Jan.,
2008
CURRICULUM VITAE
Stephen C. Smith
Position: Professor of
Economics and International Affairs
Director, Research Program in
Poverty, Development, and Globalization
Chair, Economics Ph.D.
Committee (Unit I)
The
Office Address:
Prof. Stephen C. Smith
Department of Economics,
Monroe Hall 306 (
The
(tel.) 202‑994‑8086 (fax) 202‑994‑6147
(e‑mail) ssmith@gwu.edu
Personal web page:
http://home.gwu.edu/~ssmith
Citizenship:
Home Address:
Education:
Ph.D., Economics,
M.A., Economics,
B.A., Liberal Arts,
Selected Fellowships:
Fulbright Research Scholarship, Jean Monnet Research Fellowship
Current Editorship:
Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization
Selected Consultancies:
World Bank (IBRD)
International Labour Office
(ILO,
World Institute for
Development Economics Research (UN‑WIDER)
Small
Selected On‑Site
Country Research and Consulting Experience:
Developing:
OECD:
Books and Reports
Economic Development, 10th Edition, with Michael Todaro,
http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0321278887,00.html
NGOs
and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty, co-edited with Jennifer
Brinkerhoff and
Ending Global Poverty: A
Guide to What Works,
Blooming Together or
Wilting Alone? Organizational Comparative Advantage, Network Externalities, and
Mondragon and La Lega Cooperative Networks, Paper No. 2001/27, 55 pp., World Institute of Development Economics
Research (WIDER),
Human Capital Convergence
- International Evidence, with Randa
Sab, IMF Working Paper 01/32,
Privatization and Public‑Private
Competitions: Lessons from State and Local Government, Report CRM D0000459.A2/Final,
Case Studies in Economic
Development, 2d Edition,
The Firm, Human
Development, and Market Failure, ILO
Labour Market Paper #10,
Labour Participatory
Economy, ed. with
Labour Managed Market
Economies, ed. with S. Mahalingham,
J.E. Askildsen, and D. Vaughan‑Whitehead, Mittal, 1993
Industrial Policy in
Developing Countries: Reconsidering the Real Sources of Export‑Led Growth, Economic Policy Institute, 1991
Journal Articles:
“Endogenous Formation of
Coops and Cooperative Leagues,” with Sumit Joshi, forthcoming Journal of
Economic Behavior and Organization
"What Factors Lead
Management to Support or Oppose Employee Participation‑ with and without
Works Councils? Hypotheses and Evidence
from
"Works Councils and
Environmental Investment: Theory and Evidence from German Panel Data,"
with Jan Erik Askildsen and Uwe Jirjahn, Volume 60, Issue 3, 346-372, 2006, Journal
of Economic Behavior and Organization
"Employee Participation
Rights in Corporate Governance: Economic Rationale, a Test of a Leading Theory,
and Some Modest Policy Proposals," Advances in the Economic Analysis of
Participatory and Labor Managed Firms, Elsevier, 105-146, Vol. 9, 2006
"New Issues in Emerging
Markets: Determinants, Effects, and Stock Market Performance of Initial Public
Offerings in
2, 3, 253‑285, December
2003
"A Tale of Two Tigers:
Employee Financial Participation in
"Village Banking and
Maternal and Child Health: Evidence from
"Human Capital
Convergence: A Joint Estimation Approach," with Randa Sab, IMF Staff
Papers, 49, 2, 200‑211, August 2002
"Employee Stock
Ownership and Participation in
"Investment, Exports,
and Output in
"Investment and Supply
Effects of Industry‑Indexed Bonds: The Labor Managed Firm," with
Robert Waldmann, Economic Systems, 23, 3, 245‑268, 1999
"Prospects for Research
on Participation," Economic Analysis: Journal of
"Post‑Privatization
Duopolies: On Equilibria and Deterrence among Labor Managed and Conventional
Firms," with Ahmed Keshk, Advances in the Economic Analysis of
Participatory and Labor Managed Firms, Vol. 6, 163‑186, 1998
"Privatization
Incidence, Ownership Forms, and Firm Performance: Evidence from
"The Health‑Development
Link: Microenterprise Development for Positive Health Outcomes," with R.
Rodriguez‑Garcia, J. Macinko and B. Schwethelm, International Affairs
Review, 63‑79, Spring 1996
"Employee Participation
in
"Firm Size and the
Effect of Profit‑Sharing," with M.D. Bradley, J. Inst. Public
"Innovation and Market
Strategy in Italian Industrial Cooperatives: Econometric Evidence on
Organizational Comparative Advantage," Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization, 23, 3, 303‑321, 1994
"On the Law and
Economics of Employee Ownership in Privatization in Developing and Transition
Economies," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 65, 3, 437‑468,
1994
"The Ownership Reform of
Township
"The Political Economy
of the Maryland Biotechnology Industrial District," with Harvey
Feigenbaum, Business and the Contemporary World, 5, 105‑118,
Autumn 1993
"Labor‑Managed
Cooperatives and Private Firms in North‑Central
"Optimal Internal
Investment in a Labor‑Managed Firm with Heterogeneous Membership: An
Overlapping Generations Approach," with M.H. Ye and M. Conte, Journal
of Comparative Economics, 16, 479‑493, 1992
"The Comparative
Institutions of Profit Sharing: The
"On the Economic
Rationale for Codetermination Law," Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization, 16, 261‑281, Dec. 1991
"Financial Repression
and Real Output: Macroeconometric Evidence from
"Allocation and Distribution
in an Employee‑Owned Firm under Both Output and Labor Market
Uncertainty," with M.H. Ye, Economic Analysis, 26 (2), 115‑136,
1991
"On the Incidence of
Profit and Equity Sharing: Theory and an Application to the High Tech
Sector," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 9, 45‑58,
1988
"On Illyrian
Macroeconomics," with M. D. Bradley, Economica, 55, 249‑260,
1988
"Dynamic Allocation in a
Labor‑Managed Firm," with M.H. Ye, Journal of Comparative
Economics, 12, 204‑216, 1988
"Employment, Prices and
Money in the Share Economy: An Alternative View," with M. D. Bradley, Advances
in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor Managed Firms, 3, 201‑208
(1988)
"The Behavior of Labor‑Managed
Firms under Uncertainty: Product Diversification, Income Insurance and Layoff
Policy," with M.H. Ye, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics,
57, 65‑82, 1987
"Some Microeconomic
Analysis of Income‑Sharing Firms," with M. D. Bradley, Advances
in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor Managed Firms, 2, 91‑111,
1987
"Political Behavior as
an Economic Externality: Econometric
Evidence on the Spillover of Participation in
"Does Employment Matter
to the Labor Managed Firm? Some Theory
and an Empirical Illustration," Economic Analysis, 18, 303‑318,
1984
"Multinational
Corporations and the
"The Economics of Joint
Ventures in Less Developed Countries," with J. Svejnar, The Quarterly
Journal of Economics, 98, 149‑168, 1984
"The Economics of Joint
Ventures in Centrally Planned and Labor‑Managed Economies," with J.
Svejnar, Journal of Comparative Economics, 5, 148‑172, 1982
Selected Book Chapters,
Policy Articles, Commentaries, and Other Publications
“Organizational Comparative Advantages of NGOs in
Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger: Strategy for Escape from Poverty
Traps,” in NGOs and the Millennium
Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty, Jennifer Brinkerhoff,
Stephen C. Smith and Hildy Teegen, eds.
“Beyond the 'Non': The
Strategic Space for NGOs in Development,” with J. Brinkerhoff and H. Teegen, in
NGOs and the
Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty, Jennifer Brinkerhoff,
Stephen C. Smith and Hildy Teegen, eds.
“The Role of NGOs in Health, Education,
Environment, and Gender: Application of the Theoretical Framework,” with J. Brinkerhoff and H. Teegen, in NGOs and the Millennium
Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty, Jennifer Brinkerhoff,
Stephen C. Smith and Hildy Teegen, eds.
“Conclusions and Policy Implications,” with J. Brinkerhoff and H. Teegen, in NGOs and the Millennium
Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty, Jennifer Brinkerhoff, Stephen
C. Smith and Hildy Teegen, eds.
“Protecting the Poor from Climate Change,”
“The Millennium Development Goals and the Struggle
Against Poverty Traps,” United Nations Economic and Social Council, Meeting on
“Eradicating poverty and hunger – Joining forces to make it happen,” United
Nations, New York, Monday, 2 April 2007,
http://www.un.org/docs/ecosoc/meetings/2007/amr2007/index.shtml
http://www.un.org/docs/ecosoc/meetings/2007/amr2007/Stephen%20Smith.pdf
“Special Event on Poverty Traps: Background Note,”
in International Forum on the Eradication of Poverty, Report of the Meeting,
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/poverty/PovertyForum/Documents/forum.report.pdf
“Poverty Traps: Why the Poor Stay Poor,”
“Ending Extreme Poverty: Securing Human Rights Can
Be Decisive” (with Tony Castleman), (in Spanish) Letras Libres, April
2006. Reprinted, in Ius Inter Gentes , a
“Poverty Traps and Global Development,” The
Globalist, Monday, May 15, 2006
http://theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=5032
“How to Help the Poor Out of Poverty,” The
Globalist, Tuesday, May 16, 2006
http://theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=5041
“Ending Extreme Poverty:
Three Innovations from
“Has the Development
Community Overinvested in Microfinance?” Global Future, Fourth Quarter
(December), 2005, 20-22, also available online at http://www.globalfutureonline.org/PolicyAdvocacy/GlblFutr.nsf/currentissue/current
“Q & A with Stephen C.
Smith,” World Ark Online, Heifer International, 2005,
http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.1162061/
“Will the G8 Summit at
Gleneagles Ultimately Help
"Governance of Nongovernmental
Organizations: A Framework and Application to Poverty Programs in
"Network Externalities
and Co‑operative Networks: Stylized Facts and Theory," chapter 7 of Ownership
and Governance of Enterprises, a UN‑WIDER volume edited by Laixiang
Sun, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. 181-201
"Network Externalities
and Co‑operative Networks: A Comparative Case Study of Mondragon and La
Lega With Implications for Developing and Transition Countries," chapter 8
of Ownership and Governance of Enterprises, a UN‑WIDER volume
edited by Laixiang Sun, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. 202-241
"Globalization and
Poverty Reduction in
"Microcredit and Health
Programs: To Integrate or Not to Integrate?" in Rosalia Rodriguez‑Garcia,
James Macinko, and William Waters, ed., Microenterprise Development for
Better Health Outcomes, (Contributions to Economics and Economic History),
Westport, CT: Greenwood, 41‑50, 2001
"The Potential Role of
Employee Stock Ownership Plans in Korean Restructuring: Lessons from Korean
ESOAs, US ESOPs and other Experience," with Beomcheol Cin, International
Symposium on Employee Stock Ownership Plans (KLI‑World Bank‑FIET),
"On the Market Failure
Case for Labor Policy to Promote Human Development," in Luis Eugenio Di
Marco, ed., Humanismo Economico y Tecnologia Cientifica, Bases para la
refundacion del analisis economico, pp. 143‑154, Cordoba, Argentina:
Atena Editorial for Ediciones Ciec, Vol. I, 1999
"Discussion of 'Is
Employee Ownership an Unstable Form? Or a Stabilizing Force?'" in Margaret
M. Blair and Thomas A. Kochan, eds., The New Relationship: Human Capital in
the American Corporation, Washington: Brookings, 1999
"Industrial Policy and
Export Success: Third World Development Strategies Reconsidered," in
Robert Blecker, ed.,
"Privatization
Incidence, Firm Performance, and Complementarities and Conflicts Between
Foreign Investment, Employee and other Forms of Ownership:
"Employee
Participation Rights, Training, and Efficiency: Hypotheses and Evidence from
"Property Rights Reform
in
"Employee Ownership in
the Third World: The Law and Economics of a New Trend in Privatization,"
in Marcia Jones, ed., 12th ATWS Proceedings,
"On the Meaning of
Development: Session Report," in R. Rodriguez‑Garcia and A. Goldman,
eds., The Health‑Development Link,
"Worker Participation and
Workplace Public Goods: Some Theory and Attitudinal Evidence from
"A Proposal for an
Industry‑Performance Risk Participation Bond," with R. Waldmann, in
S. Mahalingham, et.al, Labour‑Managed Market Economies,
"Computing
the Impact of Profit Sharing: Econometric Issues and Evidence from the US
Computer Sector," with M.D. Bradley, VI Convegno Scentifico Annuale,
Associazione Italiana per lo Studio dei Sistemi Economici Comparati, Prima
Parte, 114‑137 (1989)
"Programs for
Codetermination and Employee Stock Ownership in
Book Reviews
Review of Nobel Laureate
Muhammad Yunus, “Creating a World without Poverty: Social Business and the
Future of Capitalism,” forthcoming Stanford
Social Innovation Review
Review of Vojmir Franicevic
and Milica Uvalic, eds., "Equality, Participation, Transition," Journal
of Economic Literature, 41, 1, 216‑217, March 2003
Review of Jeff Gates,
"The Ownership Solution: Toward a Shared Capitalism for the 21st
Century," Comparative Economic Studies, 42, 3, 130‑134, Fall
2000
Review of Debraj Ray,
"Development Economics," Journal of Development Economics, 62,
1, 280‑284, June 2000
Review of T.M. Thomas Isaac,
Richard W. Franke, and Pyaralal Raghavan, "Democracy at Work in an Indian
Industrial Cooperative. The Story of Kerala Dinesh Beedi," Journal of
Comparative Economics, 27, 3, 576‑579, Sept. 1999
Review of David I. Levine,
"Reinventing the Workplace: How Business and Employees Can Both Win,"
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 30, 269‑272, 1996
Review of Anthony B. Atkinson,
ed., "Alternatives to Capitalism: The Economics of Partnership. Essays in
Honor of Nobel Laureate James Meade," Journal of Comparative Economics,
20, 368‑371 (1995)
Review of David Ellerman,
"Property and Contract in Economics," Journal of Comparative Economics,
19, 463‑466 (1994)
Review of Michael Porter,
"The Competitive Advantage of Nations," Journal of Development
Economics, 36, 399‑404 (1993)
Review of Michael Albert and
Robin Hahnel, "Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the 21st Century,"
Journal of Comparative Economics, 16, 765‑773 (1992)
Review of Nobel Laureate
James Meade, "Agathatopia: The Economics of Partnership," Journal
of Comparative Economics, 16, 370‑376 (1992)
Review of Assar Lindbeck and
Dennis J. Snower, "The Insider‑Outsider Theory of Employment and
Unemployment," Economic and Industrial Democracy, 11, 582‑585
(1990)
Review of Isher Judge
Ahluwalia, "Industrial Growth in
Selected Conference
Participation:
ARNOVA Conference,
Symposium on New Directions for Research on
Microfinance, April 20, 2007,
United Nations Economic and Social Council, Meeting
on “Eradicating poverty and hunger – Joining forces to make it happen,” United
Nations, New York, Monday, 2 April 2007, presented “The Millennium Development
Goals and the Struggle Against Poverty Traps,”
Development
Management Network Workshop, Annual Meeting, March 2007,
United Nations International
Forum on the Eradication of Poverty (conference marking the end of the First UN
Poverty Decade 1996-2006), New York, Nov. 15-16, 2006; served as invited
session organizer and made presentation, “On Overcoming Poverty Traps,”
Ending
Poverty 101, sponsored by United Nations Association of the Capital Area, International
Affairs Society, United Nations Foundation, and ONE Campaign, Washington,
October 26, 2005, served as panelist
“Ending Global Poverty: A
Guide to What Works,” book launch, The World Bank InfoShop auditorium, July 8, 2005
International Food Policy
Research Institute‑Cornell University Conference on "Threshold
Effects and Non‑Linearities in Growth and Development," IFPRI,
INGOT Roundtable on
“Approaches to Effective Small and Microenterprise Support,” GWU, April 2005,
served as discussant.
Symposium on “The Many Faces
of Poverty,”
Africa Project Conference,
International Institute of Corporate Governance and Accountability,
Twelfth International IAFEP
Conference, St. Mary's University,
Conference on the Role of
NGOs in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals,
Sloan Conference on Corporations,
Markets, and the State: A Multidisciplinary Inquiry Into the Future of Modern
Global Business,
Globalization Conference,
William Patterson University/John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Oct. 2003,
invited panel presentation and closing roundtable participant
Paving the Way Forward for
Rural Finance: International Conference on Best Practice," USAID, session
moderator, "Rural Finance Expansion: Experience in Commercialization,"
June 2003
Special Consultative
Conference on Meeting the Challenges of Poverty and Improved Social Action in
the Americas, IACD/Organization of American States, panel presentation, March
2003
Northeast Universities
Development Conference,
Conference on "Charting
a New Course for Africa in the 21st Century,"
Association for Comparative
Economic Studies panel at ASSA/AEA annual meetings,
Northeast Universities
Development Conference,
North America Summer Meetings
of the Econometric Society,
Conference on "Property
Rights Regimes, Microeconomic Incentives, and Development," World Inst.
Development Economics Research (UN‑WIDER),
Economic Demography Workshop
at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America,
North America Winter Meetings
of the Econometric Society (at ASSA conf.),
Northeast Universities
Development Conference,
Tenth International IAFEP
Conference,
III Encuentro Internacional
de Economia (3rd International Economics Meetings),
Conference on Democracy,
Participation, and Development,
Northeast Universities
Development Conference,
Ninth International IAFEP
Conference,
Brookings‑MIT
Conference on Corporations and Human Capital,
Allied Social Sciences
Association annual meetings,
Northeast Universities
Development Conference,
International Development
Conference,
NEUDC Conference,
Conference on "The
Health‑Development Link: Microenterprise Development for Better Health
Outcomes," Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Ctr,,
Eighth International IAFEP
Conference,
Allied Social Sciences Association
annual meetings,
ICA Strategic Alliances
Regional Conference,
Conference on
"Enterprise Restructuring and Labour Markets,"
Allied Social Sciences
Association annual meetings,
Conference on "Social
and Economic Problems of Ukraine as Transitional Society,"
Southern Economic Association
annual meetings, Orlando, Fl., Nov., 1994, presented a paper
Northeast Universities
Development Conference,
Assoc. of Third World
Studies, annual meetings,
"International Symposium
on Property Rights of Township and Village Enterprises,"
Seventh International IAFEP
Conference,
Conference on "Expanding
Multidisciplinary Approaches in Development," George Washington Univ.,
April 30, 1994, conference organizer/director and discussant
ASSA annual meetings,
Northeast Universities
Development Conference,
Conference on Africa in a
Changing World Economy,
World Bank Symposium on the
International Experience with Employee Ownership,
Annual Conference of the
Profit Sharing Council of America,
Sixth International IAFEP
Conference,
ASSA/CES annual meetings,
"First Conference of the
European Association for Comparative Economic Studies,"
"Conference on Employee
Participation in Company Profits," sponsored by the European Commission,
at the European University Institute, Florence, April 1990, presented a paper
"Symposium on European
Community Institutions and NATO," sponsored by the Fulbright Commission,
South European Economic
Theory Association, Annual Conference, European University Institute,
Italian Association for the
Study of Comparative Economic Systems, Annual Conference, October 1989,
"Global Imbalances:
Alternative Perspectives on the International Economy Conference,"
"Northeast Universities
Development Conference,"
"International
Conference on Profits and Instability," Jerome Levy Economics Institute,
Annandale‑On‑Hudson, March 17‑19, 1989, presented a paper and
served as a discussant
ASSA/Assoc. for Comparative Econ. Studies,
Fifth International IAFEP
Conference,
"Symposium on Self‑Management
and Participatory Decision Making,"
"Symposium on Chinese
Collective Industry," World Bank, Nov. 1986, presented a paper
"Symposium of Profit
Sharing, Worker Ownership and Participation,"
Fourth International IAFEP
Conference, Universite de Liege au Sart‑Tilman,
"Colloquium on the Labor‑Managed
Economy,"
"Hawkins Symposium on
Multinational Corporations and their Host Countries,"
"Conference on Labor
Managed Firms," European University Institute,
Third International IAFEP
Conference,
Selected
Fellowships, Honors and Awards:
Associate
Editor, Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization, from 2007
"Higher
Education for Development in Bangladesh (HEDIB): A Partnership between
GW
Institute for Public Policy: Policy Research Scholar Award, 2004‑2006
Grant
through ESIA to organize conference, "The role of NGOs in achieving the
International Poverty Goals," event held May 2004
Sloan
Foundation Support for research on NGOs in
Title
VI in‑country travel grants, for research in East Africa and
North
American Editor, Economic Analysis, 1997‑2000
Co-investigator,
Agency for International Development grant to evaluate of Project Hope's
"health banks" in
International
Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Senior Scholar Travel
Research/Travel
grant from Economic Policy Institute, to study relationship between German
works councils and codetermination, and job training, Dec. 1992
Banneker
Faculty Research Grant, Summer 1991
Fulbright
research scholarship,
Jean
Monnet Research Fellow, European University Institute (the Ph.D. granting
institution of the European Union),
Dilthey
Faculty Fellowship, Summer 1989
Member,
Executive Council, International Association for the Economics of Participation
(IAFEP), 1988‑2002
Recipient,
GWU Committee on Research Special Research Grant, Fall 1988
Recipient,
George Washington University Columbian College Junior Scholar research award,
summer 1987, GWU
Visiting
Scholar, National Institute for Public Finance and Policy,
Winner,
1986 Association for Comparative Economic Studies Paper Competition
Recipient,
George Washington University Columbian College Junior Scholar research award,
summer 1986
Visiting
Assistant Professor of Economics, European University Institute,
Graduate
Research and Teaching Fellowships,
Courses Taught:
Economic Development Doctoral
Seminar (at George Washington)
Development Economics I:
Micro; Ph.D. level (at George Washington)
Development Economics II:
Macro; Ph.D. level (at George Washington)
Survey of Economic
Development, MA level (at George Washington)
Economics
of Poverty Alleviation (at George Washington)
Dean's Seminar: Global
Poverty‑Causes and Remedies (at George Washington)
Economic Development;
undergraduate level (at George Washington)
Economic Development, Writing
in the Disciplines; undergraduate level (at George Washington)
Survey of Microeconomics
(graduate, at George Washington)
International Economics II
(International Finance); undergraduate (at George Washington)
Intermediate Microeconomics with
Calculus (undergraduate level, at George Washington and Cornell universities)
Economic Development, at
Foreign Service Institute (State Dept.)
Economic Development, for
Multidisciplinary Development
Seminar, capstone course for International Development Studies master's degree
(at George Washington)
Economic Effects of Labor
Management and Profit Sharing, graduate level (at
Transnational Firms and the
World Economy (graduate, at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International
Studies)
Principles of Microeconomics
(at George Washington and Cornell)
University Service
Chair, Economics Ph.D.
Committee (Unit I) and Economics Ph.D. Admissions Committee (2006-2008)
Director, Research Program in
Poverty, Development, and Globalization, Center for Economic Research, 2000‑present,
http://www.gwu.edu/~cer1/Development%20Program.htm
Co‑Coordinator, GW
International Nongovernmental Organization Team (INGOT), 2002‑2007,
http://home.gwu.edu/~scsmith/ingot.htm
Co-Director, GWU-BRACU
exchange
Served as Director,
International Development Studies Program (IDS), 1992‑1996, awarding the
Master of International Development degree in the Elliott School of
International Affairs (ESIA)
Served as Coordinator, 5‑College
IDS Development Committee (designed International Development Studies Program),
1990‑92
Member, IDS Advisory
Committee, 1996‑2003
Member, Advisory Board, GW
Center for Latin American Issues, 2000 to present
Member, Technical Advisory
Committee, GW African Center for Health and Security, 2004 to present
Member, Faculty Senate, 1991‑92
Member, Search Committee,
Dean of the
Chair, Recruiting Committee,
Development Economics, 2001‑2002
Chair, Recruiting Committee,
Development Economics, 1993‑94
Chair, Recruiting Committee,
Development Anthropology, 1992‑93
Member, ESIA Appointments,
Promotion and Tenure committee, 1997‑2002
Member,
Chair, Joint Committee of
Faculty and Students, 1991‑92
Member, Columbian College
Student Faculty Advisory Committee, 1986‑89
Member, Economics Dept.
Strategic Planning Special Committee, 1997‑98
Chair, Economics Dept. Seminar
Committee, 1984‑89, 1990‑96, 1997‑2000
Member, Economics BA
Committee and BA Advisor, 1987‑89, 1990‑93
Member, Economics MA
Committee and MA Advisor, 1986‑89; 1993‑96, 1997‑2006
Served at various times on
the following GW Economics Department committees:
Curriculum
Library
Principles and Graduate
Teaching Assistants
Computer
Special Comm. on Teaching
Loads
Four Economics Department
tenure reading committees
Served at various times on
the following GW Elliott School of International Affairs committees:
Honors,
Awards and Graduation
Committee;
Ad Hoc Committee on Present
and Future Non‑Tenured Appointments
Dean's Council
Appointments, Promotion, and
Tenure
Recruitment committee member
for:
GW Graduate
GW