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Senior Social and Environmental Specialist, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, World Bank
ExpertiseOil, gas and mining industry in developing countries; revenue management; social and environmental impacts of oil; Chinese extractive industry companies
University Professor; Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University
Nancy Sherman holds a B.A. magna cum laude with honors in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr College, an M. Litt. in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh, and a Ph.D. from Harvard in moral philosophy (1981), where she received Harvard's George Plympton Adams' Prize (1982) for the most distinguished Ph.D. thesis in the subject area of History of Philosophy.Nancy served as the Inaugural Holder...
University Professor of History, George Mason University
Martin J. Sherwin is University Professor of History at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Before moving to GMU in 2007 he was the Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History at Tufts University for 27 years. His recent book, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (with Kai Bird) won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for biography, the National...
Economics Professor, School of Public Administration, Dalhousie University, Canada
Fazley Siddiq is a Professor of Economics at the School of Public Administration at Dalhousie University, a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and is the 2012-13 Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canada-U.S. Relations at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has served as a member of the professoriate at Dalhousie since 1986 and was...
Senior Lecturer, Department of Law, Russian Academy of Justice, Central Branch, Voronezh
Ph.D. Candidate, Center for Cold War International History Studies, Department of History, East China Normal University
Professor, History Department, University of South Carolina
Marjorie J. Spruill, Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, is an authority on the American women's rights movement. She has a particular interest in the intersection of ideas about gender and politics. Before turning to the study of the modern women's rights movement and the conservative countermovement, she focused on the woman suffrage movement, both nationally and in the Ame...