Carl Haub

Carl Haub is a senior demographer and holder of the Conrad Taeuber Chair of Population Information at the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, D.C., where he has been employed since 1979. He is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and publications on world and U.S. population trends. Beginning in 1980, he has prepared the annual World Population Data Sheet, the most widely circulated world population data source in use. His publications include the U.N. Long-Range Population Projections: What They Tell Us and the Population Bulletins Understanding Population Projections, World Population Beyond Six Billion, and Population Change in the Former Soviet Republics. In recent years, he has traveled to Belarus, Germany, India, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Vietnam conducting demographic studies for the World Bank and other international organizations and has served as United Nations Expert on the International Transmission of Population Policy Experience. His position at PRB entails daily support of the media on demographic matters in addition to frequent public speaking activities and media interviews. Mr. Haub has also worked in the field of demography at the National Academy of Sciences, the World Bank, and the U.S. Bureau of the Census. He holds a Master's degree in demography from Georgetown University and is a member of the Population Association of America and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.

Nancy Hafkin

Nancy worked at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa from 1976-2000 in the areas of information on women and development and in promoting information technology for African development. She was chief of research and publications at the African Centre for Women from 1977-1986, and then joined the Pan African Development Information System (PADIS) in 1986, directing its work from 1989-1996. In order to facilitate the exchange of development information in Africa, she initiated a number of projects for African electronic connectivity, including "Computer Networking in Africa" (1987-1990) and Capacity Building for Electronic Communication in Africa (1991-1994). She organized several major regional conferences related to connectivity in Africa and initiated the ECA programme in promoting information technology for development in 1995, which she then led. She served as ECA focal point for the POPIN-Africa Network from 1994 to 1998 and was coordinator of the African Information Society Initiative from 1996-2000. The Association for Progressive Communications in 2000 established the Nancy J. Hafkin Information Society Prize to encourage and recognize African initiatives in information and communication technologies Nancy Hafkin holds a Ph.D. in history (Africa) from Boston University. She currently lives in Wayland MA where she is an independent consultant in information technology for development.

Marlaine E. Lockheed

Education Sector Manager, Human Development Network, The World Bank
Marlaine Lockheed received her Ph.D. from Stanford University's International Development Education Center (SIDEC) in 1972, and is Education Sector Manager in the Human Development Network of the World Bank. She was formerly Education Sector Manager in the Social and Human Development Department of the World Bank's Middle East and North Africa Region. Before joining the Bank in 1985, she held various positions in research at Educational Testing Service, and taught as a visiting professor, at the University of Texas at Austin and Stanford University in sociology and policy analysis. She has directed research on a wide range of topics--including social and cultural diversity, educational assessment, school effectiveness , cross-national variations in education reform and education decentralization --and has worked in over a dozen countries worldwide.

Lockheed has authored or edited nine books and special issues of journals, over 50 journal articles and book chapters, 35 technical reports and 80 papers presented at professional meetings covering a broad range of education policy and practice issues. Recent books include Primary Education in India (World Bank, 1997), National Assessments: Testing the System (with P. Murphy, V. Greaney and C. Rojas, EDI/World Bank 1996) and Effective Schools in Developing Countries (with H. Levin, Falmer Press 1993). She was the principal author of the World Bank's policy paper Primary Education and the book Improving Primary Education in Developing Countries (with A. Verspoor and others, Oxford University Press); the latter were the World Bank's core contributions to the 1990 World Conference of Education for All in Jomtien.

Lockheed has served as Vice-President of the American Educational Research Association (Division G: Social Context of Education) and as member of the Executive Committee, President of the AERA International Studies Special Interest Group, Chair of AERA's Government and Professional Relations Committee, Chair of the American Sociological Association's Committee on the Status of Women, and member of the Board of the Comparative and International Education Society.

She was Associate Editor of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis ,1997-2000, has served on the editorial boards of the Comparative Education Review and four other peer-reviewed journals, and as consulting editor for 11 journals (including Economics of Education Review and Economic Development and Cultural Change). She is a member of the National Academy of Science National Research Council's Board on International and Comparative Studies in Education. She was the 1985 recipient of the AERA's Willystine Goodsall Award.

Leela McCullough

Dr. Leela McCullough's education in the Biological Sciences (B.A.,Australia), science education (M.A., Canada) and curriculum development and teacher training (Ed.D., USA) form a solid foundation for her efforts to promote the use of IT tools in creating access to information for health professionals in the developing world. She is currently Director of Information Services at SATELLIFE and is responsible for the development and implementation of a suite of electronic information services serving almost 10, 000 health professionals in 140 countries. Born and raised in South Africa, Dr. McCullough has lived in India, Ethiopia, England, Australia, Canada, and the US.

Kurt Moses

Kurt is Vice President and Director of Computer and Systems Services at the Academy for Education Development. He has an M.B.A. in Finance and Public Administration from the University of Chicago. His expertise is in the fields of learning technologies, higher education strategic planning, and computerizing education systems in developing countries. He has worked in Bahrain, Belgium, Belize, Cameroon, Colombia, Costa Rica, former Czechoslovakia, Egypt, El Salvador, Guam, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Namibia, Panama, Palau, Pakistan, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Venezuela, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
His recent presentations include:

• "Transformation of Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla: Strategy and Technology," presented at the Educational Leadership Seminar, San Francisco, November 1996.
• "The Transformational Nature of Technology-Distance Learning: A New Paradigm for Developing Institutions," presented at the International Congress on Technology and Distance Education, San Jose, Costa Rica, November 1996.
• "International Case Studies in Distance Learning," in Annals of the American Academy of Political Science and Social Science: Electronic Links for Learning, March 1991.

Susan Kingsley Pasquariella, D.L.S. 

Dr. Pasquariella has been global Coordinator of the United Nations Population Information Network since October 1993. A primary responsibility has been the introduction and promotion of electronic technologies and the design and implementation of a decentralized Internet-based system of regional and national electronic information-sharing networks strengthened through training and capaicty-building to ensure skills transfer to all countries and regions. This has been done with financial support from UNFPA and in partnership with the the UN regional commissions, the specialized agencies and the non-governmental population community. Prior to joining the United Nations, Dr. Pasquariella was Director of the Library Information Program, Columbia University Center for Population and Family Health (CPFH), where her responsibilities included managing the CPFH contribution to the POPLINE database and building developing country information support for health research and delivery services. Dr. Pasquariella holds Doctoral and Masters' degrees from Columbia University. For more information about POPIN, see www.undp.org/popin.

Elizabeth T. Robinson, M.S.

Associate Director for Information Programs, Family Health International, Ms. Robinson manages information programs, technical assistance in communications and media relations efforts. Her responsibilities include developing and overseeing U.S. and developing country information dissemination activities, FHI's library, publications, and research dissemination programs, including FHI's Web site and other initiatives in electronic dissemination. Since joining FHI in 1985, she has served in various capacities, including as managing editor for FHI's scientific bulletins Network, Network en francais and Network en espanol and established FHI's health journalism training program. Prior to coming to FHI she worked as a journalist in the New York area, Washington, DC, and in Algeria, Tunisia, Niger and Burkina Faso. Ms. Robinson received an M.S. in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York and held a one-year fellowship in the Columbia University School of International Affairs Fellows Program in 1981.

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