Dr. Roger Bate, Legatum Fellow at American Enterprise Institute
Economist Roger Bate researches performance and effectiveness of aid agencies and NGOs in Africa and the developing world. Among his areas of focus, Mr. Bate examines health policy and endemic diseases in developing countries (malaria, HIV/AIDS); international environmental and health agreements (industrial chemicals and water); and water policy in developing countries. He also writes for AEI's Environmental Policy Outlook and Health Policy Outlook series.
Mr. Bate is the Director of Africa Fighting Malaria and the founder of the Frederick Bastiat International Journalism Prize. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Cambridge as well as an MPhil. in Land Economy.
Joel Kotkin, Legatum Institute Adjunct Fellow
An internationally recognised authority on global, economic, political and social trends, Joel Kotkin is the author of The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 (to be published in February 2010). His previous books include The City (2006), The New Geography (2000); and Tribes (1993).
For over three decades, Mr. Kotkin has been one of the United States’ most prolific and widely published journalists. He currently writes the weekly “New Geographer” column for Forbes.com, having previously written for The New York Times' Sunday Business section. His work also appears in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Washington Post, The American and on Politico.com.
He is currently finishing a major international study on urban upward mobility for the Legatum Institute. The report, due out in early 2010, will focus on developments in London, Mumbai and Mexico City. Mr. Kotkin lectures widely in the United States, UK , Asia, Australia and Europe and is sought after as a speaker by major business and financial organisations.
Mr. Kotkin attended the University of California, Berkeley and has lived in California since 1971.
Jonathan Paris, Legatum Institute Adjunct Fellow
Jonathan Paris is a London-based political analyst and Adjunct Fellow at the Legatum Institute. He is also the Non-Resident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council of the United States’ South Asia Center and Associate Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King’s College London.
Before moving to London in 2001, he was a Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, where he worked primarily on the Middle East peace process and was deputy to Paul A. Volcker, Chairman of the Council’s Middle East Economic Strategy Group. Whilst at the Council, he co-edited the first book on Indonesia’s democratic transition, The Politics of Post-Suharto Indonesia (Brookings/CFR 1999). A Senior Associate Member at St. Antony’s College, Oxford from 2004-2005, he is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Law School.