The International Institute of Social Studies has regularly awarded honorary fellowships to scholars working at the cutting edge of Development Studies
Our Honorary Fellows
2015
Inaugural Lecture: How does Health Promotion Work? Evidence from the Dirty Business of Eliminating Open Defecation
Paul Gertler is an influential development and health economist and has been a pioneer in applying randomized control experiments in the area of health and development. He is Professor of Economics at the School of Public Health and Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
He has been a Principal Investigator on a large number of at-scale multi-site impact evaluations including Mexico’s CCT programme, Progresa/Oportunidades, and Rwanda’s Health Care Pay-for-Performance scheme. He has extensively published results from impact evaluations in both scientific and policy journals on early childhood development, education, fertility and contraceptive use, health, HIV-AIDS, energy and climate change, housing, job training, poverty alleviation, labor markets, and water and sanitation.
He was awarded the Kenneth Arrow Award for best paper in health economics in 1996.
2013
Inaugural Lecture: Voices of the Poor and Beyond: Lessons from the Past, Agenda for the Future
Robert Chambers is one of the most influential scholars and writers in international development studies of the past generation.
For the last 40 years he has been a researcher at the Institute of Development Studies, at the University of Sussex in England. He became a leading figure in the field of development management in the 1970s, publishing several books on the management of land settlement schemes and much work on rural development management more broadly.
This drew on ten or twelve years of experience as an administrator, lecturer and researcher in Africa, to which he later added five or six years of research in India.
Dr. Chambers showed a special talent for expressing insights in simple terms that could reach wide audiences — for example in reminders about the great relevance of seasonality (wet season, dry season; cold season, hot season, and so on) for all aspects of rural living and rural research, and in warnings about the low relevance of super-sophisticated methods of planning and assessment which are used after the real political decisions about proposed investments have in fact been made; so he suggested that in terms of methods often, in a well-known phrase, ‘simple is optimal’.
People-centered approach
What has made Robert Chambers famous, however, has been his work from the early 1980s onwards. Looking back on the work of his mainstream development management period, he came to consider much of it to be misleading and misconceived, sometimes even disastrous.
Dr. Chambers has had a major contribution to a paradigm shift in development studies towards more ‘people-centred’ and bottom-up approaches. From being a mainstream development management scholar, he evolved into being a world leader of participatory development research and participatory practice, and a central figure in the corresponding global knowledge networks and communities of practice, not only in universities but especially also amongst practitioners in NGOs, government and civil society.
He helped to identify, highlight and name many potential biases in the observation and understanding of poor people’s lives; to diagnose the sources of these biases, in methods of observation and analysis, and in the underlying power-relations and mindsets; and to build new methods, and a system of ideas to sustain them.
In sum, he has contributed in convincing many development researchers and practitioners to take a more people-centred view.
Participatory research methods
And flowing out of and partnering that view, he has helped to inspire and coordinate large networks of researchers and researcher-practitioners in the formulating, testing and sharing of new sets of methods, methods that are open to ordinary people’s knowledge and involvement, and in then using such methods to explore many aspects of people’s livelihoods and of change processes and approaches to planned change.
His participatory research methods have ‘broken the fixed mindset that poor people cannot contribute knowledge and understanding of their own situation’. In the judgement of many, he can thus be called a leader in revolutionizing development thinking, to use the title of a recent festschrift for him, published last year. Robert himself remarks that much of what is attributed to him is mis-attributed: very often his contribution was to bring together and articulate insights from other people -- but he has done this in a particularly effective way.
2009
Inaugural Lecture: The Great Transformation in a Globalized Perspective
Jan Breman (1936) majored in the social sciences at the University of Amsterdam and specialized in South and Southeast Asian Studies. In 1962 he became a staff member, later reader and professor, at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He held a chair in the sociology of development since 1974.
His transfer in 1987 to Amsterdam University, to teach comparative sociology, coincided with the establishment of the post-graduate Centre for Asian Studies Amsterdam (CASA). He was Dean of CASA and the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research with which CASA merged, until September 1998.
He was appointed extraordinary professor of development sociology at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, a post he held until 2001. His Valedictory Address delivered on 25 October, 2001 was entitled ‘A Question of Poverty’.
He continues to be affiliated to the Amsterdam School but is also Fellow of the International Institute of Asian Studies.
Jan Breman is a visiting professor in India (Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi) and in Indonesia (Agricultural University, Bogor), and has travelled widely on short-term academic visits to other Asian countries. He has carried out consultancy missions in the Asian region for ILO, UNRISD, ESCAP, Asian Development Bank, as well as for various non-government agencies and for the Dutch Ministry of Development Cooperation.
Spread over a period of forty-five years Jan Breman has conducted anthropological fieldwork in India (South Gujarat) and Indonesia (West Java), mainly on rural and urban labour and employment. The outcome of his research has been published in books and journals.
Professor Breman was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at ISS on 29 October, 2009. His Inaugural lecture was entitled The Great Transformation in a Globalized Perspective.
On this occasion Professor Jan Pronk delivered the laudatio.
2007
Inaugural Lecture: Rethinking Collectivities: Institutional Innovations in Group Farming, Community Forestry and Strategic Alliances
In 2011, Bina Argawal was also awarded an Honorary doctorate from the University of Antwerp. She was awarded the Honorary doctorate 'for her eminent and internationally highly valued contribution to the development of theoretical insights in the area of gender, environment and development, and for the translation of these socially relevant insights into national and international policy'.
On 18 October 2007, on the occasion of its 55th Dies Natalis, the Institute of Social Studies awarded Professor Bina Agarwal an honorary doctorate. Bina Agarwal is an economist with a keen interest in interdisciplinary and inter-country explorations. Her academic work has made major contributions in many key areas of the interdisciplinary field of development studies, including land, livelihoods and property rights; gender theory and political economy; environment and development; and agriculture, technological change and rural transformation. Her academic achievement is combined with active engagement in policy debates and campaigns, most notably in the recent successful campaign for reforming India’s inheritance laws in which she played a leading role.
In particular, her award-winning book A Field of One’s Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia (1994) has had major impact on government policy, NGO thinking and international donor agency approaches to issues of gender and land rights. More than a decade later, and after four reprintings, it remains a landmark reference for scholars and activists concerned with women’s land rights in all parts of the world, and has inspired similar work in other regions. Probably no single scholar has done more than Bina Agarwal to put women’s land and property rights on development policy agendas.
2007
Inaugural Lecture: The Limitations of Development Orthodoxy
Sir Richard Jolly has been a leading figure in human development since the 1970s, notably within the UN system. He has an outstanding academic record in development studies as Director of the Institute of Development Studies Opens externalat Sussex University, UK (1972-81), and currently as Honorary Professor and Research Associate. Richard Jolly is a Trustee of OXFAMOpens external, a Council Member of the Overseas Development InstituteOpens external and Chairman of the UN Association of the United KingdomOpens external.
He was made a Knight of the Order of St Michael and St George for his contributions to international development. He was Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF (1981–95), supporting the child survival revolution and the strategies of ‘structural adjustment with a human face’ which led into the conception of human development. In the period 1996–2000 Jolly was Chief Architect of the UNDP Human Development Reports.
Dr Jolly received his degree in economics from the University of Cambridge in 1956, and he earned his doctorate subsequently from Yale University.
2006
Inaugural Lecture: Education for Democratic Citizenship
Martha Nussbaum is one of America’s most prominent philosophers with a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy and ethics. Currently, she is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. She previously taught at Harvard, Brown, and Oxford Universities. She also holds Associate appointments in Classics and Political Science, is a member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, a Board Member of the Human Rights Program, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1988) and the American Philosophical Society. Also, she is a Founding President and Past President of the Human Development and Capability Association and a Past President of the American Philosophical Association, Central Division. Nussbaum has 32 honorary doctorates and is an award-winning author. The Institute of Social Studies awarded its honorary doctorate to her in 2006.
2003
Inaugural Lecture: Orientalism Once More
Professor Edward Wadie Said was born on 1st November 1935 in Jerusalem (then in the British Mandate of Palestine) and died on 25th September 2003 at the age of 67 years in New York City, USA. His father was a wealthy Protestant Palestinian businessman and an American citizen who had served under General Pershing in World War I, while his mother was born in Nazareth also of Christian Palestinian descent. His sister was the historian and writer Rosemarie Said Zahlan. He referred to himself as a "Christian wrapped in a Muslim culture". In his formative years, he lived in both Cairo and Jerusalem before his family moved to the USA. He attended the Anglican St. Georges Academy in Jerusalem in 1947. In 1948, his entire family became refugees in Egypt during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
In the USA, he attended different schools and in 1957 he earned an A.B. (Artium Baccaleureus/Bachelor of Arts) from Princeton University, an MA in 1960 from Harvard University where he won the Bowdoin Prize. He joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1963 and served as Professor of English and Comparative Literature for several decades. In 1977 Said became the Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia and subsequently became the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities. In 1992 he attained the rank of University Professor, Columbia's most prestigious academic position. Professor Said also taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Yale universities. He was fluent in English, French, and Arabic.
Said was bestowed with numerous honorary doctorates from universities around the world and twice received Columbia's Trilling Award and the Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association. The Institute of Social Studies awarded its honorary doctorate to Said in 2002.His autobiographical memoir, Out of Place, won the 1999 New Yorker Prize for non-fiction. He was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Royal Society of Literature, and the American Philosophical Society. Said's writing regularly appeared in The Nation, The Guardian, the London Review of Books, Le Monde Diplomatique, Counterpunch, Al Ahram, and the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat. Alongside his good friend, fellow political activist and colleague Noam Chomsky, he gave interviews on US foreign policy to various independent radio programs.
Honorary Degree at ISS: Orientalism once more (2003) / Edward W. Said / The Hague: ISS, 2003. Lecture delivered on the occasion of the awarding of the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa on the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands, 21st May 2003.
2002
Elinor Ostrom (1933 - 2012) was the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, and Co-Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University Bloomington.
In 1973 she co-founded The Workshop in Political Theory and Public Policy at Indiana University with her husband, Vincent Ostrom. Considered an expert on collective action, trust, and the commons, her institutional approach to public policy was considered distinct enough to be thought of as a separate 'school' of Public Choice Theory (See Mitchell 1988). She authored many books in the fields of organizational theory, political science, and public administration.
Ostrom received her PhD in political science from UCLA in 1965. She was a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and past president of the American Political Science Association. In 1999 she became the first woman to receive the prestigious Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science and in 2005 received the James Madison Award by the American Political Science Association. She was awarded a Honorary Doctorate at ISS in 2002. In 2008, she received the William H Riker Prize in political science, and became the first woman to do so.
In 2009 Elinor Ostrom was awarded the Nobel economics prize (together with Oliver Williamson) for her work with on economic governance - the way authority is exercised in economic systems. Ostrom was the first woman to receive this prize.
2002
Inaugural Lecture: Collateral Damage or Calculated Default? The Millennium Development Goals and the Politics of Globalisation
Professor Jan Pronk, has garnered repute as one of the most influential persons in Development Cooperation in the Netherlands, both through his distinguished careerOpens external as a politician and a prominent United Nations Official. He studied Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam where he worked in research, and has made extensive scholarly contributions to the field of development. In 1971 he took up politics and has since served as the Minister of Development Cooperation from 1973-1977, 1989-1994, and 1994-1998, and as Minister of Housing and Environment in 1998-2002. He was appointed Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD) from 1980-1986, and served as the Special representative for the United Nations Mission to Sudan for Darfur (2004-2006).
Jan Pronk has two honorary degrees: from the San Marco University, Peru, and the Institute of Social Studies. He was knighted in the Order of the Netherlands Lion and is a member of four chivalric orders. The Institute of Social Studies awarded its honorary Social Studies awarded its honorary doctorate to Jan Pronk in 2002.
1997
Inaugural Lecture: The politics of institutional diversity in South African higher education: tension between equity and excellence
Prof. Mamphela Ramphele was born on 28th December 1947 near Pietersburg, in what is now called Polokwane in Limpopo Province, South Africa. She qualified as a medical doctor in 1972 from the University of Natal, received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Cape Town, a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Administration from the University of South Africa and diplomas in Tropical Health and Hygiene and Public Health from the University of Witwatersrand. Her career spans a wide spectrum - doctor, civil rights leader, community development worker, academic researcher, university administrator - and she has served on many boards of major corporations and NGOs.
Prof. Ramphele started her career as a student activist against apartheid in the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) where she was a founder member alongside Steve Biko. She joined the University of Cape Town as a research fellow in 1986 and rose to become its first black woman Vice Chancellor in 1996. In 2000, she was the first South African to become one of the four Managing Directors of the World Bank where her task was to oversee the strategic positioning and operations at the World Bank institute, as well as vice presidency of External Affairs. She served as a trustee to the Nelson Mandela’s children’s fund and The Link SA fund for underprivileged students, was director of Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA) and a board member of the Anglo American Corporation and Transnet. In 2004, Prof. Ramphele was voted 55th among the top 100 great South Africans.
Ramphele has received eighteen honorary degrees and numerous awards, including:
- An Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Hunter College of the City University of New York in 1984.
- An Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Tufts University in May 1991.
- An Honorary Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Natal.
- The Medal of Distinction from Barnard College in the United States.
- Ramphele is also a former fellow of the Bunting Institute and was elected as an honorary member of the Alpha and Iota chapters of Phi Beta Kappa at Radcliffe and Harvard Colleges.
- An Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters degree from New York University in May 2007
- Honorary fellow of the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. Public lecture delivered on 24 September 1998: The politics of institutional diversity in South African higher education: tension between equity and excellence.
1997
Professor Benno Ndulu is best known for his involvement in setting up and developing one of the most effective research and training networks in Africa, the African Economic Research Consortium. He served first as its Research director and later as its Executive Director. He received a honorary doctorate from ISS in recognition of his contributions to Capacity Building and Research on Africa in 1997. Following his the completion of his PhD degree in economics from Northwestern University in Evanston, he taught economics and published widely on growth, adjustment, governance and trade.
1992
Professor Linnemann (1931 - 2016) was a prominent Dutch economist who contributed to development economics through his extensive writings on the subject, as well as during his years that he lectured in Development Economics at ISS and the Free University of Amsterdam, where he has lectured extensively until 1992.
1992
Dr Subrata Roy Chowdhury has distinguished himself as a practitioner both in the Supreme Court of India and in the Calcutta High Court. Less well known to members of the Indian Bar who are more often involved only in the municipal law issues is his role as a public international law scholar. " Rule of Law in a State of Emergency" is his third major book in the area of public international law.
Mr Roy Chowdhury is an activist in the area of international human rights law. As Professor Richard Lillich makes clear in the foreword to the book, the Paris Minimum Standards of Human Rights Norms in a State of Emergency adopted by the International Law Association in 1984 were originally Mr Roy Chowdhury's idea. He chaired the ILA sub-committee that drafted and revised the Paris Minimum Standards. In this book, Mr Roy Chowdhury builds on his work as Chairman of the sub-committee and expands on the Paris Minimum Standards by careful and painstaking analysis of state practice and the work of international monitoring bodies. Mr Subrata Roy Chowdhury has distinguished himself as a practitioner both in the Supreme Court of India and in the Calcutta High Court. Less well known to members of the Indian Bar who are more often involved only in the municipal law issues is his role as a public international law scholar. " Rule of Law in a State of Emergency" is his third major book in the area of public international law. Mr Roy Chowdhury is an activist in the area of international human rights law. As Professor Richard Lillich makes clear in the foreword to the book, the Paris Minimum Standards of Human Rights Norms in a State of Emergency adopted by the International Law Association in 1984 were originally Mr Roy Chowdhury's idea. He chaired the ILA sub-committee that drafted and revised the Paris Minimum Standards. In this book, Mr Roy Chowdhury builds on his work as Chairman of the sub-committee and expands on the Paris Minimum Standards by careful and painstaking analysis of state practice and the work of international monitoring bodies.
The Paris Minimum Standards are based on norms derived from international human rights covenants. They are intended to ensure that the rule of law is upheld even after a bona fide declaration of a state of emergency.
The Institute of Social Studies awarded its honorary doctorate to Subrata Roy Chowdhury in 1992.
1988
Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Jonkheer of Amsberg was born on September 6, 1926 and died on October 6, 2002 at the age of 76 . He was a German-born aristocrat who became the husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands at a wedding ceremony held on 10th March 1966. Upon his marriage he became HRH Prince Claus of the Netherlands. His parents were Claus Felix Friedrich Leopold Gabriel Archim Julius August von Amsberg and Gösta Julie Adelheid Marion Marie Baroness von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen. His father operated a large farm in Tanganyika from 1928 until World War II. Claus and his six sisters grew up at their grandparents' manor in Lower Saxony. Claus also attended a boarding school in Tanzania from 1936 to 1938 and the Baltenschule Misdroy from 1938 until 1942. Prince Claus and Queen Beatrix' three sons are: Prince Willem-Alexander in 1967, Prince Johan Friso in 1968 and Prince Constantijn in 1969.
The Queen and Prince Claus took an interest in important events in the Netherlands and kept themselves fully informed of social and economic developments in the country and the concerns of its people. They regularly visited the provinces. During these working visits, Prince Claus devoted particular attention to technological innovation and music. He was also interested in the preservation of historic buildings, nature conservation, the environment and urban and regional planning. He frequently visited public utility organizations, commercial and industrial enterprises, companies in the agriculture and fisheries sector, and organizations in the commercial sector.
In 1984, Prince Claus accepted four new posts in addition to his post of Special Adviser on Development Cooperation. In the same year, he became Inspector-General for Development Cooperation, member of the Board of Directors of both De Nederlandsche Bank N.V. and Royal PTT Nederland, and Chair of the Transport and Public Works Export Platform until 1998.
To mark Prince Claus's seventieth birthday, the Prince Claus FundOpens external for Culture and Development was established at the initiative of the Dutch government. The objective of the Fund is to enhance understanding of cultures and to promote interaction between culture and development. Prince Claus occupied the post of Honorary Chair.
Prince Claus was appointed Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in 1988. Prince Claus was held in very high esteem in the international development cooperation community, partly because of his considerable insight and understanding of the problems involved, and partly because of his exceptional gift for expressing the hopes and anxieties felt by all.
1988
Lucille Mair (1924 - 2009) was well-known for her historical study of women in Jamaica. She was as ambassador to the United Nations. Lucille Mair became Secretary-General of the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women held in Copenhagen in 1980 at the mid-point of the Decade for Women.
In 1983, she was invited to serve as Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Question of Palestine which was held in Geneva and she also became a special adviser to UNICEF on Women's Development. She was also as first woman to hold the title of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
She was interested in women’s rights, in particular health. She argued that 'If a woman's health is not good, she more than likely holds a subordinate status in her society.'
Dr. Lucille Mathurin Mair was accorded the highly deserved honour of fifth recipient of the CARICOM Triennial Award in 1996, and she is also a Founding member of development alternative with women for a new era (DAWN).
The Institute of Social Studies awarded its honorary doctorate to Lucille Mair in 1988.
1982
Rodolfo Stavenhagen was born in 1932 and died in November 2016. He was a Mexican sociologist; professor-researcher at El Colegio de México and former Deputy Director General of UNESCO. In 2001, he was appointed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people through Resolution 2001/57. His mandate expired on 30 April 2008.
The Institute of Social Studies awarded its honorary doctorate to Rodolfo Stavenhagen in 1982.
1982
Professor Amartya Sen’s intellectual achievements and contributions to welfare economics have earned him the prestigious title of ‘Nobel laureate in Economics (1998 Nobel prize in Economics)’.
Sen was born in Santiniketan, India and is an alumnus of Trinity College, Cambridge and the Presidency College in Calcutta. He also taught at both these universities, later becoming the first non-British Master of Trinity College. His writings on overcoming poverty, deprivation, environmental threats, violation of human rights and economic sustainability - central to his approach to ‘Development as Freedom’ - are fundamental to the theory and practice of development.
Sen’s highly acclaimed work in ‘Welfare Economics’ has earned him several distinguished awards, including the 'Bharat Ratna'” (the highest honour awarded by the President of India). He has also been conferred honorary doctorates by prominent academic institutions the world over, including the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in 1982.
1982
Manfred H. Lachs (April 21, 1914 Stanislav/Ivano-Frankivs'k, Austrian Galicia - January 14, 1993) was a Polish diplomat and jurist who greatly influenced in the development of international law after World War II. He attended the Cracow Jagiellonian University where he earned a doctorate in Law (1937). Right after his studies, he started working for the Consular Academy of Vienna and afterwards in the London School of Economics. Lachs was drafted into the army and throughout his military service he was advisor to the Polish government.
A judge of the International Court of Justice for twenty-six years - and a past President (1973-1976) – he served longer than anyone else on the Court. Before his election to the Court in 1966, he played a leading role in the major international legal organs of the United Nations.
Judge Manfred H. Lachs received numerous honours from all over the world, including a Honorary Fellowship at the Institute of Social Studies in 1982. After his death, the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot was named in his honour.
1979
Born in 1904, Kurt Martin was one of the most distinguished development economists of his generation and is recognized worldwide as one of the pioneers of development theory. He joined ISS in 1969 as Professor in Development Economics and stayed until 1986. Kurt Martin died in September 1995, a few weeks before his 91st birthday. His last reader, Strategies of economic development: readings in the political economy of industrialization on the evolution of development economics theory, was published in 1991.
Kurt Martin made institutions a central feature of his work. He stressed their importance throughout the history of economic theory itself and also in the philosophical foundations of the subject. Nonetheless, he felt that economic institutions were the result of historically embedded processes of social conflict rather than simply a solution to problems of transaction costs and collective actions and dilemmas.
The Institute of Social Studies awarded its honorary doctorate to Kurt Martin in 1979.
1977
Raúl Prebisch (1901–1986) was an Argentine economist known for his contribution to structuralist economics, in particular the Prebisch-Singer hypothesisOpens external that formed the basis of economic dependency theoryOpens external.
Prebisch joined the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) where he was the Executive Secretary from 1950 to 1963. He was Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) from 1964 to 1969. In 1977 he received a Honorary Fellowship at the Institute of Social Studies.
He is known primarily for his work in international and development economics as well as his immense contributions to the United Nation's effort to achieve a fairer international economic order.
1977
Sir Hans Wolfgang Singer (29 November 1910 – 26 February 2006) was a development economist best known for the Singer-Prebisch thesisOpens external, which states that the terms of trade move against producers of primary products. He is one of the primary figures in heterodox economics.
Sir Hans Singer was Emeritus Professor of the University of Sussex and had been Professorial Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies since 1969. Prior to that he held a variety of posts in the United Nations, including Director of the Economic Division of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and Director of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and was closely involved in the Bretton Woods Agreement and the building of the post-war global financial institutional framework.
His many books, journal articles and reports, as director of various field missions, constitute a unique record of economic development, especially the divide between rich and poor countries, across most of the 20th Century. Of most unusual interest are the unpublished lectures and festschrift for his 85th birthday in 1995 (see publications list below).
The Institute of Social Studies awarded its honorary doctorate to Hans Singer in 1977.
1967
Ursula Hicks (1896–1985) was an Irish-born economist and academic. She was a renowned public finance and development economist. Hicks was also one of the founders of the Review of Economic Studies. Lady Ursula Hicks received a Honorary Fellowship at ISS in 1967.
1966
Professor Egbert de Vries was a prominent agricultural scientist in the latter years of the Dutch Colonial period. In 1934, Professor de Vries became the second initiator of Transmigration programme in Indonesia after Soekarno. Transmigration from Java Island to outside Java was implemented in order to reduce poverty. Interestingly, he is quite famous during the colonial era in which he provided first hand information about the economic situation in Indonesia. Indeed, as a consultant to the Indonesian government, he revisited Indonesia several times in the 1960s to 1970s.
He was born in 1901 in Grijpskerke (Zeeland, The Netherlands) and he was the head of the Economic Resource Section and economic adviser to The World Bank in Washington DC. Egbert de Vries was the first full-time rector of ISS (1956-1966). He was also as Emeritus Professor in International Development at the University of Pittsburgh. The Institute of Social Studies awarded its honorary doctorate to Egbert de Vries in 1966.
In 1979, Professor De Vries was invited by The Ford Foundation to revisit the places in Java and North Sumatra where he had worked during the pre-war years. In his observation, he found that specific circumstances such as geography and available labour were the reason of complicatedly indigenous agriculture. He also adopted an individual extension approach that could concentrate on outstanding farmers, who could become pioneering example for their colleagues.
1962
Jan Tinbergen (1903 – 1994) was the eldest of five children of Dirk Cornelis Tinbergen and Jeannette van Eek. From 1929 till 1945 he worked, in addition to his professorship at Erasmus University Rotterdam, for the Dutch statistical office. He was also consultant to the League of Nations. From 1945 till 1955 he served as the first director of the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis. Jan Tinbergen was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science and of the International Academy of Science. In 1956 he founded the Econometric Institute at the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam together with Henri Theil, who also was his successor in Rotterdam. The Tinbergen InstituteOpens external was named in his honour.
Tinbergen became known for his 'Tinbergen Norm', which states that if the difference between the lowest and highest income in a company exceeds a rate of 1:5, that will not help the company and may indeed be counterproductive.
Tinbergen developed the first national comprehensive macroeconomic model, which he built for the Netherlands and later applied to the United States and the United Kingdom after World War II.
Jan Tinbergen received his ISS Honorary Doctorate in 1962.
1962
The Institute of Social Studies awarded its honorary doctorate to Mohammed Tewfiq Ramzi in 1962.
1962
Paul Narcyz Rosenstein-Rodan (1902 – 1985) was an Austrian economist born in Kraków, who was trained in the Austrian tradition under Hans Mayer in Vienna. His early contributions to economics were in pure economic theory — on marginal utility, complementarity, hierarchical structures of wants and the pervasive Austrian School issue of time. Rosenstein-Rodan emigrated to Britain in 1930, and taught at UCLOpens external and then at LSEOpens external until 1947. He then moved to the World BankOpens external, before moving on to MITOpens external, where he was a professor from 1953 to 1968.
He is the author of the 1943 article "Problems of Industrialisation of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe" - origin of the 'Big Push Model'Opens external theory - in which he argued for planned large-scale investment programmes in industrialization in countries with a large surplus workforce in agriculture, in order to take advantage of network effects, viz economies of scale and scope, to escape the low level equilibrium 'trap'. He thus developed a theme laid out by Allyn Young in his 1928 article 'Increasing Returns and Economic Progress', in which the latter himself expanded a theme formulated by Adam Smith in 1776.
The Institute of Social Studies awarded its honorary doctorate to Paul Rosenstein-Rodan in 1962.
1962
1962
Oskar Ryszard Lange (July 27, 1904 in Tomaszów Mazowiecki – October 2, 1965 in London, United Kingdom) was a Polish economist and diplomat. He was best known for advocating the use of market pricing tools in socialist systems and providing the earliest model of market socialism. Oskar Lange received a Honorary Fellowship at ISS in 1962.
1962
Peter Kuenstler was born in Hampstead in London in December 1919. He was educated at the Hall School 1926-1933, at Rugby School (classical scholarship) 1933-38, at Oriel College, Oxford (classical scholarship) 1938-40, and at Oxford House 1940-1948.
From 1948 to 1955 he was Research Fellow in Youth Work in the Institute of Education at Bristol University, during which time he was Director of Youth work training courses at the International People's College, Elsinore, Denmark, Consultant to British and American authorities in Germany, and a Consultant to the Governor of Uganda Protectorate (1953). From 1955 to 1964 he was Secretary of the African Development Trust in London, also lecturing part-time at the London School of Economics, and at Barnett House, the Department of Social and Administrative Studies at Oxford University. He also acted as UN Adviser on community development to the Government of Greece, and as Director of a course for Youth Officials from anglophone African countries for the German Foundation for Developing Countries, West Berlin.
From 1964 to 1979 Peter was a Social Affairs Officer with the United Nations. He was Interregional adviser on Youth (1965-7), Interagency Youth Liaison Officer (1967 to 1979) and Adviser to the Government of Botswana on youth and community development (1973-75).
In 1980 he was Visiting Professor at the School of Advanced Social Studies, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, in the United States, before becoming Secretary of a working party at the Gulbenkian Foundation, London (1980-82).
From 1982 to 1993 he was a Director of the Centre for Employment Initiatives (London and Brussels). Projects included the organization for the European Commission of over 30 consultations in different countries and evaluations of the Danish Volunteer Service and of British VSO.
In his last working years he led advisory missions to Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria for the EC from 1993 to 1996, and was Team leader for a World Bank mission on Social Welfare in Macedonia.
The Institute of Social Studies awarded its honorary doctorate to Peter Künstler in 1962.
1962
Dattatreya Gopal Karve (December 24, 1898 – December 28, 1967) was an Indian economist and professor who contributed to the fields of economics, public administration and the cooperative movement in India. His father died when he was one year old, placing a financial burden on the remaining family. Supported by his mother, he studied at the New English School in Pune and later at Fergusson College. He failed a first-year college examination — an experience that spurred him to bring his academic and life goals into clearer focus. He studied under the distinguished Indian economist Professor V.G. Kale, and in 1921 was awarded the Cobden Club Medal for winning first prize in economics on his BA examination.
In 1923, Karve joined the Deccan Education Society as a professor of economics. In 1932 he succeeded Professor Kale as Head of the Economics Department at Fergusson College, Pune. In June 1935 the Deccan Education Society appointed him Principal of Willingdon College, Sangli, an institute suffering from low numbers and poor academic standing. By the end of his five-year term the college had seen significant improvements in its enrollment, finances and its reputation. He returned to Fergusson College as Head of the History-Economics Department in 1940. He went on to become the first Principal of the newly-formed Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce in 1943. Recognition of his contributions to the field of economics led to his election as President of the All-India Economic Conference in 1945 and President of the All-India Agricultural Economic Conference in 1956. He served as Vice Chancellor of the University of Poona from 1959 to 1961.
Recognizing that economic policies are unlikely to be successful without effective planning and administration, D.G. Karve worked to educate and promote state planning in India. His contributions to public administration included serving as Chairman of the Bombay Administrative Enquiry Committee, and later as Director of the Indian Institute of Public Administration in 1954.
He contributed to India's cooperative movement using his background in agricultural economics to encourage state participation in cooperation. He was chosen to become a Director of the Bombay State Cooperative Bank, Vice-Chairman of the State Bank of India (1960-1962) and Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (1962-1964). During his tenure at the Reserve Bank of India he served as Chairman of the Central Committee of Cooperative Training – a position that helped spread the cooperative model widely within India. He went on to serve as a special consultant to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. He participated in and chaired several commissions of the International Cooperative Alliance, and was Chairman of the 23rd session of the International Cooperative Congress in Vienna in 1966. The Institute of Social Studies awarded its honorary doctorate to Dattatreya Gopal Karve in 1962.
In 2005 the Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce (BMCC) established the Principal D.G. Karve Chair in Economics and Commerce. D.G. Karve served as the first Principal of the BMCC in 1943.