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GDAE
Researchers And Staff
GDAE
Co-Directors: Neva R. Goodwin,
William R. Moomaw
GDAE
Program Directors: Frank
Ackerman, Jonathan M. Harris
GDAE Deputy Director: Timothy
A. Wise
GDAE Staff: Mukhtar Amin, Joshua
Berkowitz, Suzanne Bremer, Kevin
Gallagher, Julie
A. Nelson, Brian Roach
Associated Researchers: Ramón Bueno, Anne-Marie Codur, Luciana Togeiro de Almeida, Ann Helwege, Rachel Massey, Roberto Porzecanski, Kenneth Shadlen, Liz Stanton, Lyuba Zarsky
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Neva
R. Goodwin, Co-Director
 Neva
Goodwin received a Masters' degree in Public Administration
from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government
('82) and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University
('87). She is active in a variety of attempts to synthesize
and institutionalize an economic theory - "contextual
economics" - that will have more relevance to real
world concerns than does the dominant economic paradigm.
She is also involved with efforts to motivate business
to recognize social and ecological health as significant,
long-term corporate goals. As Co-Director of the Global
Development And Environment Institute, she has supervised
the six-volume project, Frontier Issues in Economic
Thought, and is editing a Michigan Press series,
Evolving Values for a Capitalist World. Dr. Goodwin
is lead author of the introductory college-level textbook,
Microeconomics in Context, whose Transitional
Economies Edition has been translated into Russian and
Vietnamese, and was published in those countries in
2002. The U.S. version is published by Houghton Mifflin.
She is currently working on the companion, Macroeconomics
in Context, and is leading a project that will
create a 300 megabyte "Social Science Library"
CD for free distribution to all university libraries
in nearly 150 developing countries.
[C.V.] Links to Selected Publications
William
R. Moomaw, Co-Director
 Dr.
William R. Moomaw holds a Ph.D. from MIT in physical
chemistry. He is Professor of International Environmental
Policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at
Tufts University and directs the International Environmental
and Resource Program there. He is the Senior Director
of the Tufts Institute of the Environment (TIE), an
interdisciplinary research institute at Tufts University.
He is the Principal Lead author for "Industry"
and "Industry, Energy, and Transportation: Impacts
and Adaptation," Climate Change 1995, Inter-governmental
Panel on Climate Change. His research interests include:
global climate change; stratospheric ozone depletion;
air pollution; the role of science and technology in
national and international policy; and forest and energy
policy. He is working with diplomats and negotiators
to improve the likely outcome for international treaties
on climate change, biodiversity and other global issues.
[Moomaw Web page]
Frank
Ackerman, Director, Research and Policy Program
 Frank Ackerman is an economist who has written extensively about the economics of climate change and other environmental problems. His books include Can We Afford the Future? Economics for a Warming World (fall 2008), Poisoned for Pennies: The Economics of Toxics and Precaution (2008), Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing (2004), and Why Do We Recycle? Markets, Values, and Public Policy (1997). He is a founder and member of the steering committee of Economists for Equity and Environment (the E3 Network), and a member scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform. Frank received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, and has taught economics at Tufts University and at the University of Massachusetts. Since 2007, he has worked jointly with GDAE and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), leading a research program on climate economics.
[C.V.]
Ackerman
Web page
Mukhtar Amin, Staff Assistant
 Mukhtar Amin holds a B.A. from College of the Atlantic, where he focused on global environmental policy and development. His interest in this field took him to a number of international conferences on environment and development, including the World Summit on Sustainable Development and the 7th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Amin also interned with the Environmental Protection Authority of Ethiopia, where he originally comes from. Since graduating from college, Amin has worked as a Case Manager at the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program where he worked with refugee families from East Africa. Most recently, he worked as the Minority Students Recruitment Coordinator at the University of Vermont. Amin is an admitted student to the Masters Program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy here at Tufts University.
Joshua
Berkowitz, Program Coordinator
 Joshua
Berkowitz holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University in Earth
and Environmental Science. He joined GDAE in April 2005 and now oversees administration, finances, and outreach for the institute. Prior to joining GDAE, Joshua had worked with
The Small-Scale Sustainable Infrastructure Development
Fund (S3IDF), a Cambridge-based nonprofit organization
whose mission is to facilitate small-scale infrastructure
and related investments needed for poverty alleviation
and overall economic advancement in the developing world.
His work with S3IDF involved all aspects of the organization,
including office administration, fundraising, project
support work and staff training and development, the
latter of which brought him to India to work out of
S3IDF’s partner office in Bangalore. It was there
in India, as well as on previous visits throughout Latin
America, that he saw first hand the critical need for
appropriate and sustainable development in the developing
world. His primary areas of interest are in sustainable
natural resource management and community development, with particular
focus on the energy, forest, and water resource sectors,
as well as on dispute and conflict resolution and mediation. He is currently pursuing a Masters
in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts
University.
Ramón Bueno, Research Fellow
 Ramón Bueno works on research and policy analysis in the Climate Economics program at GDAE and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). He brings over 20 years of professional experience designing, building and using analysis models and information systems across a variety of multi-disciplinary applications, including business intelligence and decision support systems. He is fluent in both Spanish and English and has long been a close observer of (sometimes participant in) developments in US-Cuba relations, Puerto Rico, and more broadly the Caribbean and Latin America. Ramón received an M.S. in Systems Modeling and Optimization and recently completed a one-year mid-career program in which he focused on socioeconomic development and policy/impact analysis, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Suzanne
Bremer, Project Coordinator
 Suzanne Bremer, Project Coordinator for the Social
Science Library, holds a BA from Boston University and
a MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons
College. Prior to joining GDAE, Suzanne was the web
master for the city of Newton, Massachusetts and an
automation consultant with the New Hampshire State Library.
She is the author of Long Range Planning: a How-to-Do-It
Manual for Public Libraries. Her current area of
interest is the application of traditional and emerging
information technologies to further sustainable development.
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Kevin
P. Gallagher, Senior Researcher
 Kevin
P. Gallagher is Senior Researcher for the institute’s
Research and Policy Program, and an assistant professor
in the Department of International Relations at Boston
University. His current research focuses on the economics
and politics of economic integration in Latin America
and at the WTO. He is the author of Free Trade and
the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond. He
is also the editor of Putting Development First:
The Importance of Policy Space in the WTO, and
co-editor of International Trade and Sustainable
Development (with Jacob Werksman). He has presented
his work at the WTO, World Bank, OECD, ECLAC, the World
Summit on Sustainable Development, and at other international
conferences on trade and investment policy, economic
development, and the environment. Gallagher holds a
Ph.D. in International Political Economy and a M.A.
in International Environmental Policy from Tufts.
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Jonathan
M. Harris, Director, Theory and Education Program
 Jonathan
M. Harris holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a
Ph.D. from Boston University. He is the author of Environmental
and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach (Houghton Mifflin, 2006). He is co-editor of the Frontier
Issues in Economic Thought volumes A Survey of
Sustainable Development, A Survey of Ecological Economics,
and Human Well-Being and Economic Goals.
He is also editor of Rethinking Sustainability: Power,
Knowledge, and Institutions; author of "World
Agriculture and the Environment"; and co-author
of environmental teaching modules in microeconomics
and macroeconomics. Dr. Harris has served as Adjunct
Associate Professor of International Economics at Tufts
University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and
as consultant and lecturer at the Brown University Watson
Institute International Scholars of the Environment
Program and the University of the Middle East.
[C.V.]
Rachel
Massey, Research Fellow
 Rachel
Massey, Research Fellow with GDAE's program in Economics
for Health and the Environment, holds a Master's degree
in Public Affairs from Princeton University's Woodrow
Wilson School and a Master's degree in Environmental
Change and Management from Oxford University. She has
worked as a researcher, writer, and editor for environmental
organizations including Environmental Research Foundation,
Pesticide Action Network, and the Institute for Science
and Interdisciplinary Studies at Hampshire College.
She has published articles on a variety of health and
environment topics, ranging from health and developmental
effects of toxic exposures through genetic engineering
in agriculture. Her article on health and environmental
implications of US support for the "war on drugs"
in Colombia won a 2003 Project Censored award for top
stories underreported in the mainstream media.
[C.V.]
Publications and
Links
Julie
A. Nelson, Senior Research Associate
 Julie
A. Nelson joined GDAE in September 2001 to work on the
Microeconomics in Context project. She received
her Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of
Wisconsin, Madison, in 1986. Formerly an Associate Professor
of Economics at the University of California-Davis,
she has also held appointments at the U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics, Brandeis University, the University
of Massachusetts Boston, Harvard University, and Bates
College. She is author of Economics for Humans
(University of Chicago Press), Feminism, Objectivity,
and Economics (Routledge), coeditor of Beyond
Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics
and Feminist Economics Today (both University
of Chicago Press), and author of numerous scholarly
articles.
[C.V.]
Links to Selected Publications
Roberto Porzecanski, Research Fellow
 Roberto Porzecanski is a PhD Candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Global Development and Environment Institute, both at Tufts University. His research focuses on the political economy of trade liberalization in the Western Hemisphere as well as on the performance of Latin American economies after the Washington Consensus. The working title of his dissertation is: “High Steakes: the Political Economy of Uruguay’s Trade Liberalization with the US”. Roberto has a BA in International Studies from ORT University, a Diploma in Economics from the Universidad de la República, both in Montevideo (Uruguay) and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School, at Tufts University. He is the co-author of the following papers: “The Dynamism of Mexican Exports: Lost in (Chinese) Translation?” World Development (2008, forthcoming); “China Matters: A Report on China’s Economic Impact in Latin America.” Latin American Research Review (2008, forthcoming); “Economic Reform and Foreign Investment in Latin America: A Critical Assessment.” Progress in Development Studies (2007, forthcoming); “What a Difference a Few Years Makes: China and the Competitiveness of Mexican Exports.” Oxford Development Studies 35:2 (2007)
Brian
Roach, Research Associate
 Brian
Roach received a Ph.D. in environmental policy analysis
from the University of California, Davis in 1995 and
an M.S. in agricultural economics from The Pennsylvania
State University in 1990. From 1997-2001, he worked
at the University of Maine, Orono as a researcher and
teacher. His research background has focused on non-market
valuation of natural resources, including drinking water
quality, water-based recreation, wildlife, and subsistence
activities. As a teacher, he has taught courses in economics
and natural resources. He also developed a course on
the history, theory, and social implications of mass
consumerism. Since coming to GDAE in the summer of 2001,
he has worked on the texts Environmental and Natural
Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach and
Microeconomics in Context, including writing
an Instructors Manual for both. He is currently working
on several research topics including the role of large
corporations in a global economy, thedistributional
implications of tax policy in the U.S., and economic
inequality.
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Timothy
A. Wise, Deputy Director/Researcher
 Timothy
A. Wise is Deputy Director and Researcher with the Global Development and
Environment Institute at
Tufts University.
He is the former executive director of Grassroots International,
a Boston-based international aid organization, and co-author
of Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration
and Popular Resistance in Mexico and A Survey
of Sustainable Development: Social and Economic Dimensions.
He has written extensively on agriculture,
trade, and the environment.
He holds a Masters in Public Policy from Tufts'
Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Department.
[C.V.]
Anne-Marie Codur, Research Associate
 Anne-Marie
Codur has a PhD in Economics from the Institut d'Etudes
Politiques de Paris (France). Her fields of research
include Population, Environment, and Sustainable Development
in the developing world and particularly in North Africa
and the Middle East. She was a post-doctoral fellow
at the Harvard Center for Population and Development
Studies in 1996-97 and on the faculty at Northeastern
University in 1997-98. Since 1997, she has also been
Research Director at the Center for Higher Education
in the Middle East. The goal of this non-profit organization
is to foster coexistence and peace through education
in the Middle East and North Africa by establishing
a system of linked campuses through the region -- the
University of the Middle East -- thus creating a permanent
network for student and faculty exchange.
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Luciana Togeiro de Almeida, Visiting Scholar
 Luciana Togeiro de Almeida is currently a Visiting Scholar at GDAE. She is a former President of the Brazilian Society for Ecological Economics (ECOECO) and current member of the ECOECO and ISEE boards. She holds a Doctorate in Economics from the Sao Paulo State University at Campinas and is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the São Paulo State University at Araraquara, Brazil. She currently teaches Economics of the Environment, International Economics, Social and Economic Development, and International Trade and Sustainable Development. She is presently researching environmental issues in the WTO negotiations and in MERCOSUR. Her recent books include Globalization and the Environment: Lessons from the Americas (edited with Kevin P. Gallagher and Hernan Blanco), and has published widely trade and sustainable development issues in general. In addition, she has served as a consultant and advisor to the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment and to numerous environmental NGOs.
Ann
Helwege, Senior Research Fellow
 Ann Helwege’s research at GDAE
focuses on the relationship between macroeconomic policy
and poverty in Latin America. She is the co-author of Latin America’s Economy, as well as co-editor
of Latin America’s Economic Future and Modernization
and Stagnation: Latin American Agriculture. She has
presented her work at the World Bank, the Federal Reserve
and the International Labor Organization. She holds
a Ph.D. in Economics from SUNY Buffalo, and taught for
many years in Tufts’ Department of Urban and Environmental
Policy. She is currently an associate professor at Emmanuel
College. In addition to her work on Latin America, her
interests include environmental policy and the pedagogy
of social values in economics.
Kenneth
Shadlen, Senior Research Fellow
 Kenneth C. Shadlen is a Senior Research Fellow with GDAE's Globalization and Sustainable Development Program and a senior lecturer (associate professor) of Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Democratization Without Representation: The Politics of Small Industry in Mexico (Penn State University Press, 2004). His current research addresses the politics of intellectual property (IP) and North-South economic integration, focusing on the implications of the new global regime for IP on industrialization and also public health (especially HIV/AIDS treatment) in the developing world. The working title of his new book is The New Politics of Intellectual Property in Latin America. Shadlen received his PhD. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997.
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Liz Stanton, Research Fellow
 Liz Stanton is an economist who works with GDAE and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). Her interests include the economics of climate change and environmental policy, and the relationship between inequality and human well-being. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and is the author of Environment for the People, with James K. Boyce, and the editor of Reclaiming Nature: Worldwide Strategies for Building Natural Assets, with James K. Boyce and Sunita Narain. Liz is also a staff economist and former program director of the Center for Popular Economics in Amherst, Massachusetts.
[C.V.]
Lyuba
Zarsky, Senior Research Fellow
 Lyuba Zarsky is Senior Research Fellow with GDAE's Globalization and Sustainable Development Program and co-author with Kevin Gallagher of Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico's Silicon Valley (MIT Press, 2007). She is Associate Professor at the Graduate School for International Policy Studies at the MontereInstitute of International Studies in Monterey, California and was formerly the co-director of a the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability in Berkeley, California. She has written widely on global trade and investment, corporate accountability, and sustainable development including International Investment for Sustainable Development: Balancing Rights and Rewards (Earthscan Press, 2005); Human Rights and the Environment: Conflicts and Norms in a Globalizing World (Earthscan Press, 2004); and Beyond Good Deeds: Case Studies and A New Policy Agenda for Corporate Accountability (Natural Heritage Institute, 2002). She holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the New School for Social Research and a PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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