Navroz K. Dubash is a Senior Associate in the Institutions and Governance Program at the World Resources Institute. His current work explores the impact of financial globalization on problems of environment and development as part of WRI's International Financial Flows and the Environment (IFFE) project. Most recently, he co-authored: Will international investment rules obstruct climate protection policies?, The Right Conditions: The World Bank, Structural Adjustment, and Forest Policy Reform, and Leverage for the Environment: A Guide to the Private Financial Services Industry. Prior to joining WRI, he served with the Environmental Defense Fund as coordinator of the international Climate Action Network. His past research on international environmental policy examined institutional mechanisms for development assistance related to climate change, and the implications of market-based carbon emission reduction programs for developing countries. Dr. Dubash is an Indian national with research and work experience at the local level in India as well as international policy levels. In India, he has worked on local institutions for management of groundwater resources. His forthcoming book, Tubewell Capitalism, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2001. He holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and an A.B. in public policy from Princeton University.
Mairi Dupar is an Associate in the Institutions and Governance Program at the World Resources Institute. Her current work seeks to improve local livelihoods through better management of natural resources in the uplands of mainland Southeast Asia as part of the Resources Policy Support Initiative (REPSI). She has a particular focus on equity and gender issues in land use planning and watershed management. Before joining WRI, Ms. Dupar created a Media and Communications program at The Global Fund for Women, a grantmaking organization, and led an outreach effort on international women's rights and development issues. Ms. Dupar holds Masters degrees in Asian Studies and Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. She has six years' experience in freelance radio and print reporting. She conducted field-based research on livelihood options for female migrants in Indonesia's urban informal sector.
Smitu Kothari is one of the founders of Lokayan ("Dialogue of the People"), a centre in India promoting active exchange between non-party political formations and concerned scholars and other citizens from India and the rest of the world. At Lokayan, he coordinates research and campaigns on political, ecological and cultural issues and co-edits the Lokayan Bulletin. He is a member of the Indian Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace, President of the International Group for Grassroots Initiatives, and has been a visiting professor at Cornell and Princeton universities. He has published extensively on contemporary economic and cultural development, the relationship of nature, culture and democracy, developmental displacement and social movements. On the editorial Boards of Development and Ecologist, he has edited In Search of Democratic Space (2001), Out of the Nuclear Shadow (with Zia Mian, 2001), Rethinking Human Rights: Challenges for Theory and Action (1991), and The Non-Party Political Process: Uncertain Alternatives (with H. Sethi, 1988).
Tundu Lissu is a researcher and activist from Tanzania whose areas of interest have been in environmental and natural resource policies and their implications on rural rights and livelihoods. He has researched and written on issues of nature conservation and the rights of pastoralist peoples, mining and land tenure rights of rural peoples and communities. He was recently appointed Commissioner of the Africa Jubilee 2000 Movement, a global coalition of NGOs and activists who seek an end to Africa's crippling foreign debt burden. He is currently a Research Fellow at the World Resources Institute. He holds a masters degree in law from the School of Law, University of Warwick, United Kingdom, and an LLB from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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