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Cludio R. Amitrano is research fellow at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP) as well as at the Center for Studies of Conjuncture and Economic Policy (CECON) at the University of Campinas. He has published several articles on the economic development of So Paulo.
Charlotte Boisteau is a Ph.D. candidate at the Urban Sociology Laboratory of the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. She is currently coordinator of a research-action project on urban violence and security policies in Johannesburg, Bogot, Marseille and Barcelona, in partnership with UN-HABITAT (Safer Cities Programme).
Patrick Bond is director of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa. Until August 2004 he was professor at the Graduate School of Public and Development Management, Witwatersrand Graduate School, Johannesburg. He is the author of Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa (2004), Unsustainable South Africa: Environment; Development, and Social Protest (2002) and Cities of Gold, Townships of Coal: South Africas New Urban Crisis (2000).
Nancy Cardia, Ph.D. in social psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, is research coordinator at the Ncleo de Estudos da Violncia, University of So Paulo (NEV-USP). She has widely published on issues of security and violence, including books on the role of moral exclusion in human rights violations, violence in urban areas, and violence in schools.
Jean Carmalt is currently legal coordinator at the Center for Economic and Social Rights in New York. She has a B.A. in geography from Vassar College, where she focused on development issues in China. She also has a J.D. from Cornell University Law School. Her special interests include criminal law and international human rights law.
Xiaoyuan Chen is associate professor at the Department of Public Administration, and deputy dean of the School of International Relations and Public Affairs at Fudan University in Shanghai. His research focus is on administrative reforms in China. His English publications include Market Economy and the Transformation of the Function of Chinese Local Governments (2002) and A System for the Municipal Administration on City Construction in Developed Countries: Chinese Setups (2002).
lvaro A. Comin is lecturer of sociology at the University of So Paulo and senior researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP), So Paulo. He has published widely on the economic restructuring process in So Paulo.
Renato Cymbalista is consultant and coordinator at the Institute Plis - Estudos, Formao e Assessoria em Polticas Sociais in So Paulo, where he currently is the manager of the Master Plan for Guarulhos in the So Paulo Metropolitan Region. His English publications include Communities and Local Government: A Case Study in So Paulo - Housing Construction in the Apuan Self-Managed Community Project (with Raquel Rolnik, in Huchzermayer et al. 2003)
Lalit Deshpande is a former professor for development economics and director of the Department of Economics, University of Bombay. Currently he is visiting professor at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi. His most recent publications include Liberalisation and Labour Flexibility in Indian Manufacturing , co-authored with A. Sharma, A. Karan and S. Sarkar (2004).
Sudha Deshpande retired as a reader in demography at the Department of Economics, Mumbai University. Currently she is senior visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi. Her publications include Amsterdam through the Gateway of India (1999) with L. Deshpande, and Labour Flexibility in a Third World Metropolis. A Case Study of Bombay (with G. Standing and L. Deshpande 1998).
Kedar R. Ghorpade is senior planner in the Planning Division of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) in Mumbai. He is responsible for the formulation of economic development strategies in the MMRDA and co-edited the Regional Plan for Mumbai Metropolitan Region 1996-2011 in 1996.
Jianfu Huang, Ph.D. in economics, is assistant research fellow at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. His research focus is on regional economic development in China. He is the author of Transaction Costs and Urban Development (2003).
Huang Li is associate professor at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development Studies and the Research Centre for Administrative Divisions of China at the East China Normal University in Shanghai. Her research focus is on urban and regional geography and economics. She is the author of Models of Metropolitan Governance (2003).
Ling Hin Li is associate professor at the Department of Real Estate and Construction, University of Hong Kong. His research focus is on Chinas urban land reform and socio-economic impacts of urban land policies. He has written extensively in this subject area, including: Urban Land Reform in China (1999); Economic Reform in the Urban Land System in China (in: Journal of Contemporary China , 12/34, 2003); the latest work is a co-edited book (with N. Aveline) on Property Markets and Land Policies in Northeast Asia (2004).
Mzwanele Mayekiso is senior lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. He has published several articles on the situation in the townships of South Africa. He is co-author of the book Confronting Fragmentation: Housing and Urban Development in a Democratic Society (2003).
