SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:
IMPLICATIONS FOR
WORLD PEACE



Conference Participants Biographies



Antonio Herman Benjamin is a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas School of Law, where he teaches Comparative Environmental Law. He holds an L.L.M. from the University of Illinois College of Law. He is currently the chair of Lawyers for a Green Planet Institute and the Chief of the Environmental Protection Division of the Office of the Attorney General for the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Professor Benjamin is also a member of the United Nations Legal Expert Group on Environmental Crimes and has lectured on Environmental Law in a number of countries, including Argentina, Colombia, Portugal and Belgium. He is the editor in chief of the Brazilian Environmental Law Review and has several books and articles published both in Brazil and abroad.



Henrique Brandão Cavalcanti is the former Brazilian Minister of Environment and the Amazon. He is currently the Chairman of the United Nations International Commission for Sustainable Development. This commission's mandate is to foster the application of sustainable development programs in all member nations. Previously, Dr. Cavalcanti was Director of the International Environment Bureau in Geneva. He has served also as Deputy Minister of Mines and Energy, and was the Brazilian delegate to the U.N. Conference on the Human Environment (1972) and to the U.N. Population Conference (1974).



Michael E. Conroy is currently Program Officer for the Ford Foundation in Mexico. Over the past two years Dr. Conroy has been part of a Ford Foundation team developing a new initiative for supporting the Central American Alliance for Sustainable Development and the consolidation of peace in that region. He was Associate Chairman and Director of the Latin American Economic Studies Program at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Conroy's most recent publications focus on the tension between economic stabilization, structural adjustment and the consolidation of peace in El Salvador and on the non-sustainability of nontraditional agricultural exports from Central America.



Dalmo A. Dalari is a professor at the Universidade de São Paulo. A renowned Brazilian lawyer, he was active in the defense of political victims of the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1984). Currently he is working on issues of human rights as they pertain to sustainable development, particularly of indigenous people's rights within the context of Brazilian national development. He is vice-president of the International Commission of Jurists, a member of the Justice and Peace Commission of Sao Paulo, and a judge in the Permanent Tribunal of the People ("Bertrand Russel" Tribunal). Dr. Dalari has published several books and articles on human rights, law, and politics.



Toyin Falola is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Falola is the co- editor of The Journal of African Economic History and Associate Editor of Environment and History. His area of specialization is African history since the l9th century. He has written extensively about development and environment, exploring the issues of sustainable development and stability in Africa. His most recent books include The Predicament of the Nation State, and Decolonization and Development Planning.



Malcolm Gillis is President of Rice University. His work focuses on issues of sustainability from a policy perspective. Among other activities, Dr. Gillis has served as co-editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, member of the Governor's Council of Economic Advisers for the State of Alaska, member of the International Advisory Committee for Hainan, China, and co-founder and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Center for World Environment and Sustainable Development. In 1990, he was named Z. Smith Reynolds Distinguished Professor in Public Policy.



Philip Howard works with the program in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto. Professor Howard is currently a Research Associate for the Project on Environment, Population and Security funded by the Pew Charitable Trust, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the University of Toronto. This project deals with the gathering, integration, and dissemination of existing data on causal linkages among population growth, renewable resources scarcities, migration, and violent conflict. Professor Howard is responsible for the analysis of data sets in a case study of the Chiapas Conflict in Mexico.



Ishrat Husain is the Director of the World Bank Poverty and Social Policy Department. Dr. Husain represents the World Bank system on issues of sustainable development, particularly as they pertain to post-conflict areas. He has worked on issues of social, environmental and economic development in Palestine, as well as the recuperation of the economy and social services in Bosnia. He has held several positions in the World Bank, including: Chief of Bank's Debt and International Finance Division, Chief Economist of the Africa Region Department, Chief Economist of East Asia and Pacific Region. He has written extensively on debt, external finance, and adjustment issues. Dr. Hussain has also served in senior positions in both the Planning and Development Department and Finance Department of the Government of Pakistan.



Ronnie D. Lipschutz is currently Assistant Professor of Politics and Director of the Stevenson Program on Global Security at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Professor Lipschutz is the author of several books on natural resources policy and international conflict including: When Nations Clash: Raw Materials Ideology and Foreign Policy, and the forthcoming Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Governance-The Politics of Nature from Place to Planet. He is Co-editor with Ken Conca of The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics, and Editor of On Security. He is also co-editing, together with Beverly Crawford the book The Political Economy of Cultural Conflict. Professor Lipschutz was President and Senior Associate of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security.



Paul Lovejoy is Professor of History, York University, and Vice President of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His work at the Centre for Refugee Studies includes directing research on population displacement, repatriation and development. Author and editor of fifteen books on African history and the African Diaspora, Dr. Lovejoy directs a collaborative research program for the UNESCO Slave Route Project. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.



Antonio R. Magalhães is Tom Slick Professor of World Peace 1995-1996 at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. His work and research have been devoted to regional economics, development planning and sustainable development. He has published several books and articles in this area. Among other positions, he was Vice-Minister of Planning for Brazil and Secretary of Planning for the State of Ceara. In 1991 Dr. Magalhães was awarded the International Mitchell Prize for his work in sustainable development. He is also a founding member of the Esquel Brasil Foundation, a NGO devoted to sponsoring sustainable development in Brazil.



Ray Marshall is the Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Texas-Austin. He served as U.S. Secretary of Labor under Jimmy Carter. He is also a member of the Commission on the Future of Worker/Management Relations, co-chair for the Commission on Skills of the American, and a jurist of the Heinz Family Foundation Awards. He is a board member of the Institute for the Future, National Center on Education and the Economy, Industrial Relations Research Association, and the National Alliance of Business.



Stahis S. Panagides has extensive experience in international development having worked in senior staff positions with the World Bank, the Organization of American States(OAS), the Ford Foundation and the University of California (Berkeley). He served as the first Resident Representative of the World Bank in Northeast Brazil and directed the OAS Program of Rural- Urban Development. Mr. Panagides is founding member and Vice-President of Esquel Group Foundation, Inc. (Grupo Esquel), an institution dedicated to participatory and sustainable development with affiliates in eight countries. He is Adjunct Faculty, George Washington University, since 1989. His PhD Thesis studied conflict resolution in Cyprus and was reported in Communal Conflict and Economic Considerations: The Case of Cyprus, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 5, 1968.



Lazlo Pinter is Program Officer of the Measurement and Indicators Program at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in Winnipeg, Canada. Dr. Pinter has conducted extensive research on the relationship between sustainable development and security. His current research deals with indicators and measurement methodologies in the context of sustainable development. In particular, he focuses on the methods of stakeholder involvement in indicator selection and the integration of biophysical and socioeconomic factors in indicator sets and decision processes. He also conducts research in integrated regional planning and assessment. Dr. Pinter is an executive board member of REEF and REEF USA, an international non-profit organization interested in coastal research and education, and a member of Canada's National Agriculture Environment Committee



Elspeth Rostow is the Stiles Professor Emerita in American Studies and Professor of Government at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Professor Rostow served as a member of the President's Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations and the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties. She was also director of the United States Institute of Peace. She is currently a Trustee of the National Academy of Public Administration and the Southern Center for International Studies in Atlanta, and a member of the Board of Advisors to the President of the Naval War College. Professor Rostow has lectured in thirty-four countries under the auspices of the Fullbright program and the U.S. Information Agency.



Walt W. Rostow is the Rex G. Baker Jr. Professor of Political Economy at the University of Texas at Austin. He has worked with the Department of State and the Economic Commission for Europe as a senior economist. He has also served as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, Counselor for the Chairman of the U.S. Department of State Policy Planning Counsel, and U.S. Representative in the Alliance for Progress, among several other top-level assignments. As an educator, Dr. Rostow has taught at Cambridge University, Oxford University, and MIT. He has published innumerable books and articles on issues concerning political economy, economic growth, development, international relations, and economics history. Dr. Rostow was decorated with the Legion of Merit, the Honorable Order of the British Empire, and has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.



Max Sherman is Dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also the J.J. "Jake" Pickle Regents Chair in Public Affairs. Dr. Sherman has wide experience in law, academic administration, and government. He has served as Special Counsel to the Governor of Texas, and has served in the Texas Senate form 1971 to 1977. Dean Sherman has held several national and state appointments to boards and committees studying such topics as higher education, intergovernmental relations, mental health, hazardous waste management, infrastructure needs and financing, and energy and conservation. He is presently serving on The National Commission on State and Local Public Service, created for the purpose of studying ways to improve governmental effectiveness. Dean Sherman is member of the National Academy of Public Administration.



Nikhil Sinha is the Associate Director of the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also Assistant Professor of Communication in the Department of Radio-TV-Film. He works as a consultant to the World Bank and as advisor to the Indian Telecom Commission and the Indian Planning Commission. He also served on the advisory committee of the Indo-U.S. Sub-Commission on Education and Culture. Dr. Sinha started his career in the Government of India where he served in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and as Chief News Editor of All India Radio.



Andrew Steer is the Director of the World Bank Environment Department, where he oversees all of the Bank's programs in terms of their impact on the environment, introducing concepts and practices of sustainability into those projects. Steer has been instrumental in determining the actual implementation of sustainable development programs through financing decisions. He is the principal author of the World Bank's World Development Report for 1992, Development and the Environment, the World Bank's primary contribution to the Rio Earth Summit. He has also authored numerous other books and articles on the subject of environment and development, including, most recently, Making Development Sustainable-from Concepts to Action, co-authored with Ismail Serageldin.



Sidney Weintraub is the Dean Rusk Professor of International Affairs at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and the Director of the U.S.-Mexico Policy Studies Program. He holds the William E. Sirnon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. Dr. Weintraub has served as Assistant Administrator of the USAID, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, Chief of the AID Mission in Chile, and Chief of Commercial Policy in the State Department. He has written extensively about the U.S.-Mexico-Canada relationship. Dr. Weintraub serves as a consultant to U.S. government agencies, private corporations, consulting firms, and many international institutions, including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Inter- American Development Bank, and the United Nations.
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