Evan M. Berman is a professor of public management and director of internationalization at the Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) School of Government. He is a distinguished Fulbright scholar, senior editor of Public Performance and Management Review, and founding editor of the American Society for Public Administration’s book series on public administration and public policy. Berman has widely published in all of the major journals of the discipline. His related books in this series include Public Administration in East Asia, Public Administration in Southeast Asia, and Public Administration in South Asia. His areas of expertise include public performance and human resource management, and he is a co-author of the leading textbook Human Resource Management in Public Service as well as Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts.
Nikolaos Karagiannis is Professor of Economics at Winston-Salem State University, North Carolina, and the co-editor of the journal American Review of Political Economy (ARPE). He has authored, co-authored, and co-edited 18 books, and has published over 70 papers in scholarly journals and edited books, and over 60 short papers and articles in newspapers, magazines, and electronic media sources in the areas of economic development, public sector economics, and macroeconomic policy analysis. Karagiannis is particularly interested in Developmental State theory and policy, and his research has focused extensively on the applicability of this interventionist perspective in different contexts such as EU countries, the United States, Caribbean small island economies, and North African countries. His latest books include The U.S. Economy and Neoliberalism: Alternative Strategies and Policies (hardcover and paperback), and Europe in Crisis: Problems, Challenges, and Alternative Perspectives.
Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi is Professor of Economics at Winston-Salem State University. He is the former Chief Economist of the City and County of San Francisco and was a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at The University of the West Indies, Mona in Kingston, Jamaica from 2003 to 2006. The former President of the Southern Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, Madjd-Sadjadi has published extensively in the history of economic thought, political economy, and law and economics, including two books through Business Expert Press on The Economics of Civil and Common Law and The Economics of Crime.
Indianna D. Minto-Coy is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mona School of Business and Management, University of the West Indies, Jamaica. She is also a research affiliate at the International Migration Research Centre at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. Minto-Coy has held appointments at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School of the University of Oxford, the University of Waterloo, the Centre for International Governance Innovation (where she also coordinated the research component of the Caribbean Economic Governance Project), and the Shridath Ramphal Centre for Trade Policy, Law and Services, University of the West Indies, Barbados. Minto-Coy’s work spans areas of public policy, ICTs, migration and diasporas, and entrepreneurship. She holds a PhD (Law) from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences.
Debbie A. Mohammed obtained her PhD from the University of the West Indies in 2005. She is a Senior Lecturer in International Trade at the Institute of International Relations and the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago and one of five members of the EU-LAC Academic Council. She is the author of one book and has published extensively in academic journals and contributed book chapters to several important scholarly works in the areas of Caribbean economic development, competitiveness, regional economic integration, and trade facilitation. Her current research focuses on culture and governance as transformative factors for socioeconomic development. Mohammed uses Twitter and Facebook to advance specific issues relating to governance and development.
Denise Pearson has worked in the higher education community for more than 20 years. She is currently employed at Winston-Salem State University as senior associate dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, Business and Education, and Professor of Education. Prior to joining Winston-Salem State University, Pearson worked at the University of Denver, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, as associate dean. Pearson’s research interests involve issues related to organizational leadership and conflict management, with an emphasis on higher education and historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). In 2006, she was hosted as a visiting professor in the Conflict Management Program at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. She also worked collaboratively on a U.S. Department of Education grant between the University of Denver and the University of the West Indies to build conflict-resolution capacity in Trinidad & Tobago communities. Pearson received a PhD in Administration and Supervision of Education from Marquette University, MA in Conflict Resolution from the University of Denver, MS in Education Administration from Concordia University, and BA in Human Services from Pace University.
C. J. Polychroniou is a political economist/political scientist who has taught and worked in universities and research centers in Europe and the United States. His main research interests are in European economic integration, globalization, the political economy of the United States, and the deconstruction of neoliberalism’s politico-economic project. He is a regular contributor to Al Jazeera and Truthout as well as a member of Truthout’s Public Intellectual Project. He has published several books and his articles have appeared in a variety of journals, magazines, newspapers, and popular news websites. Many of his publications have been translated into several foreign languages, including Croatian, French, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish.