- 5 years project management in innovation, science, health, policy, and international affairs
- Passion for translating scientific innovations into policy and collaborations, with the aim to tackle our most pressing global issues
- Responsible for the design and growth of 2 science journals, i) Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (FAI) and ii) Frontiers in Big Data (FDATA)
- Co-develop key content collections with Chief Editors and private sector KOLs
- Excellent academic background (Princeton University, Max Planck Society, Graduate Institute, Harvard University)
- Dedicated team player, multi-lingual, international background, turns problems into opportunities
- Leading a research group in developing business and content insights for GARDP on AMR and social science and medicine, incubated by WHO and DNDi.
- Co-teaching an Executive Education workshop as well as a Master's class at the Graduate Institute on Health, Advocacy, and International Policy.
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Supervisors: Davide Rodogno and Gopalan Balachandran
- Passion for translating scientific innovations into policy and collaborations, with the aim to tackle our most pressing global issues
- Responsible for the design and growth of 2 science journals, i) Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (FAI) and ii) Frontiers in Big Data (FDATA)
- Co-develop key content collections with Chief Editors and private sector KOLs
- Excellent academic background (Princeton University, Max Planck Society, Graduate Institute, Harvard University)
- Dedicated team player, multi-lingual, international background, turns problems into opportunities
- Leading a research group in developing business and content insights for GARDP on AMR and social science and medicine, incubated by WHO and DNDi.
- Co-teaching an Executive Education workshop as well as a Master's class at the Graduate Institute on Health, Advocacy, and International Policy.
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Supervisors: Davide Rodogno and Gopalan Balachandran
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Second, the specific perspective of the conference allows us to expand on the funding matrixes of development politics and policies: wars, post-war and imperial/colonial and post-colonial contexts. Scholars working on development generally work on them separately focusing on one or the other alternatively. The point we make is that within international organizations these matrixes often conflate. For instance, international development programs set up in the late 1940s were a ‘natural’ continuation of international rehabilitation and reconstruction programs undertaken by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. The term administration, which prominently appeared in the first UN agency, was a legacy of older international organizations such as the American Relief Administration, signalling the ambition to govern, in a bureaucratic and scientific (i.e. ‘modern’) way, rehabilitation, reconstruction, and development of target-populations. The conduct and planning of war economies as well as the weakening of European metropolises in the aftermath of the First World War led to a number of reflections. They were undertaken at the national and international level; one could mention the debates on economic and social development in the colonies, as illustrated by the international treaties on slavery and forced labour in the 1920s. In 1919 as well as 1945, newly established international organizations conceived and implemented international plans intended to ensure durable peace and prosperity for all. The war itself was a moment when these politics emerged and were enforced. The Cold War and decolonization triggered new impulses and strengthened the assumption, still thriving today, that ‘under-development’ leads to insecurity and threatens peace. It was within international organizations that a variety of actors articulated the connection between peace and prosperity through development. The conference intends to show that international organizations are a very useful object of historical enquiry to unfold this complex entanglement of contexts that shaped international development ideas and projects.
The last panel of the conference gives the floor to anthropologists and political scientists who have conducted fieldwork. In so doing, signalling the importance of opening up to other disciplines when studying the history of international development aid.
Dissertation by Felix C. Ohnmacht
Second, the specific perspective of the conference allows us to expand on the funding matrixes of development politics and policies: wars, post-war and imperial/colonial and post-colonial contexts. Scholars working on development generally work on them separately focusing on one or the other alternatively. The point we make is that within international organizations these matrixes often conflate. For instance, international development programs set up in the late 1940s were a ‘natural’ continuation of international rehabilitation and reconstruction programs undertaken by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. The term administration, which prominently appeared in the first UN agency, was a legacy of older international organizations such as the American Relief Administration, signalling the ambition to govern, in a bureaucratic and scientific (i.e. ‘modern’) way, rehabilitation, reconstruction, and development of target-populations. The conduct and planning of war economies as well as the weakening of European metropolises in the aftermath of the First World War led to a number of reflections. They were undertaken at the national and international level; one could mention the debates on economic and social development in the colonies, as illustrated by the international treaties on slavery and forced labour in the 1920s. In 1919 as well as 1945, newly established international organizations conceived and implemented international plans intended to ensure durable peace and prosperity for all. The war itself was a moment when these politics emerged and were enforced. The Cold War and decolonization triggered new impulses and strengthened the assumption, still thriving today, that ‘under-development’ leads to insecurity and threatens peace. It was within international organizations that a variety of actors articulated the connection between peace and prosperity through development. The conference intends to show that international organizations are a very useful object of historical enquiry to unfold this complex entanglement of contexts that shaped international development ideas and projects.
The last panel of the conference gives the floor to anthropologists and political scientists who have conducted fieldwork. In so doing, signalling the importance of opening up to other disciplines when studying the history of international development aid.