Research, ideas, and leadership for a more secure, peaceful world
The World Commission on Dams: An Experiment in Global Governance for Sustainable Development
Sanjeev Khagram is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He recently returned from a two year assignment as Senior Advisor for Policy and Institutional Analysis at the World Commission on Dams, an independent, multi-stakeholder initiative in global public policy making. His current interdisciplinary work is on the political economy of, and rights/risks-based approaches to, equitable and sustainable development; innovations in/strategies for (democratic and democratizing) governance at the global, national and sub-national levels; and comparative research on Brazil, India, South Africa and the United States. His co-edited volume entitled "Restructuring World Politics: The Power of Transnational Social Movements, Networks and Norms" will be published by University of Minnesota Press in early 2002, and he is currently completing his book manuscript entitled, "Dams, Democracy and Development: Transnational Struggles for Power and Water". Of Asian Indian descent, he was born in and was a refugee of Idi Amin's Uganda, and grew up in New Jersey after coming to the United States. He holds a self-designed inter-disciplinary undergraduate degree in development studies/engineering, as well as advanced graduate degrees in economics and political science - all from Stanford University.
