China-India Initiative Research Collaborators
The emerging China-India project at GEI brings together some of the foremost
scholars on Asia, human development, economics, and public health. These researchers
will come together to shape, direct, and execute the important work of this
new initiative.
Sudhir Anand is a world recognized development microeconomist. He has published
widely on inequality, poverty, and undernutrition; human development;
population ethics; health economics; and the theory and measurement of
economic inequality. After finishing graduate studies, Professor Anand
joined the Faculty of Economics at Oxford University, where he is currently
Professor of Economics. He was on the faculty at the Harvard University
School of Public Health as a Visiting Professor in 1993-94, and as Adjunct
Professor thereafter. From 1997 to 1999, he served as Acting Director
of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies where he
led a research initiative exploring the theory and measurement of health
equity. Professor Anand recently chaired the WHO committee on global health
systems performance assessment. He received his MA in mathematics and
D.Phil. in economics from the University of Oxford.
Sudhir's Publications
Lincoln Chen is an internationally recognized expert on international public health and has published extensively on world social development, especially in health, population, and food and nutrition. Dr. Chen founded the Global Equity Initiative in 2001 when he returned to Harvard after serving five years as Executive Vice President for Strategy of the Rockefeller Foundation. From 1987 to 1996, Dr. Chen was Taro Takemi Professor of International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and Director of the university-wide Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. From 1973 to 1987, Dr. Chen was with the Ford Foundation, first on its staff in Bangladesh when he was seconded as Scientific Director of the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research and later as Representative in India. Dr. Chen has an MD from Harvard Medical School, and MPH from Johns Hopkins. Dr. Chen recently left his position as Founding Director of GEI to assume the Presidency of the China Medical Board of New York, a renown grant-making organization. He remains active as a Research Associate at GEI, focusing on the NGO Forum Program as well as the emerging China and India Program.
Lincoln's Publications
Lincoln's CV
Tony Saich is the Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and Director of the GEI as well as the Harvard University Asia Center. He is Faculty Chair of the Asia Programs and the China Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. This work includes significant training programs for national and local officials from China, including a program to help Beijing officials prepare for the Olympics. He also sits on the Executive Committees of the Fairbank Center and the Universitys Asia Center. From 1994 until July 1999, he was the Representative for the China Office of the Ford Foundation. Prior to this he was the director of the Sinological Institute, Leiden University, the Netherlands. He first visited China as a student in 1976-77 and has been there for longer or shorter trips almost each year since. Currently, he is also a guest Professor at the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, China. He has advised a wide range of government, private and not-for-profit organizations on work in China and elsewhere in Asia. He is a member of the Trustees of the China Medical Board of New York and International Bridges to Justice. His current research focuses on the interplay between state and society in China and the respective roles they play in the provision of public goods and services at the local level. He has written several books on developments in China. His primary focus at GEI is the emergent China and India Program.
Tony's CV - from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor at Harvard University and former Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University, UK, won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. He has devoted much of his professional life to poverty alleviation, developing human capabilities, promoting equity, and building freedom. He has received widespread recognition for his work in welfare economics, which has included the development of the theory of social choice, increasing understanding of the theoretical foundation for comparing societies’ welfare distributions, and new definitions and measures of welfare and poverty. Professor Sen’s important conceptual work has also dealt with methods of collective decision-making. His research has included empirical studies of poverty and famine in Bangladesh, India, and the Sahara. Although he is an economist, Professor Sen has not been constrained in his research and policy studies by the boundaries of the discipline; he has turned to any field that could contribute to understanding the problems that he has addressed. Professor Sen was named Master at Trinity College in 1998. Prior to this position, he spent more than ten years at Harvard University where he was named the Lamont University Professor. Before joining the faculty at Harvard, he held Professorships at Oxford University, the London School of Economics, the Delhi School of Economics, and Jadavpur University in Calcutta. Professor Sen received his B.A. and PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge University.
Amartya's CV - from the Harvard University Department of Economics