Norman Girvan received his BSc degree in economics from the University College of the West Indies (London University) and a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics. He is currently Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations, University of West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. Mr. Girvan is well known for his scholarship and public advocacy in a wide range of issues on Caribbean development and integration. His research and publications range over the subject areas of foreign capital and transnational corporations, technology transfer and development, debt, relations with the IMF, and Caribbean development and integration. He is the author of several books and monographs, and editor of over 70 journal articles. He was the founding President of the Association of Caribbean Economists and has served as the Chair or Board Member of a number of Jamaican and regional organizations, institutions, and companies, and on editorial committees of academic journals.
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Other Interviewees: Roy Culpeper, NSI President; Bill Morton, NSI Senior Researcher, (Development Cooperation); Kwesi Aning, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Centre, Ghana; Alejandro Bendaña, Centre for International Studies, Nicaragua; Norman Girvan, Institute of International Relations , University of West Indies, Trinidad; Ademola Oyejide, Trade Policy Research and Training Program, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; Nguyen Thi Thu Hang, Centre for Analysis and Forecasting at the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Vietnam. |