transmission of international agricultural and food prices to local producers in Uganda.

Fredy T. M. Kilima
25 Jul - 29 Jul 05
Fredy T. M. Kilima is a Lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at Sokoine University, Morogoro, Tanzania. He holds a Phd from Oklahoma State University on Linear Mathematical Programming as applied to Fertilizer Supply Cooperatives. He is conducting the price transmission study on agricultural and food prices in Tanzania for the Policy Coherence in Trade and Agriculture Project.

Eric Strobl
14 Jul -18 Jul 05
Eric Strobl, Associate Professor, University of Paris X. Eric Strobl has worked and published extensively on topics concerning foreign direct investment and development economics. Currently Eric Strobl is working on using portfolio analysis to examine the relationship between export specialization, trade liberalization, and economic growth. This is a joint project with Colm Kearney.

Viviana Fernandez
18 May - 25 May 05
Viviana Fernandez is Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Chile. (To be promoted to Associate Professor). Her research is congruent because international financial integration is a main theme of IIIS. Her main research areas are financial econometrics and international financial markets. She has recently researched on price transmission among stock markets using extreme value theory and wavelet analysis. In addition, she has started work in the area of business-cycles convergence.

Nigel Dower
23 May - 28 May 05
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation, University of Aberdeen. Dr. Dower is a moral and political philosopher with expertise in global ethics, one of the areas into which IIIS is expanding.

Michael Huberman
11 Apr - 15 Apr 05
Huberman is Full Professor (Professeur Titulaire) Department of History, Université de Montréal. Professor Huberman’s recent research has focused on conditions in international labour markets during late 19th and early 20th century globalisation. An important part of this research has been the collection and dissemination of new data relating to work hours and labour standards between 1870 and 1913. In one recent paper (published in the European Review of Economic History, April 2003), Professor Huberman examines the hypothesis that 19th century globalisation led to a “race to the bottom” in terms of international labour standards. He finds that, perhaps due to rising incomes in Europe during this period, measures of employee protection, such as maximum hours legislation and the legalisation and spread of labour unions actually rose in more globalised economies.

Jim Simpson
June 2005
Jim Simpson is Professor of Marketing and Chairman of the Department of Management and Marketing, College of Administrative Science, The University of Alabama in Huntsville. Dr. Simpson has lectured in Taiwan, China, France, Russia, Byelorussia, Romania, and Great Britain. He has also conducted research in Scotland, Italy, Germany and Mexico. He taught the first marketing course ever offered at the International Space University (ISU), Graffenstaden, France. Professor Simpson's research interests include the Structure and Behavior of Marketing Distribution Systems, Relationship Marketing, Marketing High-Technology Products, and Advertising strategies.

Supriya Singh
11 Apr - 15 Apr 05
Associate Professor, Smart Internet Technology Co-operative Research Centre, RMIT University, Melbourne. Professor Singh's current interests are in the social dimensions of internet communication including user-centred design, and a general interest in qualitative research methods in the study of communications. Please contact her by email at: Supriya.singh@rmit.edu.au

Kaushik Bhaumik
09 Feb - 12 Feb 05
Kaushik Bhaumik Research Fellow at the Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, The Open University, United Kingdom. Dr. Bhaumik's research relates to three different research programmes currently being carried out by the IIIS: Historical Antecedents of Contemporary Globalization, Global Networks, and Globalization and the Nation State. He is currently working on a project, From the Bazaar to the Nation: Early Bombay Cinema, 1896- 1936 (to be published by Clarendon Press), which examines the global nature of Indian cinema in the 1920s, both in terms of the networks linking Indian filmmakers to those in other parts of the world (particularly the United States and United Kingdom), and of the impact of foreign cinema on the development of an Indian film industry, on the birth of mass culture in India, and on the formation of Indian national identity.

Max Stackhouse
15 Feb - 25 Feb 05
Max Stackhouse is the Stephen Colwell Professor of Christian Ethics, Princeton Theological Seminary. Professor Stackhouse's prominence in the field of social ethics has spanned four decades. He is one of a handful of theologians who have set the terms of public debate on ethical issues, particularly in the United States. His writings on globalisation and religion, on the ethics of economic life, the ethics of war and peace and on religion and political liberalism are of particular relevance to the research objectives of the IIIS.

Stuart Hyde
30 Oct - 12 Nov 05
Lecturer in Finance and Director of MSc Finance Course, University of Manchester. Dr. Hyde's research interest in Asset Pricing has involved the analysis of both the stock market volatility puzzle and the equity premium puzzle.

Heike Jacobsen
18 Oct- 15 Nov 05
Social Research Centre (SFS), Dortmund, Germany. Dr. Jacobsen is a German social scientist with about twenty years of experience in empirical social research in the field of work, employment and the labour market. Her main interests are in the development of service work and service sectors. She is an academic director at SFS, a publicly funded research institute ( www.sfs-dortmund.de ), and a member of the management boards of the German Association for Social Sciences in Labour Market Research (SAMF) and of the section for the sociology of work in the German Sociological Association (DGS). She teaches sociology at the University of Bochum. At TCD she is working on a review of socio-economic research projects funded under the 4 th and 5 th Framework Programmes with regard to their contributions to the EU-policy for the improvement of working and employment conditions and with regard to needs for further research. Email: Jacobsen@sfs-dortmund.de

Pnina Werbner
30 Oct - 06 Nov 05
Professor of Anthropology at the Faculty of Social Sciences School of Social Relations, Keele University, UK. Professor Werbner's areas of interest are migration, diasporas, cosmopolitanism, global networks and intersecting identities.

Galina Hale
18 Jul - 24 Jul 04
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Yale University. Professor Hale is working on international bond market integration. Her work is empirically-focused and is viewed as the cutting edge of international macroeconomics. For more information: http://www.econ.yale.edu/~gh79/index.html

Raj Aggarwal
04 Jul - 13 Jul 04
Raj Aggarwal holds the Firestone Chair in Finance, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. Professor Aggarwal is a world renown researcher in finance and international business, with specific expertise in financial market integration, finance and economic development and international business practices.

Stephen Thomas
05 Jul - 12 Jul 04
Director of the Health Economics Unit, Department of Public Health, University of Cape Town. Professor Thomas has been conducting health sector research relating to globalisation and the transfer of policies. He has explored the dominant health reform agenda and its effects on African health systems; the impact of international agreements (such as GATS) on the performance of health sectors and the appropriate regulatory of domestic governments.

Georges Siotis
31 May - 04 Jun 04
Associate Professor of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Professor Siotis's major research field of interest are Industrial Organisation, International Economics and Regional Economics. He published in journals on various topics such as foreign direct investment, economic integration and competition, research joint ventures in Europe, innovation and market structure.

Constance Lever-Tracy
25 May - Jun 04
Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia. Dr. Lever-Tracy has research interests in global business networks, ethic diaspora and chain migration processes, and has worked on a number of different groups, including Chinese, Italians, and Maltese, in a number of settings including East Asia and Australia.

Tim Phillips
05 Apr - 25 Apr 04
Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Tasmania. Tim Phillipps has published important work on national identity, and is working on the relationship between national identities and perceptions of external threat. He is an expert on the use of quantitative methods to investigate major sociological issues.

Antonello Zanfei
31 Mar - 07 Apr 04
Associate Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Urbino. Antonello Zanfei specialises in International Business Economics. He has written extensively on a range of issues related to foreign direct investment, in particular on issues relating to the effects of foreign ownership on host country productivity.

Larry Neal
27 Mar - 31 Mar 04
Professor of Economics, University of Illinois. Professor Neal is a leader figure in the field of economic history. He has written extensively on historical development in financial and capital markets. Some of his research has been published recently in high quality reference journals such as the Journal of Economic History.

Martina Brockmeier
22 Mar - 25 Mar 04
Director, Federal Agricultural Research Centre (FAL, Germany), Director, Institute of Market Analysis and Agricultural Trade Policy. Professor Brockmeier heads one of the main European teams using computable general equilibrium modelling to address global agricultural trade reform issues. She is a member of the GTAP Consortium Board concerned with the provision of global databases and global models for the analysis of trade, environmental and technological change issues.

Horace G. Campbell
14 Feb - 27 Feb 04
Professor of Comparative Politics and International Relations, Syracuse University and Department of African American Studies and Department of Political Science, Maxwell School. Professor Campbell is a member of the African Association of Political Scientists, the African Studies Association of the USA, and the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.

Canan Yildirim
24 Nov - 28 Nov 03
Canan Yildirim (CENTER, Tilburg) will be visiting the IIIS as part of an exchange programme under an EU Research Training Network on "Analysis of International Capital Markets" that is coordinated by Philip Lane. She is an expert on international banking and finance.

Anthony Venables
17 Nov - 20 Nov 03
Anthony Venables is professor of economics at the London School of Economics. Professor Venables is widely published in important sub-areas of international economics, especially the industrial-organization approach to trade, the new economic geography, and the theory of multinational firms (the latter with Markusen of the IIIS). In recent work, he has shown how elements of increasing returns to scale and inter-industry linkages combine to generate patterns of spatial agglomeration and income differentials. Venables recently complete a long term as director of international economics at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London.

Cees Wiebs
12 Nov - 13 Nov 03
Dutch Parliamentary Commission on the Srebrencica Massacre
Intelligence and the Srebrenica Massacre. In 1995 seven thousand Muslim males living under the protection of Dutch UN troops in the enclave of Srebrenica were abducted and murdered by Bosnian Serb forces. In April 2002 the Dutch government resigned following the findings of the Netherlands Institute of War Documentation inquiry team on the massacre. Dr Cees Wiebes was the intelligence specialist on the inquiry team, and is the author of Intelligence and the war in Bosnia 1992-1995. He is also a member of the Archival Committee of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a member of the Editorial Board of Global Intelligence Monthly and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Intelligence History.

James Hines
20 Oct - 24 Oct 03
Professor of Economics, University of Michigan. Professor Hines's work focuses on the behaviour of multinational corporations, with an emphasis on design of optimal tax structures for internationally-mobile capital.

Katherine Dominguez
20 Oct - 24 Oct 03
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan. Professor Dominguez is researching a number of core topics in international finance and trade: exchange rate determination; risk and trade; demography and savings; international policy co-ordination.

Peter Dixon
13 Oct - 17 Oct 03
Director and Professor, Centre of Policy Studies, Monash University, Australia. Professor Dixon's research is essentially about using computable general equilibrium modelling for policy analysis and forecasting. He has been largely responsible for the development of the ORANI-style family of CGE models which are widely used, among other things, for trade policy and global environmental policy analysis. Professor Dixon's publication list indicates that some of his most recent research interests include intra-industry trade, policy issues in the Australian economy and environmental policy issues.

Istvan Stumpf
13 Oct - 17 Oct 03
Chair, Szazadveg Foundation, Budapest, Hungary. Professor Stumpf's current research relates to the interaction of sociological and political factors in the integration of Eastern European accession countries into the European Union. Through the Századvég Policy Research Center, he currently leads several projects related to globalisation and its domestic political and social consequences. These large-scale projects are related to governmental, macro-economical and social consequences of Hungary's EU accession. Professor Stumpf is an extremely well-known and influential social scientist in Hungary, both as the head of Századvég and as former Minister of Prime Minister's Office between 1998-2002. He has published and edited numerous books and articles on political socialization, behavior and government performance.

Jonathan Temple
29 Jul - 01 Aug 03
Professor of Economics, University of Bristol. Professor Temple has worked on international technological diffusion; the link between trade and growth; inflation and openness; international trade in equipment and capital goods; social capital and growth. http://www.ecn.bris.ac.uk/www/ecjrwt/research.htm

Partha Chatterjee
22 Jul - 25 Jul 03
Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India, and simultaneously Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, U.S.A. Professor Chatterjee was a founding member of the subaltern studies group of historians. He is the author of the highly influential work, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse (Zed Books, 1986), as well as The Nation and its Fragments (Princeton University Press, 1993), A Possible India: Essays in Political Criticism (Oxford University Press, 1997), Texts of Power: Emerging Disciplines in Colonial Bengal (ed.) (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press), and others. Email: partha@cssscal.org

Kym Anderson
17 Jun - 20 Jul 03
Professor at the School of Economics, University of Adelaide. He is a Research Fellow of Europe's London-based Centre for Economic Policy Research, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.
Email: kym.anderson@adelaide.edu.au

Bent Sorensen
26 May - 30 May 03
Lay Professor of Economics, University of Houston.
Prof. Sorensen's work has focused on how international financial markets allow countries to share risks across borders, providing insurance against economic shocks. This area is a central dimensions of international financial integration.
http://www.uh.edu/~bsorense/

James Der Derian
April 2003
Professor of International Relations, Brown University (Fall), where he directs the INFO/tech/war/preace project (www.infopeace.org) and Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Spring). Prof. Der Derian's research interests include: the interface of information technology and global politics; technological accidents as global events; the revolution in military affairs; literary, cinematic, and photographic representations of war and peace; and making the case for a post-classical approach to international relations theory. Email: James_Der_Deria at Brown.edu

Mary MacKinnon
24 Feb - 28 Feb 03
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Mary MacKinnon is one of Canada's most prominent economic and labour historians. She has written extensively on poverty, unemployment, and the structure of wages in late 19th and early 20th century Canada. Another strand of her research, has involved the study of immigrant assimilation in Canada circa 1900.
Email: mary.mackinnon@McGill.ca

Gregor Noll
24 Feb -28 Feb 03
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden; Director, Refugee Research Programme, Danish Centre for Human Rights, Copenhagen, Denmark. Until September 2002, Dr. Noll served as Research Director and Deputy Director General at the Danish Centre for Human Rights, Copenhagen, Denmark. He continues to direct the Refugee Research Programme, based at the Danish Centre for Human Rights within the framework of a collaborative agreement with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
http://www.jur.lu.se/Internet/Forskare/Noll.nsf

Marius Brulhart
17 Feb - 21 Feb 03
Professor of Economics, HEC Lausanne
http://www.hec.unil.ch/mbrulhar

Holger Gorg
20 Jan - 24 Jan 03
Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Nottingham.
Holger Gorg's major research field is on foreign direct investment. His research work has been primarily empirical, looking at how FDI (via Multinational Enterprises (MNEs)) has impacted on structural change within economies and has influenced the development of local enterprises (LEs) through productivity spillovers and linkages. Prior to his appointment as a lecturer in economics at the University of Nottingham, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy at Nottingham.
Email: Holger.Gorg@nottingham.ac.uk