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GDAE
Researchers And Staff
Co-Directors: Neva R. Goodwin,
William R. Moomaw
Director, Theory and Education Program: Jonathan M. Harris
Director, Research and Policy Program: Timothy
A. Wise
Staff: Mukhtar Amin, Suzanne Bremer, Lauren Denizard, Kevin
Gallagher, Brian Roach
Associated Researchers: Julie
A. Nelson, Ann Helwege, Maria del Carmen Vera-Diaz, Kenneth Shadlen, Lyuba Zarsky, Frank
Ackerman, Liz Stanton, Ramón Bueno, Rachel Massey
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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.
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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]
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.
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Timothy
A. Wise, Director, Research and Policy Program
 Timothy
A. Wise is Director of the Research and Policy Program at the Global Development and
Environment Institute,
Tufts
University, and
leads its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program. With a background in international development, he specializes in agricultural policy and rural development. He is involved in ongoing research in the areas of: Sustainable Rural Development, Beyond Agricultural Subsidies, Mexico Under NAFTA, WTO and Global Trade. He is the co-author of the book (in English and Spanish), Confronting
Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance
in Mexico, and The Promise and the Perils of Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Lessons from Latin America. He is the former executive director of Grassroots International,
a Boston-based international aid organization. He holds a Masters in Public Policy from Tufts'
Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Department.
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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.
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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Lauren Denizard, Program Coordinator
Lauren Denizard holds a B.A. in International Relations and African-American Studies from Syracuse University. During her time at Syracuse she studied abroad in Durban, South Africa where she studied issues of Reconciliation and Development. Most recently, Lauren worked in the development department for Facing History and Ourselves, an international educational and professional development nonprofit headquartered in Brookline, MA.
Kevin
P. Gallagher, Senior Researcher
 Kevin
P. Gallagher is Senior Researcher for the institute’s
Research and Policy Program, and an associate professor
in the Department of International Relations at Boston
University. His research focuses on trade and industrial development. He is involved in research in the areas of Foreign Investment, Mexico Under NAFTA, WTO and Global Trade and China in Latin America. His recent books include The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico's Silicon Valley (with Lyuba Zarsky), Putting
Development First: The Importance of Policy Space in
the WTO and IFIs, and Free
Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond. He writes a regular column on globalization and development for The Guardian. 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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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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Associated Researchers
Julie
A. Nelson, Senior Research Fellow
 Julie A. Nelson is a Senior Research Fellow at GDAE and an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She received her Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1986, and has held positions at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the University of California-Davis, Brandeis University, 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. At GDAE she has co-authored Microeconomics in Context, Macroeconomics in Context, and other curriculum materials.
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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 currently teaches at Boston University. In addition to her work on Latin America, her
interests include environmental policy and the pedagogy
of social values in economics.
Maria del Carmen Vera-Diaz, Research Fellow
 Maria del Carmen Vera-Diaz is a Senior Research Fellow with GDAE’s Globalization and Sustainable Development Program, coordinating the project “Trade, Agricultural Expansion, and Climate Change in the Amazon Basin.” With a background in ecological economics, she received her Ph.D in Geography and Environment from Boston University in 2008 and an M.S. in Development Planning from the Federal University of Pará (Belém, Brazil) in 1999. Her current research focuses on the analysis of large-scale agricultural expansion, in soybeans and other crops, driven by the growing bio-fuel market and the impact on deforestation, protected areas, and indigenous lands in the Amazon. From 1999 to 2003, she worked as a researcher at Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) in Belém (Brazil). She coordinated the projects “Fire’s Economic Costs in the Brazilian Amazon” and “Agribusiness Expansion into the Brazilian Amazon.”
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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 co-editor of The Political Economy of Hemispheric Integration: Responding to Globalization in the Americas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and 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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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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Frank
Ackerman, Senior Research Fellow
 Frank Ackerman is an economist who has written extensively about the economics of climate change and other environmental problems. His book Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing is a critique of cost-benefit analysis and its abuse in US environmental policy. His latest books are Poisoned for Pennies: The Economics of Toxics and Precaution (Island Press, 2008), and Can We Afford the Future? Economics for a Warming World (Zed Books, 2009). He has written numerous academic and popular articles, and has directed policy reports for clients ranging from Greenpeace to the European Parliament. He is a founder and member of the steering committee of Economics for Equity and Environment (the E3 Network), and a member scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform. Frank received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1975, 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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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