NSI's Distinguished Research Associates are leading or world-renowned specialists who lend their considerable expertise and experience to assist NSI in tackling a wide range of international development research challenges. Their role is to advise and support NSI researchers in carrying out cutting-edge and policy-relevant research.    

Dr. Olu Ajakaiye
	Dr. Olu Ajakaiye is a research professor with the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research in Ibadan, where he was director-general from 1999-2004. He was also the editor of the Journal of Economic Management from 1995 to 2002. From 2004 to 2011, he was Director of Research at the African Economic Research Consortium in Nairobi. Today, Mr. Ajakaiye is a member of the Advisory Panel of the UNDP Africa Human Development Report, 2011, and member of the Technical Advisory Group of the Natural Resource Charter at the University of Oxford. He specializes in development economics and has published widely in this area. He holds a PhD from Boston University.
Heather Baser
	Heather Baser, has, over a 20-year career, led and managed research programs focusing on capacity, technical assistance and program-based approaches, with special emphasis on fragile states. She has been recently focusing on new approaches to monitoring and evaluating capacity. She has a BA from the University of Alberta and an MA in International Affairs from Carleton University.
Dr. Jacqueline Best
	Dr. Jacqueline Best is an Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her work focuses on the social, cultural and political underpinnings of the global economic system. She is currently working on an analysis of the role of risk management in the recent financial crisis; and a book on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank and the forms of power and authority used by the two international financial institutions in their engagements with low income countries. She is an editor of the Routledge Review of International Political Economy Book Series and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Queensland and the University of Oxford.
Dr. James Bond
	Dr. James Bond is an independent financial consultant specializing in project and sovereign financing of infrastructure and extractive industries in emerging markets. He has held senior positions in the World Bank Group, most recently as Chief Operating Officer of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, but also as Country Director in Africa, World Bank Director of Energy, and Director of Mining at the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Prior to the World Bank he was an executive in the international petroleum industry. He is a recognized expert on the governance of natural resources and development. He holds a Doctorate in Economics from the Université de Panthéon- Sorbonne and degrees in economics, finance and engineering.
Dr. Stephen Brown
	Dr. Stephen Brown is associate professor at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa. He worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for several years in the 1990s. Since then he has served as a consultant for several development-related organizations including the UNDP, the OECD/DAC and the IDRC. His research focuses mainly on the intersection of the policies and practices of wealthy countries and other international actors, with the politics of poorer countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. He has published on democratization, political violence, peacebuilding and transitional justice/rule of law, as well as on foreign aid.
Dr. Roy Culpeper
	Dr. Roy Culpeper was President of NSI from 1995 until 2010, prior to which he was its Vice-President of Research. Earlier he worked with the office of the Canadian Executive Director to the World Bank in Washington, and for the federal departments of Finance and External Affairs. From January until May 2011 he was a visiting Research Chair at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, D.C. He is a Distinguished Research fellow of the NSI, a Senior Fellow of the University of Ottawa's School of International Development and an Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University. He earned a PhD in Economics at the University of Toronto.
Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims
	Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims is an independent consultant working in the area of human rights, women's rights, conflict analysis and resolution, and peacebuilding. Her expertise is in gendered impacts of armed conflict on women and the role of women in peacebuilding. Her doctoral research addresses women's human rights in Afghanistan, exploring challenges and opportunities in implementing the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. In addition to teaching in a number of conflict studies programs, Ms. Farhoumand-Sims has worked as a peace practitioner, volunteer mediator and is very active in civil society and policy engagement activities.
Heather Gibb
	Heather Gibb is a consultant on gender equality and trade issues. While Senior Researcher at NSI from 1992-2010, she contributed to discussions on gender and trade in Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Her publications include Human Rights and Private Sector Development: A Discussion Paper (with John Foster and Ann Weston, NSI, 2008); and Gender and Regional Trade Agreements (APEC WLN, 2008). Previously, Ms. Gibb worked with the Office of The Rt. Hon. Joe Clark, and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. She is a graduate of McGill University and the University of British Columbia, and a member of the International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics.
Dr. Pierre Jacquemont
	Dr. Pierre Jacquemot has served as France's Ambassador to Kenya, Ghana and most recently to the Democratic Republic of Congo. From 1997 to 2000 he was Director for development and cooperation with the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Prior to that he headed the French Mission of Cooperation to Burkina Faso and Cameroon. Mr. Jacquemot has lectured on international and development economics and in economics and planning. He has consulted for the UNDP, the World Bank and numerous African and South American countries and has published numerous books, articles and scholarly papers on Africa, international cooperation and international economics. He has a doctorate in Economic Theory (Bordeaux-Dakar,1972) and in Applied Economics (Paris-Dauphine,1978).
Dr. Olaf Juergensen
	Dr. Olaf Juergensen has more than 15 years of international development experience. He has worked in southern Africa and the Middle East where he focused on the nature of conflict and its relation to sustainable peace and development. He has advised governments, universities, civil society organizations and UN agencies on how to best assist war-torn societies recover from conflict. He is currently exploring the role of the natural resource sector on reconstruction and transformation in post-conflict settings. Dr. Juergensen has a PhD in Geography from Queen´s University and worked for the International Development Research Centre in Johannesburg and for UNDP in Mozambique, Jordan, Iraq, and Angola.
Dr. Andrew Kanter
	Dr. Andrew Kantner has spent much of his career in family planning, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS program monitoring/evaluation and research. In recent years he participated in project evaluations for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) in counties such as Armenia, Bangladesh, Egypt, Russia, South Sudan, Indonesia and Vietnam. He contributed to the 2011 United Nations Commission on Population and Development. Between 1990 and 1999 he was a Senior Fellow with The East-West Center in Hawaii. He has published numerous books and scholarly papers on the subject of public and reproductive health. During his early career he worked with the Population Council in New York and the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa. He holds a PhD in sociology from Duke University, and MSc from LSE, and a BA in economics from York University.
Dr. Danny Leipziger
	Dr. Danny Leipziger is Professor of International Business at George Washington University. He is former Vice President for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management at the World Bank. He was also Vice Chair of the Commission on Growth and Development, co-led by Michael Spence, the Nobel Prize Laureate in economics. He is a frequent commentator in the media on global economic issues. Prior to joining the Bank, Dr. Leipziger held senior positions at the USAID and the U.S. Department of State. He has a PhD in Economics from Brown University. He has published widely on issues related to development economics and finance, industrial policy, and banking.
Alastair McKechnie
	Alastair McKechnie was Director, Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries Group, at the time of his retirement from the World Bank in 2010. During a 28-year career in the Bank he held various senior positions including Country Director for Afghanistan, Bhutan, and the Maldives in the South Asia Region, and Operations Director for the South Asia Region. Since retiring, Mr. McKechnie has worked as an adviser on the Bank's World Development Report for 2011, assisted the g7+ group in preparing for the High Level Forum on Development Effectiveness, is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Fragile States, and is a member of the Atlantic Council Task Force on Afghanistan led by former US national security advisor, Brent Scowcroft. He also consults for the Overseas Development Institute. He is a New Zealand national with university degrees in economics and engineering.
Dr. Richard Newfarmer
	Dr. Richard Newfarmer is Director for Rwanda of the International Growth Centre at the London School of Economics and Oxford University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the World Trade Institute. Previously, during a 28-year career at the World Bank, he was the Bank's Special Representative to the UN and the WTO in Geneva, Economic Advisor in the International Trade Department of the World Bank, Lead Economist in the Chief Economist's Office of East Asia, and Lead Economist for China. He has authored numerous country studies at the World Bank and has written extensively on foreign direct investment. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Newfarmer was on the economics faculty at the University of Notre Dame. He holds a PhD and two MAs from the University of Wisconsin.
Caroline Pestieau
	Caroline Pestieau has worked for most of her professional life at linking teaching, research and policy. She has taught at the University of the West Indies and Concordia University and conducted and managed research at the C.D. Howe Institute. She is a former Vice President at the International Development Research Centre, and Deputy Chair of the Economic Council of Canada. From 2002 to 2007 she chaired the Board of the African Economic Research Consortium, and from 2003 to 2009 she was a member of the Governing Board of the International Crop Research Institute. Ms. Pestieau was a founding member of the Quebec Council on the Status of Women and a Commissioner of the Quebec Commission on Access to Information and Protection of Privacy.
Dr. Margot E. Salomon
	Dr. Margot E. Salomon is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and Law Department, at the London School of Economics (LSE). She specializes in international human rights law and its application to world poverty, development, and issues of global economic justice.  Dr. Salomon convenes the cross-departmental research group at the LSE on Globalisation, Poverty and Responsibility. She is a member of the International Law Association's Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. She has been a consultant to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and an Advisor to the UN High-Level Task Force on the Right to Development. Dr Salomon is a dual Canadian-British national.
Dr. Yiagadeesen (Teddy) Samy
	Dr. Yiagadeesen (Teddy) Samy is an Associate Professor of International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University. He holds a PhD in Economics. His fields of specialization are international trade and development economics. He has published in journals such as Applied Economics, the Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, and Foreign Policy Analysis. He co-authored the book Security, Development and the Fragile State: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Policy with David Carment and Stewart Prest in 2009 (Routledge). He is currently working on state fragility; fiscal pacts and development outcomes; aid for trade; and emerging donors.
John Sinclair
	John Sinclair is a Senior Fellow at the University of Ottawa's School of International Development. He previously worked both with CIDA and the World Bank. He has been a consultant in recent years to the Asian Development Bank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and UNICEF. His geographic focus is Africa and Asia, and he has lived in Sri Lanka and Egypt. He presently resides in Indonesia. His current research interests are global development architecture, development effectiveness/managing for results, evaluation, country and donor performance, governance/corruption, institutional effectiveness, inclusiveness and decentralization. He studied economics at Cambridge University.
Timothy M. Shaw
	Timothy M. Shaw is Director and Professor at the Institute of International Relations, the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Previously Prof. Shaw was professor in the Human Security and Peacebuilding Program at Royal Roads University. For three decades, Prof. Shaw was professor of political science and international development at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, where he established the undergraduate and post-graduate programs in international development. He is a member of the Civil Society Advisory Committee to the Commonwealth Foundation and he completed his graduate work at Makerere University in Uganda where he is a visiting professor. He edits two book series: International Political Economy for Palgrave Macmillan and IPE of New Regionalisms for Ashgate Publishing.