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Alumni news & careers
ISS news
Staff news
Alumni meetings
PhD defences
New publications
Alumni news & careers
Dr Chia Thye Poh was awarded the Lim Lian Geok Spirit Award in Kuala Lumpur. Dr Poh received his doctorate at ISS on 10 April 2006 with a thesis entitled 'Transplanted or Endogenized? FDI and Industrial Upgrading in Developing Countries'.
Wilfred Davidar (MA Public Policy and Management, 2006/2006) has been appointed as the new Chennai Corporation Commissioner for the Greater Chennai Metropolitan City. Davidar entered the Indian Administrative Service in 1986 after teaching political science in Madras Christian College for five years. Davidar served in several positions in the State and headed the departments of Handlooms and Textiles, Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu, Backward Classes Rehabilitation and, most recently, has been the Special Secretary, Health, handling a World Bank Project that was focused on upgrading 270 secondary hospitals across the State.
Mr. Márcio Favilla Lucca de Paula (Brazil), Executive Director for Competitiveness, External Relations and Partnerships at the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), based in Madrid, Spain (MA Regional Development Planning, 1985/1986 visited ISS on 4 November 2011.
Mr. Ben Eghan, Secretary to the Cabinet of Ghana, visited ISS on Monday 21 November 2011. Mr. Eghan studied at ISS between 1974 - 1976 when he was involved in a Diploma in Development Administration and an MA in Public Administration. At ISS he met with a group of approx. 30 students to discuss 'Career after ISS graduation'. It was an inspiring gathering for all attending.
Azharia Abdelbagi Elbushra from Sudan (Post Graduate Diploma, Development Planning Techniques, 2001), did a PhD in Agricultural Sciences at the University of Khartoum (2007) and was, along with some other ISS alumni, selected to participate in the IHS refresher course in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, held in November 2011.
Agnes Rimbere (Kenya, Rural Livelihoods and Global Change 2005/2006) has taken up a new position in Kabul (Afghanistan) where she works for Oxfam GB.
New book by Sharada Srinivasan, former student of ISS (PhD in 2006), and now Assistant Professor in International Development Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada entitled: Daughter Deficit, Sex Selection in Tamil Nadu
This book is about girls who are denied the right to live or to be born in India, and it asks why and how such a situation has come about. Daughter elimination in the form of sex selection, female infanticide and neglect is not an aberration or an idiosyncrasy—it accounts for a large proportion of missing girls in India, measured by the sex ratio imbalance in the 0–6 age group. The author examines this disturbing fact from the context of women’s lives to unravel the causes of daughter elimination, and the mechanisms which create and sustain an environment in which this is imaginable.
An interview with the author can be found in The Hindu.
ISS news
Lustrum 2012
Please mark the date of 12 October 2012 in your agenda. ISS will celebrate its 60th anniversary in the period September 2012 - July 2013. Most lustrum activities are scheduled in the week of 8 - 12 October 2012. On Friday 12 October special alumni activities are on the agenda. The programme has to be finalized but please, be aware that this is going to happen. If you have any plans to visit The Netherlands/Europe, please plan this date in The Hague into your schedule.
New ISS website
On 7 December 2011 ISS launched its new website
The new design and menu structure make it easier for visitors to find their way around the website and the special 'action boxes' on the home page provide direct links to the most important parts of the website such as our teaching and research pages.
The web editors are very interested to hear what you think of the new site, so feel free to send them an email via webupdate@iss.nl and tell them what you do and don't like about it.
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MA Graduation and Best Teaching Award 2011
The 2010-2011 batch of MA students graduated their certificates on 16 December 2011. As well as receiving their degrees, the students also presented the best teaching award to Howard Nicholas, Dubravka Zarkov, Helen Hintjens and John Careron. The students also made a short film explaining why they chose these four teachers.
You can watch some videos of the graduation ceremony and take a look at some of the photos taken during the afternoon.
Congratulations to all the students and the ISS' best teachers!
His Excellency Amadou Toumani Touré, President of Mali pays visit to ISS
He gave a lecture on peace and security in the Sahelo-Saharian region
The President visited the ISS on 30 November 2011. His speech, delivered in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands was entitled: ‘Reflections on the democratization processes in Mali and in Africa after the national conferences of the 1990s and the question of peace and security in the Sahelo-Saharian region’.
Read the full text of the speech (in English) and see a photo impression and videos of the event
Information on legalizing your diploma
Your Dutch Master and PhD diplomas can be legalized on condition that you submit the originals to the DUO department of the Dutch Ministry of Education.
As the legalization is probably meant for use in your home country, you also need the apostille: i.e. your country authorities will demand legalization.
There are two ways to accomplish the legalization: the choice is up to you or whoever does the procedure for you.
1. By sending your diplomas by registered mail together with the legalization application form (see http://www.ib-groep.nl/International_visitors/Diploma_assessment/Going_abroad/s20_legalizing.asp);
2. By going to the office in Groningen (in person or by proxy). Do not arrive too late: the end of the morning, beginning of the afternoon is good as that will leave enough time to go to the Groningen court to collect the apostille.
As sending by post always involves a certain risk (though this is negligible within the Netherlands but once in a while problematic internationally) it may be wise to use DHL or UPS. Documents will be returned to you by regular registered mail so if you want your diploma sent back by DHL or UPS you must organize it yourself.
Staff news
Professor Marc Wuyts held his valedictory lecture on 8 December 2011
Marc's valedictory lecture was entitled 'The working poor: a macro perspective'. He was Professor in Quantitative Applied Economics at ISS and Visiting Professor of Economics and Development at The Open University.
Senior Lecturer Joao Guimaraes retired in October 2011
Joao studied at ISS in 1973-74 and joined the teaching staff a few years later. He specialized in research and teaching in human resources and human development.
Lecturer Peter de Valk retired in November 2011
Peter joined ISS in 1978. He taught courses on the economics of sustainable development.
Alumni meetings
Upcoming meetings
ISS in inviting all alumni in Kenya for an alumni gathering on Wednesday 1 February 2012 in Nairobi. Dr Auma Okwany of ISS will host this informal gathering where she is happy to update you on the latest developments at ISS.
The gathering will start at 19.00 hrs in the Fairview Hotel in Nairobi. We are also happy to inform you that the Dutch Ambassador will attend the meeting.
Please register through an email to info@iss.nl, mentioning your name, your study and study year.
Recent meetings
An alumni gathering was held in Jakarta last Wednesday 11 January 2012 and approx. 60 alumni attended along with the first Secretary of the Dutch Embassy, Mr. Arnold van Zanden. More photos of the meeting can be viewed on Flickr.
PhD defences
Xiang Feng, China
on 11 November, 2011 Title of the thesis: 'Regional tourism cooperation. Factors influencing the performance of regional tourism cooperation in China'
Akimi Yessoufou, Benin
on 12 December 2011. Title of the thesis: Local Actors in Top-Down Implementation of Curricular Reform in Benin's Primary Education System
Bilisuma Bushi Dito, Ethiopia
on 22 December 2011. Title of the thesis: Essays on Women's Bargaining Power and Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Rural Ethiopia
Henry Aniagoa Kifordu, Nigeria
on 22 December 2011. Title of the thesis: Nigeria's political executive elite: Paradoxes and continuities, 1960-2007
New publications
The ISS libarary maintains a depository of publications by ISS staff and current and former students. The library also highlights ISS publications on its webpages.
Some recent publications by ISS staff
'Does foreign aid increase private investment? Evidence from panel cointegration.' Herzer, D. and Grimm, M. In Applied Economics 44/20.
The pattern of specialization and economic growth: The resource curse hypothesis revisited Murshed, S.M. and Serino, L.A. In Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 22/2.
Solidarity economy in Brazil: movement, discourse and practice. Analysis through a Polanyian understanding of the economy Helmsing, B. ISS Working Paper Series / General Series 524.
Social Institutions as a Form of Intangible Capital Bansha Dulal, H. and Foa, R.
Citizens Forum Zambia Kabanda, S.
Private Sector Involvement in Urban Solid Waste Collection. Performance, capacity and regulations in five cities in Ghana Oduro-Kwarteng, S.
To Measure is to Know? A Comparative Analysis of Gender Indices. Van Staveren, P.
When ‘civics’ go ‘governance’: on the role and relevance of civic organisations in the policy arena in Sub-Saharan Africa Brouwers, R. The Power of Civil Society Working Paper Series 9.
Sustainable Value Chains and Labour - Linking Chain and "Inner Drivers" - From Concepts to Practice Pegler, L. ISS Working Paper Series / General Series 525, (2011)
Firm Heterogeneity and Development: A Meta Analysis of FDI Productivity Spill-overs Mabratie, A.D. and van Bergeijk, P. ISS Working Paper Series / General Series 526, p1-22 (2011)
Climate Change and Development Framings: A Comparative Analysis of the Human Development Report 2007/8 an the World Development Report 2010 Gasper, D. R. Portocarrero, A.V., Lera St. Clair, A. ISS Working Paper Series / General Series 528, p1-30 (2011)
Video interviews - new publications
Authors talk about their new books
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Contact the Alumni Office at alumni@iss.nl for any questions, address updates, suggestions etcetera.
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