Anthony Clunies-Ross

Anthony Clunies-Ross is an Australian long resident in Scotland, graduate of Melbourne and Cambridge. He has taught at Monash University in Melbourne, the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow; briefly also at the University of Melbourne (in history), and part-time at the University of Glasgow, with additional very brief teaching assignments at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Government College University Lahore and the University of Peshawar, and a six-month research period at the University of the Philippines. He worked at the University of Papua New Guinea from 1967 to 1974, with subsequent short periods of consultancy and research. His interests have centred round public finance for developing countries. His publications (joint or sole) include One Per Cent: the case for greater Australian foreign aid (with R I Downing and others, Melbourne U.P.,1963), Australia and Nuclear Weapons (with Peter King, Sydney U.P., 1966), Alternative Strategies for Papua New Guinea (ed. with John Langmore, Oxford U.P., 1971), Taxation of Mineral Rent (with Ross Garnaut, Oxford U.P., 1983), Migrants from Fifty Villages (Papua New Guinea I.E.S.R.,1984), Economic Stabilization for Developing Countries (Edward Elgar, 1991), Albania’s Economy in Transition and Turmoil, 1990-1997 (ed. with Petar Sudar, Ashgate,1998), Making the World Autonomous: a global role for the European Union (Dunedin Academic Press, 2005), and a report ‘Resources for social development’ for the ILO’s World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization (2003).

David J.C. Forsyth

David Forsyth is an Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He studied at Aberdeen University and the University of Virginia before embarking on an academic career which has taken him to lecturing posts at the University of Strathclyde, Aberdeen University, the University of Ghana, Carleton University (Ottawa), and the University of the South Pacific (Fiji), where he was Head of the Department of Economics for twelve years. He has also been a staff member of the International Labour Office (specialising in Technology Policy) and, recently, of the Commonwealth Secretariat (as Multilateral Trade Policy Adviser). His main areas of interest are Development Economics and International Trade. Extensive consultancy work in both fields has involved 'missions' in over twenty African countries, in India, and in all fourteen of the independent island countries of the North and South Pacific. His published work includes books on Technology Policy for Small Economies (Macmillan) and on U.S. Investment in Scotland, (Praeger), and articles in numerous journals -- including The Economic Journal, Oxford Economic Papers, World Development, The Journal of Developing Areas, The British Journal of Industrial Relations, Sociology of Education, The British Journal of Educational Studies, Regional Studies and The New Scientist. Professor Forsyth is based, once again, in Scotland – devoting his limited leisure time to discovering, by rail, the many European countries over which, for thirty years, he flew en route to the developing world.

Mozammel Huq

Born in Bangladesh, Mozammel Huq is a graduate of the Universities of Rajshahi (BA Hons and MA) and Glasgow (MLitt and PhD). His career includes extensive teaching experience(especially in Bangladesh and the UK), and wide-ranging research on Third World development – in which his detailed, first-hand knowledge of the development experience of a large number of countries of Asia and Africa has proved invaluable. He has published in various international journals including World Development, Pakistan Development Review, Journal of International Development, and Bangladesh Development Studies. He is the author of a number of books including The Economy of Ghana: The First 25 Years since Independence (Macmillan, 1989); Fertilizer Manufacture in Bangladesh (UPL,1992) and Machinery Manufacturing in Bangladesh (UPL ,1993). He has also edited several books including Science, Technology and Development: North-South Co-operation (Frank Cass, 1991), Strategies for Industrialisation: The Case of Bangladesh, (UPL, 2000), Building Technological Capability: Issues and Prospects – Nepal, Bangladesh and India (UPL, 2003), and Technology and Development in the New Millennium (Karachi University, 2003). He has been a consultant to the ILO, EU, UNDP and the Commonwealth Secretariat. He has worked in and/or collaborated with a number of developing-country institutions including Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies; the Centre of Development Studies, the University of Cape Coast; the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nigeria; the Science & Technology Evaluation and Policy Research Unit of Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology; and the Department of Economics, G C University, Lahore, Pakistan. Dr. Huq has taught for over 30 years at the University of Strathclyde, besides participating in a number of research projects there. Currently, he is also a Visiting Professor of Economics at Uttar Bangla College (National University, Bangladesh).