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Advisory Board

Our advisory board includes highly distinguished academics and experts from a variety of fields and traditions.

Bina Agarwal

Bina is Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the University of Manchester, UK. (Wikipedia entry on Bina)

Sabina Alkire

Sabina is the director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford, UK, and Oliver T. Carr, Jr. Professor in International Affairs at George Washington University, USA. (Wikipedia entry on Sabina)

Raymond Baker

Raymond Baker

Raymond is the founder and President of Global Financial Integrity based in Washington DC, USA. (Wikipedia entry on Raymond)

Sonia Bhalotra

Sonia is Professor of Economics at the University of Essex, UK

Ha-Joon Chang

Ha-Joon is a Reader in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge, UK. (Wikipedia entry on Ha-Joon)

Alberto Cimadamore

Alberto is the Scientific Director of CROP (Comparative Research Programme on Poverty), based at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Paul Collier

Paul is the Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford, UK. He is also Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University’s Blavatnik School of Government. (Wikipedia entry on Paul)

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

Sakiko is Professor of International Affairs at the New School, USA. (Wikipedia entry on Sakika)

Des Gasper

Des is Professor within the Academic Staff Unit at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in the Netherlands.

Varun Gauri

Varun is a Senior Economist, specializing in law and justice, within the Development Research Group of the World Bank, USA.

David Hulme

David is Professor of Development Studies and Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester, UK. (Wikipedia entry on David)

Alnoor Ladha

Alnoor is co-founder and Executive Director of /The Rules.

Gerry Mackie

Gerry is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, USA. (Wikipedia entry on Gerry)

Branko Milanović

Branko is Visiting Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA. (Wikipedia entry on Branko)

Jonathan Morduch

Jonathan is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, USA. (Wikipedia entry on Jonathan)

John Roemer

John is the Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science and Economics at Yale University, USA. (Wikipedia entry on John)

Henry Shue

Henry is Professor amd Emeritus Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, UK.

Peter Singer

Peter is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and a Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and the University of Melbourne. (Wikipedia entry on Peter)

Paul Slovic

Paul is Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon, USA. (Wikipedia entry on Paul)

Leif Wenar

Leif holds the Chair of Ethics within the School of Law at King’s College London, UK.

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Welcome to ASAP

Established in 2010, Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) is an international community of academics confronting the rules and practices that perpetuate global poverty. Our evidence-based approach provides:

• alternatives to conventional analysis by media and governmental organizations,
• proposals for reforming national and supranational rules and policies,
• public education encouraging citizens to understand and engage with critical issues.

Academics Stand Against Poverty is registered as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in the United States (EIN #32-0324998)

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Our board includes leading academics from a variety of fields, all with a passionate interest in poverty alleviation.
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We seek the elimination of global poverty, as guided by rigorous evidence-based and normative scholarship.
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