Joint Statement of IPD Experts on Global Burden-Sharing for Climate Change

About the Authors

Frank Ackerman
Stockholm Environmental Institute

Clive Agnew
Head of School of Environment and Development
The University of Manchester, School of Environment and Development

Amar Bhattacharya
Director
G24 Secretariat

Amar Bhattacharya has been director of the G-24 Secretariat since 2007. Before, he was senior advisor for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network at the World Bank, where he was responsible for coordinating the Bank’s work on international financial architecture. Since joining the World Bank in 1979, he has had a long-standing involvement in East Asia, including as division chief for country operations in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific. Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked as an international economist with the First National Bank of Chicago.

Charlotte Billingham
Foundation for European Progressive Studies

John Broome
Professor
University of Oxford

Michelle Chan
Friends of the Earth

Kevin Conrad
Executive Director
Rainforest Coalition

Zhiyuan Cui
Professor, Public Policy and Management
Tsinghua University

Jose Maria Figueres
Former President of Costa Rica

Luis Miguel Galindo
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

Ato Newai Gebre-Ab
Economic Adviser to Prime Minister;
Government of Ethiopia

Stephany Griffith-Jones
Financial Markets Program Director
Initiative for Policy Dialogue

Stephany Griffith-Jones is Financial Markets Program Director at IPD, as well as an economist whose areas of expertise include global capital flows to emerging markets and international financial reform; macro-economic management of capital flows in Latin America, Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa; and international financial reform with special emphasis on regulation (Basel II, hedge funds and derivatives). Prior to joining IPD, Professor Griffith-Jones was Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at University of Sussex and served as Senior Official at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the Economic Commission of Latin America (ECLAC), and as Head of International Finance at the Commonwealth Secretariat. She has acted as senior consultant to governments in Eastern Europe and Latin America and to many international agencies, including the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the United Nations (especially UNDP and ECLAC). She began her career at the Central Bank of Chile and since then has published many articles and books including International Finance and Development with Jose Antonio Ocampo and Jan Kregel. She received the Association of Latin American Financial Institutions prize for best essay on Latin America's international finance.

Robert Hahn
Professor
Sustainable Consumption Institute
University of Manchester

Sivan Kartha
Director of the Climate and Energy Programme
Stockholm Institute

Martin Khor
Executive Director
South Centre

Louis Lemkow
Professor
Barcelona Autonomous University

Mohan Munasinghe
Chairman
Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND)

Deepak Nayyar
Vice Chancellor
University of Delhi

Deepak Nayyar is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has taught at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex, the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C), and the New School for Social Research, New York. He was Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi from 2000 to 2005.

Akbar Noman
Senior Policy Fellow
Initiative for Policy Dialogue

Akbar Noman is an economist with wide-ranging experience of policy analysis and formulation in a variety of developing and transition economies, having worked extensively for the World Bank where he was Senior Economist for Ethiopia and an influential adviser to the government. He combines teaching at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs with being a Senior Fellow at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue. His other academic appointments have been at Oxford University (where he was also a student) and the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.

Kirit Parikh
Indira Gandhi Institute

Manoj Roy
Researcher
Brooks World Poverty Institute

Ambuj Sagar
Professor of Policy Studies
Indian Institute of Technology

Wolfram Schlenker
Columbia University

Willi Semmler
Professor
Economics
New School for Social Research

Stephen Spratt
Researcher
Globalization Team
Institute of Development Studies

Dr Stephen Spratt's research interests relate to development finance, financial sector reform and regulation, socially responsible investment (SRI), the emerging climate change financing architecture and the intersection between these issues. Professionally, he has been Head of the Sustainable Markets Group at IIED, Research Director at the New Economics Foundation and a Lecturer in international finance and development at the University of Reading. He has also worked in the private sector in the City of London, as Head of Research at Intelligence Capital Limited, Senior Investment analyst with Global Asset Management Limited and a Visiting Fellow in the Global Research Department at State Street Bank & Trust.

Stephen holds a BA from the University of East Anglia, an MSc from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and a DPhil from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

Nicholas Stern
Director
Asia Research Centre
London School of Economics

Joseph Stiglitz
Co-President
Initiative for Policy Dialogue

Joseph E. Stiglitz is co-founder and Executive Director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, for which he also co-chairs the macroeconomics, Capital Market Liberalization, and Intellectual Property task forces. Dr. Stiglitz holds joint professorships at Columbia University's Economics Department and its Business School. From 1997 to 2000 he was the World Bank's Senior Vice President for Development Economics and Chief Economist. From 1995- 97 he served as Chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers and as a member of President Clinton's cabinet. From 1993 to 1995 he was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. He was previously a professor of economics at Stanford, Princeton, Yale, and All Souls College. Dr. Stiglitz is a leading scholar of the economics of the public sector and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001 in addition to the American Economic Association's biennial John Bates Clark Award in 1979. His work has been recognized through his election as a fellow to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, and the British Academy.

Hirofumi Uzawa
Professor
Doshisha University