We are thrilled to announce that Cat Tully has joined the ASAP Board of Directors. Cat is director of FromOverHere, a consultancy providing strategy and foreign policy advice. Cat has been a major contributor to ASAP\’s growing global network as co-chair of ASAP UK with Meera Tiwari. ASAP UK recently hosted a very successful workshop on curbing illicit financial flows post-2015.
Three leaders of civil society organizations have joined the ASAP Advisory Board, once entirely composed of academics. Raymond Baker, President of Global Financial Integrity, Alnoor Ladha, Co-founder of The Rules, and Leila Janah Founder and CEO of Samasource will sit on the 21-person board, providing direction and advice to ASAP’s Board of Directors and staff.
ASAP President Thomas Pogge speaking at the RSA in London on February 27, 2013, presenting his argument for a new global institutional commitment to the swift and complete eradication of severe poverty.
In conversation with Stephen Lewis, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Ryerson University and former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. Lewis gives his assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the…
Thomas Pogge, President of ASAP, and Mitu Sengupta, ASAP Board Member and President of ASAP Canada, published an essay in the Guardian\’s development blog, Poverty Matters. Sengupta and Pogge argue…
ASAP Oceania, a new ASAP chapter, recently asked a number of leading academics to analyse the poverty implications of some of the policies of the three major parties in Australia…
In this second piece in ASAP’s series on the Millennium Development Goals replacement dialogue, contributing writer Robaiya Nusrat speaks to Professor David Hulme, Executive Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. He is a leading researcher and commentator on rural development, microfinance and the MDG efforts.
In this article, we outline reasons why researchers and teachers should want to join Academics Stand Against Poverty, and we discuss the kinds of impact gains that might be realized through collaboration in the ASAP network.
The UN’s High-Level Panel has now issued its detailed recommendations for global poverty alleviation efforts to replace the Millennium Development Goals project, which expires in 2015. The panel, headed by UK Prime Minister David Cameron and including political leaders, diplomats and poverty experts from around the world, has called for the eradication of severe poverty by 2030 and vigorously addressing climate change, among numerous other proposals (http://www.post2015hlp.org/). The recommendations will form the basis for dialogue between UN member states over the next two years about a new global agreement on poverty and development. ASAP is interviewing experts on global poverty about the new recommendations and the likely
ASAP President Thomas Pogge has an original prescription for the post-MDG agenda, according to The Guardian. Pogge argues that the post-2015 global development framework must be fundamentally different than the…