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. It was founded to promote research from many disciplines on key problems including poverty, justice, well-being, and economics. The Association holds annual conferences; maintains a website and mailing list; supports training activities; and provides a forum in which collaborative research can emerge. The HDCA also produces a peer-reviewed journal, the '' Journal of Human Development and Capabilities'': A Multi-Disciplinary Journal for People-Centered Development. The association is supported by the Canadian

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Presidents

The economist and nobel Laureate

Amartya Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, econom ...

was the founding president and remained President until 2006 when philosopher,

Martha Nussbaum Martha Craven Nussbaum (; born May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is jointly appointed in the law school and the philosoph ...

, took over. She was succeeded in 2008 by Frances Stewart, who specializes in development studies. Economist,

Kaushik Basu Kaushik Basu (born 9 January 1952) is an Indian economist who was Chief Economist of the World Bank from 2012 to 2016. He is the C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, and academic advisory ...

became president in 2010, and was replaced by another economist,

Tony Atkinson Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson (4 September 1944 – 1 January 2017) was a British economist, Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, and senior research fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. A student of James Meade, Atkinson vir ...

, in 2012. The next president was the philosopher, Henry S. Richardson, he became president in September 2014 and served until 2016. The current president, economist

Ravi Kanbur Sanjiv M. Ravi Kanbur (born 28 August 1954), is T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He worked for the World Bank for almost two decades and was the d ...

, took the position in September 2016 after completing one year as president elect. Kanbur serves until September 2018.

Fellows

List of HDCA Fellows as of December 2015. ;A *

Bina Agarwal Bina Agarwal is an Indian development economist and Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the Global Development Institute at The University of Manchester. She has written extensively on land, livelihoods and property rights; e ...

Sabina Alkire Sabina Alkire is the director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), an economic research centre within the Oxford Department of International Development at the University of Oxford, England, which was established in 2007 ...

* Paul Anand * P B Anand * Sudhir Anand *

Elizabeth S. Anderson Elizabeth Secor Anderson (born December 5, 1959) is an American philosopher. She is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan and specializes in ...

* Proochista Ariana *

Ken Arrow Kenneth Joseph Arrow (23 August 1921 – 21 February 2017) was an American economist, mathematician, writer, and political theorist. He was the joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with John Hicks in 1972. In economics ...

;B *

* Mario Biggeri *

François Bourguignon François Bourguignon (born May 22, 1945) is the former Chief Economist (2003–2007) of the World Bank. He has been the Director of the Paris School of Economics, and from 1985 to his retirement in 2013 a professor of economics at the École des H ...

* Andrea Brandolini *

Harry Brighouse Harry Brighouse is a British political philosopher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research interests include the relationship between education and liberalism. His work on this topic has been widely cited by broadsheet newspapers, ...

* Tania Burchardt ;C * Satya Chakravarty * Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti * David Clark * Joshua Cohen *

David Crocker David A. Crocker (born 4 October 1937), is Research Professor in the School of Public Policy, at the University of Maryland, he is also the founder and former president of the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA). His work has been c ...

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Séverine Deneulin Séverine Marie Paule Deneulin (born 15 January 1974) is a senior lecturer in International Development at the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, and a fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA); ...

Keith Dowding Keith Martin Dowding (born 6 May 1960) is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Political Philosophy, School of Politics and International Relations, Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra ...

Jean Drèze Jean Drèze (born 1959) is a Belgian-born Indian welfare economist, social scientist and activist. He has worked on several developmental issues facing India like social welfare and gender inequality. His co-authors include Nobel laureate in e ...

* Jay Drydyk * Jean Luc Dubois * Anantha Duraiappah ;F * James E. Foster *

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr Sakiko Fukuda-Parr (サキコ・フクダ・パー、福田咲子) (born 1950) is a development economist who has gained recognition for her work with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and for her writing in publications including ...

;G * Wulf Gaertner * Des Gasper * Ann Goldin ;H * John Hammock * David Hulme ;I * Solava Ibrahim * Javier Iguiñiz ;K *

* Stephan Klasen *

Jeni Klugman Jeni Klugman is a development economist. She is Managing Director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, Institute for Women, Peace and Security at Georgetown University and a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Kennedy ...

* Jaya Krishnakumar * Barbara Ky ;L * Ortrud Lessmann * Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva ;M * Henk Manschot * Guillermo Bornemann Martinez * Mark McGillivray * Allister McGregor ;N *

Adil Najam Adil Najam ( ur, ) is a Pakistani academic who serves as the inaugural dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, and previously served as vice-chancellor of the LUMS. Life In 2011, Najam returned to Pakistan to head ...

* Zina Nimeh * Farhad Noorbakhsh *

;O * Avner Offner * Ilse Oosterlaken * Siddiqur R. Osmani ;P *

Prasanta K. Pattanaik Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik (born 5 April 1943), is emeritus professor at the Department of Economics at the University of California. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. Along with Amartya Sen and Kenneth Arrow, Pattanaik is an advisory edi ...

Philip Pettit Philip Noel Pettit (born 1945) is an Irish philosopher and political theorist. He is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University and also Distinguished University Professor of Philos ...

* Antonella Picchio *

Thomas Pogge Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge (; born 13 August 1953) is a German philosopher and is the Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University. In addition to his Yale appointment, h ...

* Antoanneta Potsi *

Hilary Putnam Hilary Whitehall Putnam (; July 31, 1926 – March 13, 2016) was an American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist, and a major figure in analytic philosophy in the second half of the 20th century. He made significant contributions ...

;Q * Mozaffar Qizilbash ;R * Sanjay Reddy * Henry S. Richardson *

Ingrid Robeyns Ingrid A.M. Robeyns (born 1972) holds the Chair Ethics of Institutions at Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities and the associated Ethics Institute. Robeyns is also a Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) and w ...

* José Manuel Roche ;S * Michael J Sandel * Erik Schokkaert *

* Randy Spence * Frances Stewart * Subbu Subramanian *

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Kotaro Suzumura was a Japanese economist and professor emeritus of Hitotsubashi University and Waseda University. He graduated from Hitotsubashi University in 1966. His research interests were in social choice theory and welfare economics. He was also a Fellow ...

;T * Lorella Terzi *

Erik Thorbecke Erik Thorbecke (born February 17, 1929) is a development economist. He is a co-originator of the widely used Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measure and played a significant role in the development and popularization of Social Accounting Matrix ...

* Graciela Tonon * John Toye ;U * Elaine Unterhalter ;V *

Martin van Hees Martin Vinzenz Baldur Paul Maria (Martin) van Hees (born 26 July 1964 in Beilen) is a Dutch philosopher. Van Hees was professor of ethics at the University of Groningen and since April 2013 professor of political theory at the University of Ams ...

* Sridhar Venkatapuram * Andrea Vigorito * Polly Vizard ;W * Melanie Walker * Gareth Wall * Maria Monica Wihardja * Jonathan Wolff ;Z *

Stefano Zamagni Stefano Zamagni (born 4 January 1943) is an Italian economist. Born in Rimini, Zamagni is Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna. Zamagni is also a fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association and President of the Pont ...

References

External links

HDCA WebsiteInternational Development Research Centre (IDRC)
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Presidents

Fellows

See also

References

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