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TNI is made up of its Fellows (activist researchers from around the world), its staff working in different projects, and contributors (key allies from social movements and institutes worldwide).

  • Achin Vanaik , Fellow

    Vanaik is one of the leading analysts on globalisation, democracy and security issues in South Asia, a renowned specialist on nuclear arms, and and a co-founder of the Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament (MIND), and South Asians Against Nukes. As...

  • Adriana Rossi , Contributor

    Adriana Rossi coordinates Centro del Sur, the Center for Study and Research on Drugs and Drugs Trafficking of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR) in Argentina. She is a contributing member of the Drugs & Democracy team. Rossi also accompanied...

  • Amira Armenta , Staff

    Amira Armenta (Colombia/Netherlands) has a degree in Latin American history from the Université de Jussieu (Paris).

  • Atilio Boron , Contributor

    Atilio Boron is Director of the Latin American Programme of Distance Education in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a collaborator of TNI's New Politics project. He is also ex-Secretary General of CLACSO – an academic umbrella body for Latin America.

  • Barry K Gills , Contributor

    Barry K Gills is Professor of Global Politics at Newcastle University and editor of Globalizations journal, and 'Rethinking Globalizations' book series.

  • Ben Hayes , Fellow

    Ben Hayes is a TNI researcher who has worked for the civil liberties organisation Statewatch since 1996, specialising in EU Justice and Home Affairs law, police cooperation, border controls, surveillance technologies and counter-terrorism policies....

  • Boris Kagarlitsky , Fellow

    Boris Kagarlitsky is a well-known international commentator on Russian politics and society. Boris was a deputy to the Moscow City Soviet between 1990-93, during which time he was a member of the executive of the Socialist Party of Russia, co-founder...

  • Brian Ashley , Contributor

    Brian Ashley has been an activist for many years in South Africa and is editor of Amandla magazine. He was former director of the Alternative
    Information and Development Centre, a partner organisation of TNI.

  • Brid Brennan , Fellow

    Brid has put Transnational Institute at the heart of dynamic international networks from every continent campaigning against trade liberalisation. She is co-founder of the European Solidarity Centre for the Philippines and most recently, RESPECT, a...

  • Cecilia Olivet , Staff

    Maria Cecilia Olivet is Uruguayan, has a BA degree in International Relations from Universidad de la República in Uruguay and an MA in International Politics and East Asia from Warwick University, UK.

  • Chaohua Wang , Contributor

    Chaohua Wang was a member of the standing committee of the Beijing Autonomous Association of College Students in the spring of 1989, and after 4 June was on the Chinese government’s most-wanted list. She has frequently participated in TNI events on the...

  • Cynthia Enloe , Contributor

    Cynthia Enloe is a prominent feminist writer based at Brown University. She worked with TNI's Feminism Project, and has mobilised academics in support of the international no-bases network.

  • Daniel Chavez , Fellow

    Daniel Chavez is a Uruguayan anthropologist specialising in Latin American politics and urban social and political movements. With an intimate knowledge of Latin American left politics and an advisor to various local governments on participatory local...

  • Daphne Wysham , Contributor

    Daphne Wysham is a former TNI fellow and co-director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network of the Institute of Policy Studies.

  • David Fig , Contributor

    David Fig is TNI's agrofuels researcher in South Africa.

  • David Sogge , Fellow

    Transnational Institute Board member, David works as an independent advisor for grant-making agencies, specialising in civil society. Research and other professional activities in Africa provided a basis for books and articles on Angola and Mozambique...

  • Denis Halliday , Contributor

    Denis Halliday is part of TNI/Dag Hammarskjold's UN reform project, and a former UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq who resigned in protest at sanctions which he condemned as "genocide." He continues to be active on Middle Eastern affairs promoting...

  • Dot Keet , Fellow

    Dot Keet is a South African academic and activist involved in many national, African and international networks resisting corporate "free trade" agreements.  She is an active member of the national South African Trade Strategy Group (TSG) and the...

  • Edgardo Lander , Fellow

    Lander is one of the leading thinkers and writers on the left in Venezuela, both supportive and constructively critical of the Venezuelan revolution under Chavez. He is actively involved in social movements in the Americas that defeated the Free Trade...

  • Ernestien Jensema , Staff

    Ernestien Jensema (1971) is a social anthropologist who researches and analyses the UN drug control system, Dutch drug policy and the Drugs and Democracy Programme’s Asia project.

  • Fiona Dove , Staff

    Fiona Dove has been Executive Director of TNI since 1995. She holds degrees in Development Studies and Industrial Sociology, and is currently undertaking a post-graduate diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation Methods.

    A second generation African...

  • Frank Slijper , Contributor

    Frank Slijper is a senior researcher at the Dutch campaign against the arms trade (Campagne tegen Wapenhandel) and an associate of the Transnational Institute (TNI)....

  • Fred Halliday , Contributor

    Fred Halliday, professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, was TNI Fellow from 1975 till 2000.

  • Gonzalo Berrón , Associated Fellow

    Gonzalo Berrón, TNI Associate Fellow, has played a leading role in coordinating Latin American movements resisting corporate "Free Trade Agreements." He has been an integral part of ongoing discussions with civil society and progressive governments on...

  • Hilary Wainwright , Fellow

    Hilary Wainwright is a leading researcher and writer on the emergence of new forms of democratic accountability within parties, movements and the state. She is the driving force and editor behind Red Pepper, a popular British new left magazine, and has...

  • Howard Wachtel , Fellow

    Howard Wachtel is an expert on the financialisation of the global economy who foresaw the financial crisis long before it struck in autumn 2008. His book in 2003 Street of Dreams. Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century (...

  • Hugo Cabieses , Contributor

    Hugo Cabieses, Peruvian economist and specialist on drugs issues, is an associate researcher of TNI's Drugs & Democracy programme.

  • Janet Redman , Contributor

    Janet is co-director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network at the Institute for Policy Studies, where she provides analysis of the international financial institutions’ energy investment and carbon finance activities.

  • Jennifer Franco , Staff

    Jennifer Franco, PhD., is an independent researcher based in Canada, where she also serves on the Asia Committee for International Development Programs at the development NGO Development and Peace (Developpement et Paix). Her previous work has focused...

  • Joanna Cabello , Contributor

    Joanna Cabello is a researcher with Carbon Trade Watch, a project of the Transnational Institute

  • Jochen Hippler , Fellow

    Former TNI director (1993-95), Jochen Hippler is a specialist on the Muslim Middle East (mostly Arab countries) and Central Asian politics (mostly Afghanistan and Pakistan).

    In addition to his fellowship at the University of Duisburg-Essen (...

  • Joel Rocamora , Fellow

    Former Co-Director of TNI, Joel Rocamora has been working for several decades on issues of democracy, governance, and social movements within the Philippines.

    Rocamora coordinated TNI's early work on the Philippines while he was in political...

  • John Cavanagh , Fellow

    John Cavanagh has been Director of IPS since 1998 and a founding fellow of TNI.  He worked as an international economist for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (1978-1981) and the World Health Organization (1981-1982). ...

  • John Gittings , Contributor

    John Gittings is a former TNI fellow, long time Guardian foreign editor and an independent journalist specialised on China and nuclear weapon issues.

  • José Henrique R... , Contributor

    Judge of the Sixth Appellate Court of the High Court of Justice in Sao Paulo, Brazil

  • Juan Carlos Monedero , Contributor

    Juan Carlos Monedero is Professor of Political Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid and Research Co-ordinator at the Centro Internacional Miranda in Caracas, and a collaborator with the New Politics Programme.

  • Jun Borras , Fellow

    Saturnino 'Jun' M Borras Jr. is a political activist and academic who has been deeply involved in rural social movements in the Philippines and internationally since the early 1980s. Borras was part of the core organising team that established the...

  • Kamil Mahdi , Fellow

    Kamil Mahdi is an experienced analyst of Middle Eastern politics and economics, in particular the political economy of oil-exporting countries. 

    Mahdi is secretary of the International Association of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, researching...

  • Kees Biekart , Fellow

    Kees Biekart has co-ordinated TNI projects on and with the Central American peasant movement, and the politics of European NGO aid to civil society organisations in the South.

    Biekart's latest works include The Politics of Civil Society...

  • Kees Kimman , Staff

    Kees is in charge of finance, administrative, and personnel issues for TNI.

  • Kevin Smith , Staff

    Kevin Smith has been working with the environmental justice project at TNI since 2005, although he has been more informally involved since it started out as Carbon Trade Watch in 2002. He has a degree in Human Sciences. He used to be the editor of the...

  • Larry Lohmann , Contributor

    Larry Lohmann from the Corner House is a co-founder of the Durban Group for Climate Justice, together with members of TNI's Carbon Trade Watch.

  • Lucia Goldfarb , Staff

    Lucia Goldfarb received an MA in Development Studies with a minor in Environment and Development from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague in 2006. In 2007-2008 she joined TNI as a Next Generation Scholar. She is currently co-coordinator of the...

  • Luisa Mendonca , Contributor

    Luisa Mendonca is a TNI researcher on agrofuels in Brazil.

  • Manuel Perez Rocha , Contributor

    Manuel Perez Rocha is an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, and regular contributor to TNI's Alternative Regionalisms programme who has been associated with TNI since 1996 when he...

  • Marcos Arruda , Fellow

    Arruda is an economist and veteran popular educator, who has worked closely with Brazilian labour and co-operative movements for many years.

    Arruda has served as an advisor to local governments and the Workers' Party (PT) in his region, and is...

  • Mariano Aguirre , Fellow

    Mariano Aguirre is a journalist and analyst with considerable expertise on peacebuilding, crisis of the state, humanitarian action, conflict and development, and post-conflict rehabilitation. 

    Prior to his work for the Norwegian...

  • Martin Jelsma , Fellow

    Martin Jelsma is a political scientist who has specialised in Latin America and international drugs policy.  In 2005, he received the Alfred R. Lindesmith Award for Achievement in the Field of Scholarship, which stated that Jelsma "is...

  • Michael Klare , Contributor

    Michael Klare is a professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire University, a renowned analyst on oil politics and US defence policy and was TNI's first Phd graduate when TNI used to run an academic programme through a virtual US...

  • Michael Shuman , Senior Fellow

    Michael Shuman works on community-based solutions rooted in local markets, small business and devolution and is the author of the acclaimed Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age.

    Former Co-Director of the...

  • Myriam vander S... , Fellow

    Myriam Vander Stichele  has been monitoring international trade negotiations and agreements since 1990, both at a regional and global level. She is an advisor to many NGOs whose indepth research on investment agreements and policies, and private...

  • Nick Buxton , Staff

    Nick Buxton is TNI Online Communications and Media Officer. He has been based in California since September 2008 and prior to that lived in Bolivia for four years, working as writer/web editor at Fundación Solón,...

  • Olivier Hoedeman , Contributor

    Olivier Hoedeman (Dutch/Danish, MA Political Science), is the research and campaign co-ordinator at Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), an Brussels-based civil society group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment...

  • Oscar Reyes , Staff

    Oscar
    Reyes (London, 1977) works on TNI´s Environmental Justice project, is environment editor of Red Pepper magazine, and is co-author of Carbon Trading: how...

  • Patrick Bond , Contributor

    Patrich Bond is political economist and activist who directs the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. He is the co-editor (with Rehana Dada) of Trouble in the air: Global warming and the privatised...

  • Pauline Tiffen , Associated Fellow

    Formerly Director of both the Third World Information Network (TWIN) and Twin Trading, Pauline Tiffen is an independent consultant based in Washington focused on helping small-scale producers in Africa and Latin America profit from the international...

  • Peter Weiss , Contributor

    Peter Weiss, a vice-president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, was present at the creation of The Transnational Institute, is an ex fellow, and is now a member of TNI's International Advisory...

  • Philipp Terhorst , Contributor

    Philipp Terhorst (PhD at the Water Engineering and Development Centre,
    WEDC) is an activist researcher and collaborates with the TNI Water
    Justice Project.

  • Phyllis Bennis , Fellow

    Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of both TNI and the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC where she directs IPS's New Internationalism Project. Phyllis specialises in U.S. foreign policy issues, particularly involving the Middle East and United...

  • Pien Metaal , Staff

    Pien Metaal

  • Pietje Vervest , Staff
  • Praful Bidwai , Fellow

    TNI Fellow and former senior editor of The Times of India, Praful is a freelance journalist and insightful columnist for several leading newspapers in South Asia writing regularly on all aspects of Indian politics, economy, society and its...

  • Ricardo Soberon , Contributor

    Ricardo Soberón Garrido, member of TNI's Drugs & Democracy team, is a Peruvian lawyer and analyst on drug trafficking and counter-narcotics policies in the Andean region.

  • Ricardo Vargas , Associated Fellow

    Ricardo Vargas Meza is a Colombian sociologist and author of several books, reports and articles on illicit cultivation of drug crops, alternative development and their relation with the internal conflict in Colombia.

    Ricardo was previously a...

  • Richard Falk , Contributor

    Richard Falk is a former IPS/TNI fellow, an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, writer, and appointee to two United Nations positions on the occupied Palestinian territories.

  • Roberto Elissalde , Contributor

    Roberto Elissalde is a Uruguayan journalist who served as editor of the Public Services Year book, assisted with the a TNI fellows’ seminar ("Selling US Wars") in Montevideo, a seminar on the Latin American left, and facilitated work for the...

  • Roger Burbach , Contributor

    Roger Burbach is Director of the Center for the Study of the Americas based in Berkeley, CA. He is long time TNI friend who specialises in Latin American politics.

  • Sarah Anderson , Contributor

    Sarah Anderson is a Fellow of the TNI's sister Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C and head of the Global Economy Programme.

  • Satoko Kishimoto , Staff
  • Saul Landau , Senior Fellow

    TNI Senior Fellow and former Director of TNI (1976), Landau is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist and author. Landau writes weekly on US politics and foreign policy and has produced more than forty films on social, political and historical issues,...

  • Susan George , Fellow

    Susan George is one of TNI's most renowned fellows for her long-term and ground-breaking analysis of global issues. Author of fourteen widely translated books, she describes her work in a cogent way that has come to define TNI: "The job of the...

  • Tamra Gilbertson , Contributor

    Tamra Gilbertson is one of the founders of Carbon Trade Watch, a project of the Transnational Institute (TNI), and co-author of Carbon Trading: How it works and why it fails. She has been active in the project since 2001 and was a founding...

  • Tariq Ali , Contributor

    Tariq Ali is a novelist, historian, political campaigner and one of New Left Review’s editors.

  • Tom Blickman , Staff

    Tom Blickman (1957) is an independant researcher and journalist, based in Amsterdam. Before coming to TNI he was active in the squatters and solidarity movements in Amsterdam. He worked for Bureau Jansen & Janssen, a research institute on...

  • Tom Kramer , Staff

    Tom Kramer (1968) is a political scientist and with over 15-years of working experience on Burma and its border regions, which he has visited regularly since 1993.  

    His work focuses on developing a better understanding of the drugs...

  • Tom Reifer , Associated Fellow

    Tom Reifer is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of San Diego and publishes widely on global peace and social justice issues. He has also been a long-time activist in the anti-nuclear movement as well as a rank and file trade...

  • V Suresh , Contributor

    Dr V. Suresh runs the Center for Law, Policy and Human Rights Studies, is advisor to the Supreme Court Commissioner on Food Security in Tamil Nadu, and an active collaborator on TNI's Water Justice project.

  • Walden Bello , Fellow

    Author of more than 14 books, Bello was awarded the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize) in 2003 for "... outstanding efforts in educating civil society about the effects of corporate globalisation, and how alternatives to...

  • William Gumede , Contributor

    William Gumede is a South African journalist, and gave TNI's Bhasker Vashee Memorial Lecture in 2007.

  • Zia Mian , Contributor

    Zia Mian is a research scientist with the programme on science and global security, based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is a columnist of Foreign Policy in Focus, and contributor to TNI's...

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