Contributors

  • Adriana Rossi

    Adriana Rossi coordinates Centro del Sur, the Center for Study and Research on Drugs and Drugs Trafficking of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR) in Argentina. She is a contributing member of the Drugs & Democracy team. Rossi also accompanied a bigger TNI team on a mission to Venezuela and has done research for the No Bases network.

  • Atilio Boron

    Atilio Boron is Director of the Latin American Programme of Distance Education in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a collaborator of TNI's New Politics project. He is also ex-Secretary General of CLACSO – an academic umbrella body for Latin America.

  • Barry K Gills

    Barry K Gills is Professor of Global Politics at Newcastle University and editor of Globalizations journal, and 'Rethinking Globalizations' book series.

  • Brian Ashley

    Brian Ashley has been an activist for many years in South Africa and is editor of Amandla magazine. He was former director of the Alternative
    Information and Development Centre, a partner organisation of TNI.

  • Chaohua Wang

    Chaohua Wang was a member of the standing committee of the Beijing Autonomous Association of College Students in the spring of 1989, and after 4 June was on the Chinese government’s most-wanted list. She has frequently participated in TNI events on the emergence of China onto the global stage.

  • Cynthia Enloe

    Cynthia Enloe is a prominent feminist writer based at Brown University. She worked with TNI's Feminism Project, and has mobilised academics in support of the international no-bases network.

  • Daphne Wysham

    Daphne Wysham is a former TNI fellow and co-director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network of the Institute of Policy Studies.

  • David Fig

    David Fig is TNI's agrofuels researcher in South Africa.

  • Denis Halliday

    Denis Halliday is part of TNI/Dag Hammarskjold's UN reform project, and a former UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq who resigned in protest at sanctions which he condemned as "genocide." He continues to be active on Middle Eastern affairs promoting peace and justice in the region.

  • Frank Slijper

    Frank Slijper is a senior researcher at the Dutch campaign against the arms trade (Campagne tegen Wapenhandel) and an associate of the Transnational Institute (TNI).

  • Fred Halliday

    Fred Halliday, professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, was TNI Fellow from 1975 till 2000.

  • Hugo Cabieses

    Hugo Cabieses, Peruvian economist and specialist on drugs issues, is an associate researcher of TNI's Drugs & Democracy programme.

  • Janet Redman

    Janet is co-director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network at the Institute for Policy Studies, where she provides analysis of the international financial institutions’ energy investment and carbon finance activities.

  • Joanna Cabello

    Joanna Cabello is a researcher with Carbon Trade Watch, a project of the Transnational Institute

  • John Gittings

    John Gittings is a former TNI fellow, long time Guardian foreign editor and an independent journalist specialised on China and nuclear weapon issues.

  • José Henrique R...

    Judge of the Sixth Appellate Court of the High Court of Justice in Sao Paulo, Brazil

  • Juan Carlos Monedero

    Juan Carlos Monedero is Professor of Political Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid and Research Co-ordinator at the Centro Internacional Miranda in Caracas, and a collaborator with the New Politics Programme.

  • Kevin Smith

    Kevin Smith has been working with the environmental justice project at TNI since 2005, although he has been more informally involved since it started out as Carbon Trade Watch in 2002. He has a degree in Human Sciences. He used to be the editor of the Green Pepper magazine and in 2003 he helped to establish Escanda, a residential project in Northern Spain that combines sustainable living with political engagement at local and international levels. He currently lives in London works part time at Platform. He has been active in climate justice issues since the COP 6 in Den Haag in 2000 and participates in the international Durban Network for Climate Justice.

  • Larry Lohmann

    Larry Lohmann from the Corner House is a co-founder of the Durban Group for Climate Justice, together with members of TNI's Carbon Trade Watch.

  • Luisa Mendonca

    Luisa Mendonca is a TNI researcher on agrofuels in Brazil.

  • Manuel Perez Rocha

    Manuel Perez Rocha is an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, and regular contributor to TNI's Alternative Regionalisms programme who has been associated with TNI since 1996 when he began work on EU-Latin America relations.

  • Michael Klare

    Michael Klare is a professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire University, a renowned analyst on oil politics and US defence policy and was TNI's first Phd graduate when TNI used to run an academic programme through a virtual US university.

  • Olivier Hoedeman

    Olivier Hoedeman (Dutch/Danish, MA Political Science), is the research and campaign co-ordinator at Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), an Brussels-based civil society group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups. CEO co-organises the water project with TNI.

  • Oscar Reyes

    Oscar
    Reyes (London, 1977) works on TNI´s Environmental Justice project, is environment editor of Red Pepper magazine, and is co-author of Carbon Trading: how it works and why it fails. From 2005-2008, he was TNI Communications Officer and co-editor of Red Pepper magazine.

    He has a BA from Somerville College, Oxford University and an MA in Politics (Ideology and Discourse Analysis) from the University of Essex. Before joining TNI he was a lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of East London; a lecturer in European Politics at Goldsmiths College, University of London; and co-presenter and producer of a weekly radio show on London’s Resonance FM.

    He was also writer and presenter of World Week Watch, a round-up of global news on Press TV. He was a TNI Young Fellow in 2005.

  • Patrick Bond

    Patrich Bond is political economist and activist who directs the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. He is the co-editor (with Rehana Dada) of Trouble in the air: Global warming and the privatised atmosphere (TNI/Centre for Civil Society, 2007)

  • Peter Weiss

    Peter Weiss, a vice-president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, was present at the creation of The Transnational Institute, is an ex fellow, and is now a member of TNI's International Advisory Board.

  • Philipp Terhorst

    Philipp Terhorst (PhD at the Water Engineering and Development Centre,
    WEDC) is an activist researcher and collaborates with the TNI Water
    Justice Project.

  • Ricardo Soberon

    Ricardo Soberón Garrido, member of TNI's Drugs & Democracy team, is a Peruvian lawyer and analyst on drug trafficking and counter-narcotics policies in the Andean region.

  • Richard Falk

    Richard Falk is a former IPS/TNI fellow, an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, writer, and appointee to two United Nations positions on the occupied Palestinian territories.

  • Roberto Elissalde

    Roberto Elissalde is a Uruguayan journalist who served as editor of the Public Services Year book, assisted with the a TNI fellows’ seminar ("Selling US Wars") in Montevideo, a seminar on the Latin American left, and facilitated work for the drugs programme in the country.

  • Roger Burbach

    Roger Burbach is Director of the Center for the Study of the Americas based in Berkeley, CA. He is long time TNI friend who specialises in Latin American politics.

  • Sarah Anderson

    Sarah Anderson is a Fellow of the TNI's sister Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C and head of the Global Economy Programme.

  • Tamra Gilbertson

    Tamra Gilbertson is one of the founders of Carbon Trade Watch, a project of the Transnational Institute (TNI), and co-author of Carbon Trading: How it works and why it fails. She has been active in the project since 2001 and was a founding member of the Durban Group for Climate Justice. She is trained in photography and film-making and was a co-director of The Carbon Connection. She has been published in the New Internationalist, Opciones and Diagonal. She received a Teamsters Union Scholarship from 1995 to 1998 and the Samuel Rubin Young Fellowship Award in 2004.

  • Tariq Ali

    Tariq Ali is a novelist, historian, political campaigner and one of New Left Review’s editors.

  • V Suresh

    Dr V. Suresh runs the Center for Law, Policy and Human Rights Studies, is advisor to the Supreme Court Commissioner on Food Security in Tamil Nadu, and an active collaborator on TNI's Water Justice project.

  • William Gumede

    William Gumede is a South African journalist, and gave TNI's Bhasker Vashee Memorial Lecture in 2007.

  • Zia Mian

    Zia Mian is a research scientist with the programme on science and global security, based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is a columnist of Foreign Policy in Focus, and contributor to TNI's Militarism and Globalisation project

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