Dr Navroz Dubash is regarded as one of the leading scholars in the Global Energy Governance field, specifically on the political economy of energy liberalisation and reform with particular attention to the exclusion of social and environmental concerns.  He is presently Professor at the Centre for Policy Research in India and concurrently co-chairs the Global Energy Governance Study Group of the S.T. Lee Project on Global Governance - an initiative of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. 

Dr Dubash was formerly IDFC Chair Professor of Governance and Public Policy at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (New Delhi), and Senior Associate at the World Resources Institute, Washington DC.

His work focuses on the political economy of institutional change and governance reform, with an emphasis on natural resource and service delivery sectors. His current work explores the emergence of regulation as a form of governance in the developing world. This project builds on earlier work on the political economy of electricity liberalization and reform, with particular attention to the exclusion of social and environmental concerns.

His past research has examined emergent mechanisms of global governance with attention to the role of NGOs, the politics of development assistance, climate change policy, groundwater policy, and institutions for local resources management. His book on groundwater markets was awarded the SR Sen Award for Best Book in Rural Development for 2006.

Dr. Dubash holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and an A.B. in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University.

Dr Tikki Pang
Director
Research Policy & Cooperation
World Health Organization (WHO)


Co-Chair
Global Health Governance (GHG) Study Group
S.T. Lee Project on Global Governance

Dr Tikki Pang is a leading practitioner of global health.  He is presently Director of the Research Policy and Cooperation at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva and concurrently co-chairs the Global Health Governance Study Group of the S.T. Lee Project on Global Governance - an initiative of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. 

He was previously Professor of Biomedical Science, Institute of Postgraduate Studies and Research at the University of Malaya in Malaysia and Editor-In-Chief and Publisher of the Asia Pacific Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology.

He has published 6 books and more than 200 scientific articles.  Dr Pang's research and academic interests include prevention and control of infectious diseases, development of research capabilities in developing countries, assessment of health research system performance, impact and application of modern biotechnology on developing economies.

His academic background includes: Bsc (Honours) (First Class) (Biochemistry) Australian National University; PhD (Microbiology&Immunology) John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. His professional accreditations include: FRCPath (Fellow, Royal College of Pathologists, United Kingdom), FIBiol (Fellow, Institute of Biology, United Kingdom), FAAM (Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology, U.S.A.), FAMM (Fellow, Academy of Medicine of Malaysia) and Member, International Molecular Biology Network (IMBN).

Dr Kelley Lee is internationally recognized as a leading scholar in global health governance.  Her research interests focus on the disease impacts of globalisation processes, and the implications raised for global governance with specific interest in global tobacco control, infectious diseases ad health as a foreign policy issue.

She is presently Head of the Public and Environmental Health Research Unit; a Reader in Global Health; and Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Global Change and Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK and concurrently co-chairs the Global Health Governance Study Group of the S.T. Lee Project on Global Governance - an initiative of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. 

Dr. Lee has held major research grants as PI from the Rockefeller Foundation, US National Cancer Institute, Wellcome Trust, European Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and Health Canada.

She has also consulted extensively for WHO, UNICEF, DfID and other bilateral donors including major projects analysing family planning in twelve low-income countries, tobacco control in Southeast Asia, and global health governance. Since 2002, she has led LSHTM’s role in an international consortium to secure and make publicly accessible 8 million pages of internal documents of British American Tobacco.

She has written, edited or co-edited seven books including Health Policy in a Globalising World (Cambridge UP, 2002), Globalization and Health: An introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), Global Change and Health (Open University Press, 2005) and The World Health Organization (Routledge, 2008). She is currently writing a textbook, Global Health and International Relations (Colin McInnes) for Polity Press. She has also published over 40 book chapters and 60 peer-reviewed articles on the global dimensions of public health including papers in Social Science and Medicine, Global Public Health, BMJ, a recent series on trade and health in the Lancet, and a forthcoming series on global health diplomacy in PLoS Medicine.

She holds a BA (double major in International Relations and English Literature), University of British Columbia; MPA (Public Administration), University of Victoria; and MA and DPhil (International Relations), University of Sussex. She was awarded a D.Litt. (Honoris Causa), British Columbia Open University in 2003 for contributions to global health; WHO Certificate of Appreciation for Research on Tobacco Control in 2004; and Fellow through Distinction of the Faculty of Public Health (FFPH), Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom in 2007.

Professor Rodan has written extensively on Singapore’s political and economic development and more generally on democratization and its problems in Asia, as well as on theoretical approaches for understanding development in the region. His recent research includes examination of the political economy of the international media in various parts of East and Southeast Asia, the political impact of the Internet, and the implications of transparency reform in the region for politics.

He is the author of Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia (RoutledgeCurzon 2004), The Political Economy of Singapore’s Industrialization (MacMillan, 1989), the editor of Political Oppositions in Industrializing Asia (Routledge 1996), Singapore Changes Guard (Longman 1993) and Singapore (Ashgate 2001), and the joint editor of The Political Economy of Southeast Asia (Oxford University Press 1997, Revised editions 2001 and 2006) and Southeast Asia in the 1990s: Authoritarianism, Capitalism and Democracy (Allen & Unwin 1993). He has published dozens of book chapters and journal articles, including-recent pieces on the political economy of the international media in Asia in Democratization, Internet and political control in Singapore in Political Science Quarterly and on transparency reform in Singapore and Malaysia in The Pacific Review and New Political Economy. He received his Ph.D. from Murdoch University.

Dr. Khagram is known worldwide for his interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral scholarship, teaching, leadership and management in the areas of nongovernmental organizations and civil society, corporate citizenship and social enterprise, globalization and transnationalism, sustainable development and human security, good governance and institutional design, cross-sectoral problem solving and inter-organizational networks, leadership and strategic management, impact evaluation and learning.

Dr. Khagram was recently selected as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2009. As of September 2008, he became the Wyss Scholar at the Harvard Business School’s Social Enterprise Initiative and the Ratan Tata Chaired Professor in Globalization, Governance and Development at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai India. He holds visiting professorships at the University of Cape Town (South Africa), Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and Viadrina-Humboldt School of Governance (Germany). Khagram previously held faculty positions at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and Stanford University’s Institute for International Studies.

Dr. Khagram is also currently Lead Steward of a social enterprise named iScale/GAN-Net (Innovations for Scaling Impact/Global Action Networks-Net) and Co-Director of the Transnational Studies Initiative at Harvard University. From 2005-2008, Dr. Khagram was the Director of the Marc Lindenberg Center for Humanitarian Action, International Development, and Global Citizenship; the Afghan Leaders Program, Humphrey Fellows Program; and the International Development Certificate Program, as well as a tenured Professor of Public Affairs and International Studies at the University of Washington.

From 2003-2005 he was Dean of the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre, Foundation and Trust, and from 1998-2000 he was Senior Policy and Strategy Director at the World Commission on Dams where he also was lead writer of the Commission’s widely acclaimed Global Impact Evaluation. He was recently offered but graciously declined the positions of Deputy Director for Policy and External Relations in the Gates Foundation Global Development Program and Vice President for Strategy and Research at Business for Social Responsibility.

He has published widely including: Dams and Development, with Cornell University Press; Restructuring World Politics: Transnational Social Movements, Networks and Norms with University of Minnesota Press; The Transnational Studies Reader with Routledge Press; "Inequality and Corruption" in the American Journal of Sociology; "Future Architectures of Global Governance" in Global Governance, "Environment and Security" in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, “Social Balance Sheets” in Harvard Business Review – Latin America, “Evidence for Development Effectiveness” in the Journal of Development Effectiveness, and “Scaling Impact of Global Health Problem Solving,” in Global Health Governance.

Khagram has worked extensively with civil society organizations, social enterprises, cross-sectoral action networks, public-private partnerships, multilateral organizations, government agencies, corporations, professional associations and universities all over the world from the local to the international levels. He has lived and worked for extended periods in Brazil, India, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Thailand, Germany and the United Kingdom. He holds a B.A. in development studies/engineering, an M.A. in economics (from the Food Research Institute), and a Ph.D. in political science, all from Stanford University. Khagram is of Asian Indian heritage, a Hindu, and a third generation refugee from Idi Amin’s Uganda which brought him to the United States in 1973 via refugee camps in Italy.