AUTHOR
Duncan Green
Head of Research at Oxfam Great Britain
Mr. Green was previously a Senior Policy Adviser on Trade and
Development at the Department for International Development (DFID),
where he covered agricultural and non-agricultural trade in goods.
He went to DFID on secondment from CAFOD, the Catholic aid agency
for England and Wales, where he was a Policy Analyst on trade and
globalization. Prior to going to DFID, he was also Head of Research
and Engagement at the Just Pensions project on socially responsible
investment, an advisory board member of the Globalisation and
Poverty Programme, and a board member of the Ethical Trading
Initiative.
DISCUSSANT
John Sewell
Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Chair, Board of New Rules for Global Finance
Mr. Sewell's current research analyses how globalization has
affected the American national interests in the developing world and
the changes in U.S. development policy that are needed to deal with
the challenges of the 21st Century. He has recently published a
Wilson Center policy paper entitled The Realpolitik of Ending
Poverty: An Action Plan for American Foreign Policy. Mr. Sewell is
the former President of the Overseas Development Council (ODC). He
has written extensively on globalization and development issues and
on American foreign, and advises several projects dealing with
reform of the international finance and trade architecture. In
addition, he serves as Chair the Board of New Rules for Global
Finance, a Washington-based NGO working on reform of the
international financial institutions.
Additional panelists to be confirmed.
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