People at the Ralph Bunche Institute at the Graduate Center at CUNY.

PEOPLE

Simon Adams is the Executive Director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and Senior Research Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center. Prof Adams studied at the University of Witswatersrand in South Africa and at the University of New South Wales, where he received his Ph.D. He is also a graduate of the Executive Leadership Program at the Harvard Business School. Professor Adams has lectured at a number of Australian, North American and African universities and was the Foundation Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. Professor Adams also served as Pro Vice Chancellor (International Engagement) at Monash University.

Stephen Browne,
Senior Fellow, sfbrowne@gmail.com

Martin Burke,
Editorial Assistant, and Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, MBurke@gc.cuny.edu

Michael Busch,
Research Associate, and Ph.D. student, Political Science, mbusch@gc.cuny.edu

Beng Yong Chew,
Senior Fellow, bychen@verizon.net

Ruth Cowan,
Senior Fellow, ruthcowan@aol.com

Alvaro de Soto,
Senior Fellow, Desoto.a@gmail.com

Louis Emmerij,
Senior Fellow, emmerij@netzero.net

Carol Gould,
Director, Center of Global Ethics and Politics and Professor Political Science and Philosophy, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, cgould@gc.cuny.edu

Peter J. Hoffman,
Research Associate, and Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, phoffman@gc.cuny.edu

Angel Jaramillo,
Research Associate, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, ajarmillo@gc.cuny.edu

Rob Jenkins (RBIIS Associate Director) has been Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center since 2008. Prior to that he was Professor of Political Science at the University of London. He holds a DPhil from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex (UK) and a BA from Harvard University. Jenkins has published widely on Indian politics and political economy; movements for democratic accountability; governance reform in developing countries; and the politics of international economic and security assistance. Publications (list available at www.hunter.cuny.edu/polsci/faculty/jenkins) include Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India (Cambridge University Press, 1999); Regional Reflections: Comparing Politics Across India’s States (Oxford, 2004); Reinventing Accountability: Making Democracy Work for Human Development (Palgrave, 2005; coauthored with AM Goetz); and (with AM Goetz), “Addressing Sexual Violence in Internationally Mediated Peace Negotiations,” International Peacekeeping, vol 17, April 2010. Jenkins was lead author of the Report of the Secretary-General on Women’s Participation in Peacebuilding (S/2010/466) while a consultant at the UN Peacebuilding Support Office during most of 2010. He has consulted for and/or received research funding from UNDP, UNESCO, the UK Department for International Development, the World Bank, the US Department of State, Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs & International Trade, the Ford Foundation, the British Academy, the UK Economic and Social Research Council, the Carnegie Corporation, Transparency International (Norway), the Economist Intelligence Unit, the World Economic Forum, and other organizations. Reviews and op-eds have appeared in the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, the Economic and Political Weekly (India), and other publications.

Richard Jolly,
Senior Fellow, rjolly@ids.ac.uk

James O.C. Jonah,
Senior Fellow, jocjonah7@aol.com

Tapio Kanninen,
Senior Fellow, tapio.kanninen@gmail.com

Eli Karetny is a PhD candidate in Political Science writing his dissertation on counterrevolutionary conceptions of freedom in the work of Leo Strauss and Isaiah Berlin. In addition to helping organize the Ralph Bunche Forum speaker series, Eli does research at the UN Archives and Records Management Section (UN ARMS) on the war-time history of the United Nations. Eli is also a Writing Fellow at Brooklyn College and he teaches political theory at Baruch College.

Thomas G. Karis,
Senior Fellow, and Professor Emeritus, tomkaris@aol.com

Naomi Kikoler,
Director of Policy & Advocacy, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, nkikoler@gc.cuny.edu

Rama Mani,
Senior Fellow, ramamani1@gmail.com

Satoshi Miura,
Senior Fellow, smiura@law.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Ronald Nerio,
Research Assistant, rnerio@gc.cuny.edu

Nomvuyo Nolutshungu is a PhD candidate in Political Science, and Executive Assistant to the Director at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. Her dissertation examines the role of expertise and discourse formation in the creation of transitional justice mechanisms. In addition to her work at RBIIS, she is currently teaching in the Women and Gender studies program at Hunter College CUNY. Nomvuyo most recently worked as Project Coordinator for the International Research Network, and has served as a research assistant on a number of academic projects. Her interests include transitional justice, global governance, sexuality studies, and human rights.

Nancy Okada,
Administrative Director, nokada@gc.cuny.edu

Savita Pawnday,
Project Manager, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, spawnday@gc.cuny.edu

Zaida Ramirez,
Executive Assistant, zramirez@gc.cuny.edu

Benjamin Rivlin,
Director Emeritus and Professor Emeritus, brivlin@gc.cuny.edu

Herman Salton,
Senior Fellow, hes3@aber.ac.uk

Mónica Serrano,
Senior Fellow, mserrano@gc.cuny.edu

Patricia Stapleton,
Research Fellow, Program on States and Security, pstapleton@gc.cuny.edu

Jaclyn Streitfeld-Hall,
Research Associate, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, jstreitfeld-hall@gc.cuny.edu

James Traub,
Senior Non-Resident Fellow, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, traub54@gmail.com

Herbert F. Weiss,
Senior Fellow, and Professor Emeritus, herbertweiss@mail.com

Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. Past president of the International Studies Association (2009-10), Chair of the Academic Council on the UN System (2006-9), and editor of Global Governance (2000-5), he has authored or edited some 45 books and 185 articles and book chapters about multilateral approaches to international peace and security, humanitarian action, and sustainable development. His latest authored volumes are Thinking About Global Governance: People and Ideas Matter (2011); Humanitarianism Contested: Where Angels Fear to Tread (2011); Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey (2010); UN Ideas That Changed the World (2009); and What’s Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It (2009).

Jennifer S. Whitaker,
Senior Fellow, RBI, jennifer.whitaker@worldnet.att.net

Susan Woodward,
Director, Program on States and Security, and Professor, swoodward@gc.cuny.edu

Danielle Zach,
Research Associate, and Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, dzach@gc.cuny.edu

Bree Zuckerman,
Research Associate, and Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, bzuckerman@gc.cuny.edu

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