Events
PAIS Departmental Seminar Series: Jennifer Brinkerhoff: The Diaspora Advantage: Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Institutional Reform
Professor Jennifer Brinkerhoff, Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs;
Co-Director, GW Diaspora Program (George Washington University)
3.30pm Refreshements
4pm Seminar
Professor Brinkerhoff is specialist in international development, governance, public-private partnerships, NGOs, and diaspora politics. Her publications include six books, three co-edited journal issues, and over fifty articles and book chapters on topics ranging from policy evaluation, to NGOs, failed states, governance, diaspora identity, development, and citizenship. She is the author of Digital Diasporas: Identity and Transnational Engagement (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Partnership for International Development: Rhetoric or Results? (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002); the editor of Diasporas and Development: Exploring the Potential (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008); and co-editor of NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007).
Dr. Maria Koinova