Speaker biographies
Roger Bate is a resident fellow at AEI who researches aid policy in Africa and the developing world, and evaluates the performance and effectiveness of USAID, the World Bank, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, nongovernmental organizations, as well as other aid organizations and development policy initiatives. He writes extensively on topics such as health policy and endemic diseases (malaria, HIV/AIDS) in developing countries; water policy; international environmental and health agreements (industrial chemicals, climate change, and water); and genetically modified organisms and pesticide policy. Mr. Bate’s writings have appeared in, among others, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Economic Affairs, and he regularly contributes to AEI's Environmental Policy Outlook and Health Policy Outlook series. Before joining AEI, Mr. Bate founded the environmental unit at the Institute of Economic Affairs in 1993 and co-founded the European Science and Environment Forum. He has also served as both a director and fellow at the International Policy Network in the United Kingdom.
Nicholas Eberstadt is the Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy at AEI and is senior adviser to the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) in Seattle. He serves on the advisory board of the Korea Economic Institute of America, and is a founding member of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. Mr. Eberstadt regularly consults for governmental and international organizations, including the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. State Department, USAID, and World Bank. He has published over 300 studies and articles in scholarly and popular journals, mainly on topics in demography, international development, and East Asian security. His dozen-plus books and monographs include The Poverty of Communism (Transaction, 1988), The Population of North Korea (Institute for East Asian Studies, 1992), The Tyranny of Numbers (AEI Press, 1995), The End of North Korea (AEI Press, 1999), Korea's Future and the Great Power (National Bureau of Asian Research, 2001) and the forthcoming North Korea's Economy Between Crisis and Catastrophe.
Barun Mitra is founder and director of the Liberty Institute. The institute was one of the fifteen think tanks awarded the Templeton Award for Institute Excellence in 2003. In 2001, the institute was awarded the Sir Anthony Fisher Memorial International Prize for best publication from a new think tank for the book Population: The Ultimate Resource, edited by Mr. Mitra. He has been published in a wide range of national and international newspapers and magazines, including the Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Times (UK), South China Morning Post, and Far Eastern Economic Review. Among Indian publications, his analysis regularly appears in the Financial Express, the Indian Express, and the Hindustan Times. He received the 2005 Julian Simon Award from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and one of his op-eds was selected for the 2004 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award by the Pacific Research Institute. His contribution to the cause of economic and political liberty was recognized by the International Society for Individual Liberty with the Freedom Torch Medal in 2004.
Julian Morris is the executive director of International Policy Network and a visiting professor at the University of Buckingham. He is the author or editor of many papers and books, including Environment and Health: Myths and Realities, Sustainable Development: Promoting Progress or Perpetuating Poverty, Ideal Matter: Globalisation and the Intellectual Property Debate, and Rethinking Risk and the Precautionary Principle. He is co-editor of the Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development and is also a member of the editorial board of Energy and Environment. His articles and book reviews have appeared in the Financial Times, the Sunday Times (UK), the Australian, the Wall Street Journal Europe, Economic Times (India), Business Day (South Africa), the Daily Telegraph (UK), Economic Affairs, Nature, Toxicology, and various other newspapers and journals.
Maureen Lewis is an advisor in the Human Development Vice Presidency of the World Bank and a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development. She was formerly chief economist of the Human Development Network of the World Bank and prior to that managed a unit in the bank dedicated to economic policy and human development research and programs in eastern Europe and central Asia. While at the World Bank Ms. Lewis managed the first HIV/AIDS project to Brazil. Before joining the World Bank, she established and directed the International Health and Demographic Policy Unit at the Urban Institute. An adjunct professor in the George Washington University Graduate Program, she has published dozens of articles in peer-reviewed journals on the economics of health and population in development.
Vance Serchuk is a research fellow in foreign policy studies at AEI, where he researches international organizations and the overlap between U.S. strategic interests and development policy. Previously he was a research associate at AEI, coordinating its defense and security policy program. He has also worked as a consultant for the Project for the New American Century and the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. Before joining AEI, Mr. Serchuk was a Fulbright scholar in the Russian Federation. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Weekly Standard, New York Sun, The Forward, and other publications.
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