Charles Victor Barber is a Senior Associate in the Biological Resources and Institutions Program of the World Resources Institute (WRI). He has worked on Indonesian environmental issues for over a decade and lived there for three years in the late 1980s. He has authored numerous publications including Breaking the Logjam: Obstacles to Forest Policy Reform in Indonesia and the United States (1994); Tiger by the Tail?: Reorienting Biodiversity Conservation and Development in Indonesia (1995); and Eye of the Tiger: Conservation Politics and Policy on Sumatra's Last Rainforest Frontier (forthcoming). He was also a principal writer of the Global Biodiversity Strategy (1992), published by WRI, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and other international agencies. Since 1994 Barber has been based in the Philippines, where he manages a range of WRI projects in Southeast Asia and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Philippine Environment. He received his Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy, J.D. and M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
Elizabeth Economy is a Fellow for China at the Council on Foreign Relations. She also co-chairs the Woodrow Wilson Center working group on China and the Environment. Previously she taught Chinese foreign policy and international environmental politics at the University of Washington. Her recent publications include a forthcoming book with Miranda Shreurs, The Internationalization of Environmental Politics (Cambridge Press, 1997). Dr. Economy received her B.A. with Honors from Swarthmore College with a major in Political Science and a minor in Russian. She received her A.M. in Political Science from Stanford, University, and her Ph.D. in that same subject from the University of Michigan.
Valerie Percival received her Bachelor's degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Toronto and her Master's degree in Conflict Analysis from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs in Ottawa. She has worked at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) as the lead researcher for the Preliminary Project on Environment, Poverty and Conflict. She was also a research associate at the University of Toronto and produced case studies for the Project on Environment, Population and Security and the State Capacity Project.
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