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CSFP PEOPLE...One of the biggest areas of change in the past year was in the composition of theCommission itself. In total, nine new members were appointed, as the result ofretirements and a policy of bringing membership up to the legal limit of 15. The newmembers were appointed in accordance with the Code of Practice on PublicAppointments. The aim was to recruit individuals who combine academic excellencewith direct experience of international development.Meeting award holders at first hand : (above)Commission Deputy Chair Professor William Hill;(right top) Professor Trudy Harpham and (rightbelow) Professor Tim ShawThe most significant change, in December, was the appointment of a new Chair.Professor Trudy Harpham, Professor of Urban Development and Policy at SouthBank University, has over twenty years’ experience of applied development studiesembracing health, social, education, poverty and infrastructure projects. A member ofthe Commission for five years, she has successfully supervised more than 20 doctoralstudents. She replaces Dr Geoffrey Caston, former Vice-Chancellor of the Universityof the South Pacific, whose term of office expired in December 2001.The new look Commission includes three members with experience of directing highereducation institutions. Professor Colin Bundy is Director of the School of Orientaland African Studies, having formerly been Vice-Chancellor of the University of theWitwatersrand in South Africa.In addition to his first handexperience of higher educationand development issues inSouthern Africa, he serves onthe Universities UKInternational Strategy Group.Professor Maxwell Irvineprovides another valuable linkwith the UK system, through hisroles on the Universities UK/Foreign and CommonwealthOffice Steering Group. Aformer Vice-Chancellor of theUniversities of Aberdeen andBirmingham, he is currentlyworking on the promotion ofscience at the University ofManchester.Professor David Johns whosebackground is in charteredengineering has experience asDirector of the (now) CityUniversity of Hong Kong andthe University of Bradford. Hehas widespread experience ofdeveloping countries, through project work for the former Overseas DevelopmentAdministration and British Council. His other policy interests are knowledge transfer,economic regeneration, health and continuing education.Other new recruits have an even more direct link with development issues. SharonHuttly is a Reader in International Child Health and Development at the LondonSchool of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is also Teaching Programme Directorfor the School, with responsibility for overseeing the development of both Londonbased and distance learning postgraduate courses. She has previously undertaken workfor the World Health Organisation, World Bank, Department for InternationalDevelopment and United Nations agencies.Professor Gurharpal Singh has recently been appointed Nadir Dinshaw Professor ofInter-Religious Relations at the University of Birmingham, having previously beenProfessor of Indian Politics at the University of Hull. His main interests are in theCSC Annual Report page 20
...THE COMMISSIONfield of religious and ethnic conflict, democratisation, multiculturalism and interreligiousrelations.Professor Martin Snaith also has a long standing commitment to development issues,specialising in the management and development of highway networks. Systemsdeveloped by his centre at the University of Birmingham have been widely adopted indeveloping countries, often with DFID support. The centre has also been responsiblefor training over 600 post graduate students, including senior civil servants andeducationalists from around the world.Other new appointments have combined development expertise with a particularinterest in Commonwealth affairs. Dr Hilary Perraton spent ten years at theCommonwealth Secretariat where he was closely involved with the establishment ofthe Vancouver based Commonwealth of Learning organisation; he was also closelyinvolved with distance learning policy as an educational planner at the University ofthe West Indies, and as Founding Director of the International Research Foundationfor Open Learning, and written several authoritative texts in the field.Professor John Morgan is Chairman of the new Commonwealth EducationDocumentation Centre at the University of Nottingham, where he is also Director ofthe Centre for Comparative Education Research. He has long standing interests ineducation and development, with experience in Africa (particularly Nigeria) and Asia.He serves on the executive committees of the British Association for International andComparative Education, and the Council for Education in the Commonwealth.Professor Tim Shaw is the Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies inLondon, where his expertise lies in the area of governance and development. He hasthe distinction of gaining degrees on three continents – including a Masters degree atMakerere University in Uganda. He has taught in Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda,Zambia and Zimbabwe, as well as Canada and the United Kingdom, and remains aVisiting Professor at both Makerere University and the University of Stellenbosch.The new appointments join five existing Commission members. Of these, ProfessorWilliam Hill, until recently Dean of Science at the University of Edinburgh, hasrecently been appointed Deputy Chair. Professor Hill has broad interests in the fieldsof biology and agriculture. His many honours include a Fellowship of the RoyalSociety, and appointment as a panel Chair in the most recent national ResearchAssessment Exercise.Another member based in Scotland, Professor Jang Dilawari is a ConsultantPhysician and Gastroenterologist at Invercylde Royal Hospital, who in addition tomedical expertise brings first hand knowledge of provision in the Indian sub-continent.Continuing the discussion: (from the top) ProfessorJohn Morgan, Professor Martin Snaithand Professor David JohnsThe three remaining Commission members were appointed in the last round ofselections, in 2000, and all support the growing emphasis on developing country work.Caren Levy works for the Development Planning Unit at University College London,specialising in urban policy and planning and the institutionalisation of social justice indevelopment, particularly in respect of gender issues.Dr Derek Miles was until recently Director of the Institute of DevelopmentEngineering at the University of Loughborough. In a prolific career embracing boththe private and university sector, he has worked in over 50 countries as a consultantand adviser on construction industry development, and has been author or co-author of19 books and over 100 articles and papers.Dr Pat Richardson’s expertise lies in the development of small business andenterprise, with particular emphasis on gender issues. Her 20 years’ experience largelyat the Foundation for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development – at theUniversity of Durham, have involved direct work with institutions in South Africa,Lesotho, Tanzania, Malawi, Kenya, Jordan, China, India and Bangladesh. She has alsoundertaken several projects for DFID and other international aid agencies.CSC Annual Report page 21
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