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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.


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

BremerSuzanne 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.

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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

tim wiseTimothy 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.

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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

shadlenKenneth 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 photoLiz 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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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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