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Dr. Jody Ranck, Advisor

As Director of Health Horizons and Global Health, The Institute for The Future, Dr. Ranck's research focuses on issues and impacts of global health trends. Previously, Jody was Director of the Technological Politics Program at the Sustainable Sciences Institute in San Francisco, a nonprofit dedicated to mobilizing PCR and other biotechnologies to address public health issues in developing countries. Prior to this research, Jody was the Director of Research for the Waitt Family Foundation for a brief period after leaving the University of California, Berkeley where he was a fellow at the Human Rights Center.

At the Human Rights Center he developed and directed a research collaboration on the effects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. humanitarianism and political violence. Jody holds a BA in biology from Ithica College, an MA in economics from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Public Health from UC Berkeley.
 

Dr. Dirk Vandewalle, Advisor

Dirk Vandewalle is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, and former chair of its Asian and Middle Eastern Studies program.

His academic specialty is the political economy of North Africa and economic liberalization in the Middle East. Dr. Vandewalle is the author of Libya Since Independence: Oil and State-building (Cornell University Press) and A History of Modern Libya (Cambridge University Press), in addition to two edited volumes on Libya. He has received a Fulbright and Social Science Research Council grant for his research, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Institute for International Development and at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

He is currently working on a manuscript on state-building, opposition, and institutional development in the Arab Gulf.

 
 

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