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Issue 5: November - December 2000 |
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New Directors Appointed
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Professor Tony Shorrocks |
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Photo by Kimmo Brandt |
Professor Tony Shorrocks will take over as Director of UNU/WIDER on January 1, 2001. Professor Shorrocks is currently a Visiting Professor at New Economic School in Moscow and Research Professor at the University of Essex.
Professor Shorrocks is a leading scholar in the field of income
distribution. His research has focused in particular on the methods of
measuring and analyzing inequality, poverty, income mobility and living
standards. Numerous papers on these topics have appeared in international
economic journals including Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies,
Economic Journal and Economica.
More recently he has been working on the social problems facing Russia in the post reform era. In 1996 he was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
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| Professor Zakri Hamid |
Professor Zakri Hamid, currently Deputy Vice Chancellor at the
National University of Malaysia, will become Director
of UNU/IAS at the beginning of next year.
Prof. Zakri received his Ph.D. in Genetics and Plant Breeding from
Michigan
State University in 1976. Since then he has worked at the National
University of Malaysia, where he was made a full professor in 1986. He has
published extensively on the issues of genetics, plant breeding,
biotechnology and biodiversity.
Increasingly in recent years he was worked as an academic administrator at
the National University of Malaysia. He has served as the head of
department
of genetics, dean of faculty of life sciences and, since 1992, as deputy
vice chancellor.
Prof Zakri also has extensive policy experience at the national and
international levels. Since 1999, he has been the interim
Chair
of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a major undertaking to assess the
world's ecosystems.
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