Armando Barrientos
Professor and Research Director
Brooks World Poverty Institute
University of Manchester, UK
His research interests focus on the linkages existing between welfare programmes and labour markets in developing countries, and on policies addressing poverty, vulnerability, and population ageing. Armando Barrientos' work has been published widely. He has acted as an adviser to multilateral, bilateral, and government agencies. His most recent books are Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest (2008, edited with D. Hulme, Palgrave); Just Give Money to the Poor (2010, with J. Hanlon and D. Hulme, Kumarian Press); and Demographics, Employment and Old Age Security: Emerging Trends and Challenges in South Asia (2010, edited with Moneer Alam, MacMillan).
Armando Barrientos was fellow at the ZiF (University of Bielefeld) when he joined the cooperation group »The Road to Global Social Citizenship?« from 1 April through 30 June 2011.
Hartley Dean
Professor
Department of Social Policy
The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
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Hartley Dean has made major contributions to the discipline of social policy research which have been received worldwide. His research interests include discourses of welfare, survival strategies of marginalized social groups, poverty and exclusion, welfare rights, citizenship and rights of redress. He has an unusual biography, working for twelve years in a welfare rights setting at the street level. Through his citizenship lens, Dean increasingly attends to global issues, especially to social rights as human rights. He is one of the most seminal thinkers on social rights. Dean is very active in the international research community in social policy, e.g., currently he is the co-editor of the Journal of Social Policy, the leading journal in the field. His publications include, among others, many articles in leading reviewed journals including Dependency Culture: The explosion of a myth (with P. Taylor-Gooby), Begging Questions: Street-level economic activity and social policy failure, and Understanding Human Need.
Hartley Dean was fellow at the ZiF (University of Bielefeld) when he joined the cooperation group »The Road to Global Social Citizenship?« from 1 April through 30 June 2011.
Harvey M. Jacobs
Professor
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Harvey M. Jacobs is a recognized authority on theory and public policy for land use and environmental management. He is the editor of two books, and the author of nearly 100 academic and professional articles, over 30 of which focus on the social and legal aspects of property rights. Harvey M. Jacobs has consulted and lectured globally, including in western and central Europe, Africa, Canada, the Caribbean and Asia. In 2010, he was the invited keynote speaker at the Fourth Conference of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights and at the inaugural, national conference on Private Property, Planning and the Public Interest, in Canada. Throughout his career Professor Jacobs has won awards and recognition for his research and teaching including most recently from the Government of France; in 2008 Professor Jacobs was honored with the receipt of an L’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, rank Chevalier (Knight).
Harvey M. Jacobs was fellow at the ZiF (University of Bielefeld) when he joined the cooperation group »The Road to Global Social Citizenship?« from 1 April through 30 June 2011.
Virginia Mantouvalou
Co-Director of the UCL Institute for Human Rights and Lecturer in Law
University College London, Faculty of Laws, UK
Virginia Mantouvalou is Co-Director of the UCL Institute for Human Rights and Lecturer in Law. She is the author of Debating Social Rights (with Conor Gearty, Hart, 2011), as well as articles, book chapters and essays in human rights, labour law and European law. In 2010 Virginia was Dean’s Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University Law Centre in Washington DC. Before joining UCL, she was Senior Lecturer in Law and Deputy Director of the Centre for European Law and Integration at the University of Leicester. She previously taught at the London School of Economics. Virginia holds a PhD in Law from the London School of Economics, an LLM in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and an LLB from the University of Athens. She has received several scholarships and awards for her research, including an Arts and Humanities Research Council grant to work on theoretical aspects of social and labour rights. Virginia has also worked as a consultant for projects of the International Labour Organisation and the Equal Rights Trust.
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Manfred Nowak
Professor
University of Vienna
Manfred Nowak, professor of international law and human rights at the University of Vienna, is widely known for his human rights activities, ranging from scholarly work to political mandates in the global arena. One focal point of his scholarly work relates to human rights and extreme poverty. He co-authored the 2002 Guidelines on A Human Rights Approach to Poverty Reduction Strategies, commissioned by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He was Director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at the University of Utrecht (1987–1989), member of the Austrian Delegation to the UN Commission of Human Rights (1986–1993), UN expert in charge of the special process on missing persons in the former Yugoslavia (1994–1997), expert member of the UN Working Group on involuntary and enforced disappearances (1993–2001), judge at the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo (1996–2003), UN expert on disappearances (2001–2006), Swiss Chair of Human Rights at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (2008–2009), and UN special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment (2004–2010).
Michelle Oren
PhD Candidate
Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning
Technion, Haifa, Israel
Michelle Oren holds a MSc in urban planning from the Technion and a BA in political sciences and environmental studies from the University of Haifa. Currently, she is completing her PhD on The Right to Housing: a Public Policy Approach (supervisor: Professor Rachelle Alterman).
Michelle Oren supports FLOOR with her collection of links to constitutions wherever the text is available on the Internet.
Sony Pellissery
Associate Professor
Institute of Rural Management, Anand, India
Sony Pellissery took his Ph.D. at the University of Oxford. He is a public policy specialist with particular interest in politics of service provision in developing countries. His publications have argued about how the development planning process, by the socially constructed state, has been influenced by market forces and the structures of accumulation. His 2009 monograph on the politics of social protection in rural India is a treatise on the implementation of welfare state policies at the local level. In 2009 he won the India Social Science Research Award by International Development Research Centre, Canada. In the past his research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, DfID, ESRC (UK) and the National Science Foundation (USA). Prior to his academic career he spent three years as a community organizer with adivasi (tribal) communities in the region of the Satpura hills of central India.
Sony Pellissery was fellow at the ZiF (University of Bielefeld) when he joined the cooperation group »The Road to Global Social Citizenship?« from 1 April through 30 June 2011.