BIOs of Officers for 2011-2012
Chair
Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner is Professor of Political Science at the City College and The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. She is a specialist in foreign policy, diplomacy and development, particularly with respect to small states, specifically Caribbean states, as well as the nations of the global south in general. Her nine books include most recently, Institutions of the Global South (Routledge, 2009), Small States in Global Affairs: The Foreign Policies of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) (Palgrave-Macmillan 2007), and The Foreign Policies of the Global South: Rethinking Conceptual Frameworks (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003). She has served as president of the Caribbean Studies Association, and has been a member of a number of ISA committees as well as NGO representative between 1995 and 2010. Among other things, she was an ACUNS fellow and assistant to the director of training at UNITAR, a visiting professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, a director of the graduate program in international relations at the City College, and (from 2006-2010) Chair of a high level foreign policy commission related to her geographical area of expertise. She received the Ladd Hollist prize from ISA in 2011 and was honored as one of 50 Distinguished Alumni on the 50th anniversary (2011) of the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago.
Vice Chair
Paulo Esteves is a professor of International Relations at the International relations Institute, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. He was a Post-doctoral Fellow at Copenhagen University in 2008 and a visiting researcher at Rice University (1999-2000). Recent publications include: (i) Peace Operations and the Government of Humanitarian Spaces. International Peacekeeping (forthcoming); (ii) A converqencia entre praticas hurnanitarias e sequranca int ernacional ; (iii) As Operações de Manutenção da Pazeo discurso da Paz Democrática. In: Cepik, Marco Aurélio. (ed.). Segurança Internacional: práticas, tendências e conceitos. São Paulo: Hucitec, 2010; (v) Unfolding the international at late modernity: Humanitarian space and therapeutic politics. NUPI s Theory Seminar Series (2008); Paulo Esteves was also among the founders of the Brazilian International Relations Association (ABRI).
Vice Chair
Lisa Richey is Professor of International Development Studies at the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University in Denmark. She is the author of Brand Aid: Celebrities, Consumption and Development with Stefano Ponte (Minneapolis and London: Univ. of Minnesota Pub.2011), Population Politics and Development: From the Policies to the Clinics (New York and London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008), and the co-editor of “Women and Development: Rethinking Policy and Reconceptualizing Practice” (special issue of Women's Studies Quarterly, 2003). She did her Ph.D. in the Department Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the U.S. She works on global health, gender, and international development and has completed research on Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa.
