International Consultant in Corporate Responsibility and Global Development
People often search for a common thread in the combined career of an academic, an international development planner, and a social investment manager in an oil company. Three themes unite them: "communities," "Nigeria," and "multi sectoral planning" for development. All converge in the paradox of the oil-rich Niger Delta, where widespread dis¬sent and violence surround the inequities of the oil...
Associate Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
My introduction to Chad was through the US Peace Corps. As a Peace Corps volunteer, I taught courses in English, English Literature, and American Civics at the University of N'Djamena and at the National Teacher's Training Institute in the late 1980s, during the post civil-war period of reconstruction. After leaving the Peace Corps, I stayed in Chad to work on a project to develop a national healt...
Associate Professor and Director of the African Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies
Throughout my professional career, I have been interested in the relationship between economic and political development. This includes a focus on the dominant challenges facing ex-colonial and former socialist countries today:state building and state capacity;economic strategy and policy choice;the political context for economic transformation; andcomparative processes of democratic development.I...
As a Foreign Service Officer from 1970-80, McDonald served as Political Officer in the U.S. Embassies in Uganda and South Africa and as the Desk Officer for Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Sao Tome and Principe. He also was support staff for negotiated settlements in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and Namibia in the late-1970s and did conflict resolution work in Northern Ireland and Burundi.From...
Associate Professor of Education, George Mason University
The journey that made me the educator, teacher educator, and scholar that I am today has been long, eventful, and marked by ambitious dreams to become what most believed I could not become, and memories of arduously marching to reach goals that have always been as ambitious as the dreams themselves. I was born, raised, and educated in Burundi, Africa where education was a scarce commodity. My 10...
Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-Director, The Center for Ethnicities, Communities and Social Policy, Bryn Mawr College
My interests in the role of women, entrepreneurship, and African development emerge from my studies in Caribbean development and the social history of the family as an undergraduate at Harvard-Radcliffe. After my junior year, I went to Guyana, my father's birthplace, to study the influence of work on family life in the sugar and bauxite industries. This qualitative research project included in...
People often search for a common thread in the combined career of an academic, an international development planner, and a social investment manager in an oil company. Three themes unite them: "communities," "Nigeria," and "multi sectoral planning" for development. All converge in the paradox of the oil-rich Niger Delta, where widespread dis¬sent and violence surround the inequities of the oil...
As a Foreign Service Officer from 1970-80, McDonald served as Political Officer in the U.S. Embassies in Uganda and South Africa and as the Desk Officer for Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Sao Tome and Principe. He also was support staff for negotiated settlements in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and Namibia in the late-1970s and did conflict resolution work in Northern Ireland and Burundi.From...
My interests in the role of women, entrepreneurship, and African development emerge from my studies in Caribbean development and the social history of the family as an undergraduate at Harvard-Radcliffe. After my junior year, I went to Guyana, my father's birthplace, to study the influence of work on family life in the sugar and bauxite industries. This qualitative research project included in...