Advisory Board

Nezar AlSayyad Professor Nezar AlSayyad is Associate Dean for International Programs in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley; Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Director of the International Associate for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE); and editor of Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review (TDSR). As a scholar, he has authored and edited several books on housing, identity, tradition urbanism, urban design, urban history, urban informality, tourism and virtuality, including, most recently Cinematic Urbanism. He has also produced and directed two public television video documentaries: Virtual Cairo and At Home with Mother Earth. Among his numerous grants are those received from the U.S. Department of Education, NEA Design Arts Program, Getty Grant Program, and the Graham Foundation. Awards include the Beit AlQuran Medal, Bahrain, the Pioneer American Society Book Award, and the American Institute of Architects Education Honors. Professionally active as both an architect and planner in the United States and Egypt, he is Principal of XXA-Office of Xross-Xultural Architecture. His projects include houses and apartment buildings in Egypt, California, and Saudi Arabia, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley, and award-winning competition entries such as Hadaik Towers, Cairo; and the National Library of Manuscripts, Cairo.	Nancy Barry Nancy Barry served as the President of Women's World Banking from 1990-2006, and has served on the WWB Board of Trustees since 1981. WWB is a global not-for-profit financial institution devoted to increasing poor women’s economic access, participation and power. The WWB global network of 55 microfinance institutions and banks provide financial services to over 18 million low income women and men in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, North America and the Middle East. Ms. Barry is recognized as a global leader in building financial systems that work for microfinance. She is a frequent speaker in fora of top bankers, policy makers and microfinance practitioners. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the Advisory Board of the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative and Asia Society's Asian Social Issues Advisory Committee, and chairs the Donald A. Strauss Foundation Board. She received the award for the Outstanding Woman in Finance and Consulting from HBS Women's Student Association in 2001, the Forbes Executive Women’s Summit Trailblazer Award in 2002, and the Kellogg-McKinsey Award for Distinguished Leadership in 2004. In 2004 and 2005, Barry was named one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World by Forbes magazine. In 2006, the U.S. News and World Report named her one of America's 20 Best Leaders. Prior to joining WWB, Ms. Barry spent 15 years with the World Bank, where she pioneered the Bank's involvement in small enterprises, designing operations in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. As head of the World Bank’s global Industry Development Division, she led the World Bank's work on industry, trade and finance. She chaired the Donor’s Committee on Small and Medium Enterprises, and was a founding member of the CGAP Policy Advisory Group. Ms. Barry has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.	Arthur I. Blaustein Arthur I. Blaustein teaches community development, social history, and urban policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, Professor Blaustein served on the board of the National Endowment for the Humanities (appointed by President Bill Clinton) and as Chair of the President's National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity under President Jimmy Carter. Professor Blaustein has been the faculty advisor to the AmeriCorps Program at the University of California, Berkeley since 1994. Prior to teaching, Professor Blaustein was director of the National Economic Development and Law Center. The center was the largest public interest planning, policy and law center in the United States in the field of community and economic development. During his fourteen-year tenure the center helped establish over 450 community development corporations (CDCs) throughout the nation. Most were urban but many were rural and on Native American reservations. In addition to providing hands-on policy and planning assistance, Professor Blaustein wrote enabling federal and state legislation and formulated a comprehensive strategy for the community economic development movement. Professor Blaustein served as a board member for the Center for Ethics and Economic Policy and on the editorial board of Social Policy. He has previously served as chair of the board of directors of The Center for Rural Studies, and the National Joint Legislative Task Force. Professor Blaustein is the author of several books and publications, most recently Make a Difference: America’s Guide to Volunteering and Community Service. He earned a B.A. from Bard College in 1957 and an M.A. from Columbia University in 1961.
Haile T. Debas Haile T. Debas is executive director of the University of California, San Francisco's Global Health Sciences, the Maurice Galante Distinguished Professor of Surgery, dean emeritus of the School of Medicine, vice chancellor emeritus for medical affairs, and chancellor emeritus at UCSF. Dr. Debas is recognized internationally for his contributions to academic medicine and is widely consulted on issues associated with global health. A native of Eritrea, he received his M.D. from McGill University and completed his surgical training at the University of British Columbia. He was a member of the faculty of Surgery at the University of British Columbia (1971-1979), UCLA (1980– 85), and the University of Washington (1985 – 87). Under Dr. Debas's stewardship, the UCSF School of Medicine became a national model for medical education, an achievement for which he was recognized with the 2004 Abraham Flexner Award of the AAMC. He also spearheaded the formation of several interdepartmental and interdisciplinary centers of excellence and was instrumental in developing UCSF's Mission Bay campus. Dr. Debas has held leadership positions with numerous membership organizations and professional associations. One of the few surgeons to be elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is also a member of the Institute of Medicine. He currently serves on the United Nations Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa and on the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy of the National Academy of Sciences.	Leonard Duhl Leonard Duhl is Professor Emeritus of Public Health and Urban Planning and of Psychiatry at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the founder of the Healthy Cities Movement and is founding director of the International Healthy Cities Foundation. His major area of work is healthy cities, and he consults extensively with governments and international agencies to aid the process of developing them. Throughout his career, Professor Duhl has served as Chief of Planning for the National Institutes of Health, Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and consultant to the WHO, PAHO and UNICEF. He has also contributed to the development of the Peace Corps and the Office of Economic Opportunity. As early as 1952, he wrote about the concept of sick cities. In 1964 he edited The Urban Condition, a landmark book pointing towards an ecological and systems approach to cities and health issues, which provided the conceptual and strategic framework for the movement known today as Healthy Cities. Professor Duhl has had a wide-ranging 40-year career in government and academia, in the Public Health Service, at NIMH, at HUD, writing speeches for Bobby Kennedy, organizing hearings on the health of cities for Senator Abraham Ribicoff, teaching at UC Berkeley, and consulting for WHO and UNICEF. In all of his work, Dr. Duhl has championed the one idea that if you want healthy people, you have to build healthy cities; livable cities with decent housing, clean water and air, recreation programs, community organizations, and strong families. To do this, you have to change things from the ground-up. He says, "The policies that run our society, and in fact run our health systems, are not health policies - they are business policies, they are profit policies, they are power policies." He has promoted this view in many papers, lectures, consultations with governments and international organizations, and in 15 books, including, Social Entrepreneurship of Change (1990 and 2000), City of Health - Governance of Diversity (1992), Health Planning and Social Change (1986), and Urban Condition II (1963). Dr. Duhl collaborated in the background papers for the successful launching of the World Health Organization's Healthy Cities Project in Europe. Since then, healthy city projects have been launched around the globe. He points to healthy policy—how transportation, housing, jobs, environmental concerns, community participation and how the actions of social groups, businesses, and science can improve health. In 2002, Dr. Duhl won the prestigious Abraham Horwitz Award for major contributions to health in Latin America, and his international health leadership. Dr. Leonard Duhl was born in New York. He graduated from the Columbia University in 1945 and received a doctoral degree from the Albany Medical College in 1948.	Dave Evans Dave Evans is a 30-year veteran executive of Silicon Valley who offers a range of services to rapidly growing companies. Since 1990, Evans has been assisting clients in strategic planning, sales and marketing, new business development, mergers and alliances, growth management, and executive development. His clients range from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, primarily in high technology including such leaders as VERITAS (now Symantec), HP, Intel, and British Telecom. Prior to consulting, Evans was VP and Co-Founder of Electronic Arts and held senior marketing positions with Apple Computer, IBM/ROLM Corporation, and the voicemail manufacturer VMX (now Avaya). Mr. Evans holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. in Thermosciences from Stanford University. Dave Evans also mentors students at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and Law School, and teaches an undergraduate course at the University of California, Berkeley on Finding Your Vocation.
Usama M. Fayyad From 2004 to 2008, Dr. Usama Fayyad served as Yahoo!'s chief data officer and executive vice president of Research & Strategic Data Solutions. Fayyad was responsible for Yahoo!'s overall data strategy, architecting Yahoo!'s data policies and systems, prioritizing data investments, and managed the company's data analytics and data processing infrastructure. He also founded the Yahoo! Research organization and hired its key management with the aim of building the premier scientific research organization to develop the new sciences of the Internet, on-line marketing, and innovative interactive applications. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Fayyad co-founded and led the DMX Group, a data mining and data strategy and technology company. In early 2000, he co-founded and served as CEO of digiMine Inc. (now Revenue Science, Inc.), a data analysis and data mining company that built, operated and hosted data warehouses and analytics for some of the world's largest enterprises in online publishing, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications and financial services. As CEO, Fayyad raised over $45 million in venture capital from top VC firms (Mayfield and Mohr Davidow Ventures) and led the growth of the company from 3 employees to over 120 employees. He became Chairman of Revenue Science in June 2003 in order to start the DMX Group business. From 1989 to 1996, Fayyad held a leadership role at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) where his work in the analysis and exploration of scientific databases gathered from observatories, remote-sensing platforms and spacecraft garnered him the top research excellence award that Caltech awards to JPL scientists, as well as a U.S. Government medal from NASA. Fayyad earned his Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1991), and also holds BSE's in both electrical and computer engineering (1984); MSE in computer science and engineering (1986); and M.Sc. in mathematics (1989). He has published over 100 technical articles in the fields of data mining, Artificial Intelligence and Database Systems, and holds over 20 patents. He is a Fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a Fellow of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), has edited two influential books on data mining and launched and served as editor-in-chief of both the primary scientific journal in the field and the primary newsletter in the technical community published by the ACM. He is active in the academic community and holds adjunct professor positions in Australia and Hong Kong. He regularly delivers keynotes and talks at government, industry and academic conferences around the world.	Ian Goldin Dr. Ian Goldin was appointed the first Director of Oxford University’s James Martin 21st Century School on September 1, 2006. From January 2001 to August 2006, Dr. Goldin served at the World Bank, first as Director of Development Policy, and from 2003-2006 as Vice President. As Director of Development Policy he provided policy and management leadership, contributing to the World Bank’s renewed focus on poverty and support of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. He played a catalytic role in the development of the Bank’s research on trade, infrastructure, and migration. On becoming Vice President, Dr. Goldin became an active member of the Bank’s senior management team, and was directly responsible for its relationship with the UK and all other European, North American and developed countries. Goldin led the Bank's collaboration with the United Nations and other partners. From 1996 to 2001, Dr. Goldin was Chief Executive and Managing Director of the Development Bank of Southern Africa and served as an adviser to President Nelson Mandela. He succeeded in transforming the bank to become the leading agent of development in the 14 countries of Southern Africa. Under his leadership, the bank financed the provision of water, electricity and other basic services to over 500 municipalities and supported public utilities, agriculture and small business initiatives throughout southern Africa. During this period, Goldin served on several government committees and boards, accompanied President Mandela on many state visits and was Finance Director for South Africa’s Olympic Bid. Previously, Goldin was Principal Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, and Program Director at the OECD Development Centre in Paris, where he directed the Programs on Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development. Born in South Africa, Goldin has a BA (Hons) and a BSc from the University of Cape Town, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a Doctorate from the University of Oxford. Goldin has received wide recognition for his contributions to development and research, including having been knighted by the French Government and nominated Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. He has published over 50 articles and 12 books, most notably, Globalisation for Development: Trade, Finance, Aid, Migration and Ideas (Palgrave Macmillan, reprinted 2007) and The Economics of Sustainable Development (CUP, 1995). In addition to being Director of the School, Dr. Goldin holds a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford.	Percy C. Hintzen Percy C. Hintzen is Professor and former department chair of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley where he has taught since 1979. He is also a former Director of Peace and Conflict Studies at UC Berkeley. Dr. Hintzen holds a Ph.D. in comparative political sociology from Yale University, M.A. and M.Phil degrees in sociology from Yale University, an M.A. in International Urbanization and Public Policy from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and a Bachelor's of Social Science from the University of Guyana. Professor Hintzen has been a member of Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) since 1980 and has served on the Executive Council, as well as Vice President and President of the CSA. His principal areas of research are post-colonial political economy of the English-Speaking Caribbean, the global African Diaspora, and West Indian and Black immigrants to the United States. Dr. Hintzen’s publications include Problematizing Blackness: Self-Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States (Routledge, 2003) and West Indians in the West: Self Representations in a Migrant Community (NYU, 2001). He is currently completing a volume titled Coloniality, Creole Nationalism, and Globalization in the West Indies, which examines the political, economic, social, and cultural conditions of Caribbean post-colonial formations. He has authored articles in journals and chapters in edited volumes on the political economy of the Caribbean, on West Indian immigration to the United States, and on issues of race and ethnicity in the Caribbean and the United States. Professor Percy Hintzen has taught at Yale and the University of Guyana. At UC Berkeley, he teaches courses on political and economic Development, African and Caribbean political economy, comparative race and ethnicity, and critical methodology.
Susanne Huttner In September, 2007, Susanne Lee Huttner became the Director of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry at the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). Dr. Huttner has over 20 years of experience in the fields of research initiatives and science and technology partnership. Prior to joining the OECD, she was Associate Vice-Provost for Major Research Initiatives and Industry Partnerships in the University of California's Office of the President, where she worked from 2001 to 2007. Over the past decade, she has been responsible for the California Institutes for Science and Innovation and the Industry-University Cooperative Research Programme, which engages hundreds of R&D companies and represents a joint research investment portfolio of more than $2 billion from industry, university, and government sources. These economic development initiatives advance new paradigms for performing science and engineering research. Dr. Huttner also oversaw the University of California Economic Research Program that develops quantitative measures of contributions from industry-university research activities and improves understanding of the role of public research investments in regional economies. Between 1985 and 2001, she served as the director of two biotechnology programmes, the Systemwide Biotechnology Research and Education Program and the BioSTAR Project, which expanded regional basic research and workforce development, and promoted public understanding and scientifically sound public policy making in health, agriculture, environment, and the economy. She also taught neurobiology at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Dr. Huttner's career has focused on leading innovative research initiatives aimed at sustainable regional development through university research partnered with the commercial R&D of entrepreneurial life science and high tech businesses. This work has involved innovative approaches to building consensus among diverse actors, leveraging investments, and mobilising talent. Dr. Huttner holds a B.A. and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of California, Berkeley and a University of California Management Institute certificate.	David Matthews Professor David Matthews is Professor of Diabetes Medicine, a tutorial fellow of Harris Manchester College Oxford, and chairman of the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism (OCDEM), one of the world's foremost centers for the study of diabetes. He divides his time between research, teaching and clinical care. Professor Matthews is active in research, clinical practice and teaching, and thus symbolises in his own work the motto of the center he heads, which is predicated on integrating these disciplines in the study of diabetes, metabolism, and endocrine disorders. He is a well-known clinician in diabetes medicine; he plays an active role in assessing the impact of diabetes throughout the world, and holds a Wellcome Trust grant undertaking the oral history of diabetes. He is part of the DAWN advisory boards, which has undertaken a wide survey of the impact of diabetes in society.	Leslie W. McBee Leslie W. McBee was appointed the Diplomat-in-Residence at UC Berkeley after being the United States Consul General for the south of France, Corsica, and Monaco. His recent assignment in southern France occurred during what was arguably the most difficult period for Franco-American relations since the conclusion of World War II. All of his diplomatic skills were called upon to carry out his bilateral duties with local, regional and national politicians, top military officials, university presidents, professors and students, editors and reporters, business leaders, law enforcement officials and community and religious leaders. Marseille, where McBee’s Consulate was located, is France’s oldest (2600 years) and second largest city. In the course of his postings, McBee has performed many roles: as Mission spokesperson and press liaison; refugee liaison officer for Vietnamese “boat people”; and Embassy treaty representative on Law of the Sea issues surrounding the USS Alabama. In addition to these roles, McBee has directed political, economic, commercial, consular and public diplomacy sections; managed and designed professional and academic exchanges for Europe, North Africa, the Near East, and South Asia; served as editor-in-chief for a policy oriented Serbo-Croatian magazine; designed and executed democracy building programs in the developing world; and designed cultural diplomacy programs around the cultural figures Ella Fitzgerald, John Irving, Elizabeth Taylor, Bob Dylan, Toni Morrison, Sydney Lumet, and Tom Cruise. Leslie McBee is the recipient of numerous Department of State Superior Honor and Meritorious Honor Awards. In addition to France, McBee has served at Embassies or Consulates in Italy, both Congos (Brazzaville and Kinshasa), Finland, Fiji (where he was accredited to 4 Pacific Island Nations), the former Yugoslavia, and Malaysia. He was also a Peace Corps Volunteer, and spent two years in a small village in Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa. He is a native Californian who finished high school in Tehran, Iran, subsequently graduating from the University of San Francisco and Columbia University in New York. His languages include French, Serbo-Croatian, Italian, and Finnish.
Ananya Roy Ananya Roy is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the Division of International & Area Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She also serves as Education Director of the Blum Center for Developing Economies. Roy’s home department is the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley where she teaches in the fields of comparative urban studies and international development. In 2006, Roy was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award, the highest teaching honor UC Berkeley bestows on its faculty. Also in 2006, Roy was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Mentors award, a recognition bestowed by the Graduate Assembly at UC Berkeley. Most recently, in 2008, Roy was the recipient of the Golden Apple Teaching award, the only teaching award given by the student body. Dr. Roy holds a B.A. (1992) in Comparative Urban Studies from Mills College, a M.C.P. (1994) and a Ph.D. (1999) from the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) and co-editor of Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America (Lexington Books, 2004). Her current research and book project is entitled Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Frontiers of Millennial Development (Routledge, forthcoming). The project has received several prestigious awards including the Hellman Faculty Award and the Prytanean Faculty Award, as well as a multi-year research grant from the National Science Foundation.	Theogene Rudasingwa Theogene Rudasingwa is Vice President, Global Affairs and Global Projects Specialist for Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation. In this role, Dr. Rudasingwa is responsible for establishing and developing Pangaea’s global partnerships with organizations engaged in large scale HIV/AIDS treatment delivery. He also serves as a key member of Pangaea project teams, working with in-country partners to maximize the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS treatment programs and provides leadership to Pangaea’s fundraising and development efforts, while managing the organization’s external relations. Dr. Rudasingwa graduated from the School of Medicine at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda in 1990. He was a leader in the Rwandese Patriotic Front from 1990 to 1996, working to stop the genocide and save lives and then playing a key role in the establishment of the new government. From 1996 to 1999, he was the first Ambassador to the United States in post-genocide Rwanda, helping to shape the country’s new relationship with the U.S. Dr. Rudasingwa was Chief of Staff for the Office of the Vice President of Rwanda in 1999, before becoming Chief of Staff to the Office of the President of Rwanda from 2000 to 2004. In this position, he worked closely with senior Rwandan government official to develop and implement a strategic vision for Rwanda and its people. He was responsible for the establishment a new Office of the President, including infrastructure, staffing, processes and protocols for innovative government. Dr. Rudasingwa earned a Masters of Arts in International Affairs at Tufts University in 2006. From 2004 to 2006, he was also a lecturer and visiting scholar with the Haas Business School at the University of California, Berkeley where he was Director of Bridging the Divide, an initiative to support sustainable development in the developing world. Dr. Rudasingwa received an honorary Ph.D. from Trinity College in 1999 for his leadership and contribution to the positive changes that have taken place in Rwanda. He also received the “Global Leader for Tomorrow Award” from the World Economic Forum in 2001, honoring him for “leadership in difficult times and his contribution to peace and prosperity for all humanity.”	Stephen M. Shortell Dr. Stephen M. Shortell is the Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management and Professor of Organization Behavior at the School of Public Health and the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Dean of the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. Dr. Shortell also holds appointments in the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley and at the Institute for Health Policy Research at the University of California, San Francisco. A leading health care scholar, Dr. Shortell, has been the recipient of many awards including the distinguished Baxter-Allegiance Prize for his contributions to health services research, the Gold Medal Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives for his contributions to the health care field, and the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Association for Health Services Research. He and his colleagues have also received the George R. Terry Book of the Year Award from the Academy of Management, the James R. Hamilton Book of the Year Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives, and several article of the year awards from the American College of Healthcare Executives and the National Institute for Health Care Management. His most recent book (with colleagues) is entitled Remaking Health Care in America: The Evolution of Organized Delivery Systems. Dr. Shortell is the past editor of Health Services Research, an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences; has served as President of the Association for Health Services Research; and is a past Chairman of the Accrediting Commission for Graduate Education in Health Services Administration. Dr. Shortell received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame, his masters degree in public health from UCLA, and his Ph.D. in the behavioral sciences from the University of Chicago.