Edmund Beard
Director
edmund.beard@umb.edu

Edmund Beard, Director of the Center for Democracy and Development (CDD), is also former Dean of the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies (MGS), former Chair of the University's Department of Political Science, and former Director of the University's Master of Science in Public Affairs Graduate Program.
          From 1983-1991, and again from 1999 to 2003, Dr. Beard was Director of the McCormack Institute, a predecessor of the McCormack Graduate School. The McCormack Institute, and now the McCormack Graduate School, were named to honor the former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Under Dr. Beard's direction, the McCormack Institute developed the Master of Science in Public Affairs Graduate Program, established the New England Journal of Public Policy, published several numerous books, papers, and special reports, and received over six million dollars in federal endowment funds. From its inception in 2003 until the spring of 2006, Dr. Beard led the new McCormack Graduate School as Acting Dean.
          The author or co-author of three books and numerous articles on various aspects of politics and public policy, Dr. Beard holds the MIA in International Affairs and the Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. He served for many years on the Board of Directors of the Social Policy Research Group in Boston, and is a former Research Associate at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
          In 1988, the University of Massachusetts Boston presented Dr. Beard with its Distinguished Professional Public Service Award, the University's highest public service honor. A specialist in democratic political institutions and democratic political behavior, Dr. Beard has been principal investigator of projects in Russia, China, Eastern Europe, and East and West Africa.

Honorable R. Peter Anderson, ret.
Visiting Fellow

 Judge Anderson has as participated in rule of law programs in China, Mongolia, and the Slovak Republic. He served as co-leader of the McCormack Graduate School and Massachusetts Judges Conference 2003 and 2005 Mock Trial Programs in China. He has traveled independently to China several times and was key in developing the 2006 Beijing-to-Boston Program, which brought six Chinese judges to Boston for a three-month judicial internship program. He has consulted in China at the request of the Yale Law School China Law Project. He retired from the Bench in fall of 2007.

Michael Keating
Associate Director
michael.keating@umb.edu

Michael Keating is the Associate Director and Senior Fellow at CDD. He is an expert in the area of media and business development with over twenty years experience as a management consultant and corporate executive. Michael was formerly a Vice-President and Partner with the Boston Consulting Group and was also a Vice-President and international project manager with the German media firm Bertelsmann. In 2005 Michael worked in Macedonia on the development of a national digital media strategy. He has also completed economic development projects in the Czech Republic, Russia, and Romania.
           In 2006, Michael's focus has also been on Africa, primarily on developments in Liberia. His research and consulting interests are on the question of how to create sustainable media businesses in developing and post-conflict societies and how the media segment can best serve positive social outcomes in conflict prone societies. He has conducted country risk studies in Nigeria and Zambia as part of his consulting activities and has also conducted specific sector studies in areas like cocoa production, mining and telecom.
           Michael has a B.A. in Philosophy from Fordham University and pursued Graduate studies in Comparative Area studies at the University of Washington where he also studied oriental languages. He has completed certificate programs on Corporate Finance topics at the Harvard Business School and the Amsterdam Institute of Finance. He was an Adjunct Faculty in the Management Information Systems Dept. at New York University in 1986.
           He has published several articles on 'new media' and the internet, and as a Visiting Scholar at M.I.T. in 2002-2003 he researched and presented on the topic of the internet and political violence. In 2007 he was ask to participate in the annual “Business in Africa” conference held at the Harvard Business School.

Michael MacPhee
Research Associate
michael.macphee@umb.edu

Michael MacPhee is the Special Projects Coordinator and Alumni Officer for the Dean’s Office of the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies. He has worked with the Center for Democracy and Development as a researcher for many grant proposals in Africa, Eurasia and Asia. He has participated three U.S. State Department funded rule of law programs, traveling with judicial delegations to Northwest China in 2005, Southwest China in 2006 and to Macedonia and Albania in 2005. He has coordinated the U.S. State Department funded U.S visits of governance, media and rule of law delegations from Russia, Macedonia, China and Liberia, serving as a liaison, guide, organizer and as a meeting, reception and conference planner.

In the Spring of 2007, working with Padraig O”Malley, the founding John Joseph Moakley Chair of Peace and Reconciliation, he planned a four part lecture series for students, alumni, and the general public. In the Fall of 2007, he was the conference coordinator for an international conference “Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Do They Do Justice to Justice?” at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Charles Ndungu
Program Officer
charles.ndungu@umb.edu

Charles Ndungu, CDD's Program Officer for Kenya, is currently a PhD student at UMASS Boston. Fluent in several African indigenous languages, Mr. Ndungu is a native of Kenya, with interests in democratic consolidation in Africa and the development of civil society. He holds a Masters degree from Penn State University and previously worked as a Research Assistant for the Forum of African Women Educationalists (FAWE) in Nairobi and as a Program Officer with CIVICUS African Program.

Padraig O’Malley
Senior Fellow
padraig.omalley@umb.edu

Irish born Padraig O'Malley is the John Joseph Moakley Professor of International Peace and Reconciliation at the McCormack Graduate School and Senior Fellow in CDD and editor of the New England Journal of Public Policy. Mr. O'Malley is an expert on democratic transitions and divided societies, with special expertise on Northern Ireland and South Africa. He is the author of four books on Ireland and Northern Ireland: Irish Industry: Structure and Performance (1972); The Uncivil Wars: Ireland Today (1983, 1990, 1997); Biting at the Grave: The Irish Hunger Strikes and the Politics of Despair (1990) and Northern Ireland: Questions of Nuance (1990). He was also a major contributor to A Citizen's Inquiry: The Opsahl Report on Northern Ireland (1993). His book Religion and Conflict: The Case of Northern Ireland was published by Beacon Press in 1995. Viking/Penguin will publish Shades of Difference: Transition in South Africa 1989-1999 in 2004. He has edited Uneven Paths: Advancing Democracy in Southern Africa (1994); Homelessness: New England and Beyond (1992); and The AIDS Epidemic: Private Rights and the Public Interest (1989).
          Mr. O'Malley has traveled widely for the National Democratic Institute , having monitored elections in South Africa, Mozambique, and the Philippines. He has assessed the political climate for fair elections in Namibia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Chile. Mr. O'Malley is also a frequent contributor to the Boston Globe .
Visit O'Malley's website "The Heart of Hope" at http://www.omalley.co.za.

Robert Weiner
Senior Fellow
robert.weiner@umb.edu

Robert Weiner is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and the Graduate Program Director of MSPA International Relations track. He is an Associate at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of Romanian Foreign Policy at the United Nations and Change in Eastern Europe as well as several book chapters and articles. He has presented over 50 papers at various scholarly conferences.

Ajume Wingo
Senior Fellow
ajume.wingo@umb.edu

Ajume H. Wingo is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Senior Fellow at the McCormack Graduate School's Center for Democracy and Development at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is also a Fellow at the Du Bois Institute, Harvard University.

A citizen of Cameroon, he was born in Nso in the North West Province. He attended Cameroon College of Arts, Science and Technology (CCAST) Bambili where he studied History, Economics and Geography. He also attended the University Yaounde, Cameroon where he studied law at the Faculty of Law and Economics. He obtained his BA from the University of California Berkeley and an MA (1995) and PhD (1997) from the University of Wisconsin Madison. He was a fellow at the Institute of Race and Social Division, Boston University and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Clark University and Emerson College.

He has published widely on liberal democratic philosophy and politics, particularly on institutional building in places where there are non-liberal democratic or illegitimate political institutions. He has also published on African Art and Aesthetics. His book Veil Politics in Liberal Democratic States is published by Cambridge University Press in the series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy. He is currently working on a book entitled The Citizen, in collaboration with Dr. Michael Kruse. The book is about how Africans can move beyond where their history has put them and begin to make their own future. It is about political freedom.

Erica White
Assistant Director
erica.white@umb.edu

Erica White is the Assistant Director of the McCormack Graduate School’s Center for Democracy and Development. Ms. White oversees the day-to-day activities of the Center and is the project manager for the Center’s rule of law programs. She has eight years of experience with international exchange programs, fundraising and has on-the-ground experience Albania, Macedonia, Mongolia and China. She was the UMass Boston program developer for the 2006 Beijing-to-Boston program, which brought six Chinese judges to Boston for a three month judicial internship program. She has also researched the politics of HIV/AIDS in South Africa and lectured at the John F. Kennedy Library on the subject. Ms. White is a Master's of Science Public Affairs International Relations candidate. She holds a B.A. in English and Political Science from the University of Massachusetts.

FRIENDS & ASSOCIATES

Richard F. Delaney

Richard F. Delaney has over 20 years experience in environmental management, policy, planning and sustainable development of coastal and water resources. He has participated in the development of coastal management programs in the states of Massachusetts, Texas and Florida; and sustainable development programs in Bulgaria, Republic of Georgia, Ukraine and Russia. He has provided technical and management assistance involving sustainable tourism, urban water quality, port management, institution strengthening, capacity building and citizen participation projects in numerous countries including, Benin, Cameroon, Chile, China, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Jamaica, Namibia and South Africa.
          He serves on the advisory boards of an extensive network of state, national and international organizations including, past national chairman of the Board of Directors of the Coastal States Organization (CSO), representing the Governors of 35 coastal States before Congress. He served on President Clinton's Economics and International Trade Transition Team focusing on the programs and policies within the Department of Commerce. He was a member of Governor Weld's Seaport Economic Development Commission and a member of the National Park Service Advisory Council for Cape Cod National Seashore.
          He received his BA in Political Science from Harvard University in 1970, did graduate work in environmental planning at SUNY College of Environmental Sciences at Syracuse, N.Y., and completed a Senior Management Program at the JFK School of Government at Harvard in 1983.

Papa Meissa Dieng
Professor
Universite Gaston Berger
Saint Louis, Senegal

Papa Meissa Dieng is Professor of International Law at Universite Gaston Berger in Saint Louis, Senegal, where he is Senegal Director of all McCormack/Gaston Berger projects, including the innovative Saint Louis Region Multi-Function Community Resource Center. A specialist in environmental law, Professor Dieng is deeply involved in local development policy and ecological policy.

Darren Kew
Dispute Resolution
Assistant Professor

Darren Kew studies the relationship between transformative conflict resolution methods and democratic development, particularly in terms of democratic institution building in Africa and the growth of political cultures that support democracy. Much of his work focuses on the role of civil society groups in this development. Professor Kew has worked with the Council on Foreign Relations' Center for Preventive Action to provide analysis and blueprints for preventing conflicts in numerous areas around the world, including Nigeria, Central Africa, and Kosovo. He has also been a consultant to the United Nations, USAID, the US State Department, and to a number of NGOs, including the Carter Center in a 1999 effort by former President Carter to mediate the Niger Delta conflicts. Professor Kew is recognized by policymakers in Washington and academics here and in Nigeria as one of the few up-and-coming American scholars with deep, firsthand knowledge of Nigerian politics and society. His work on how conflict resolution methods promote democratization of national political cultures is one of the first of its kind linking these important fields.

David Matz
Dispute Resolution
Director

David E. Matz is the founder and Director of the Graduate Programs in Dispute Resolution at UMass Boston. He is also an active dispute intervenor. Professor Matz has focused his work on the techniques of mediation and negotiation, and on the relationship of these to the workings of organizations and courts. He has done this primarily in the United States and Israel. In the United States, he has led in the development and use of assessment tools for court mediators, trained mediators, judges, and engineers. In Israel, he was central in developing policy and practice for the Israeli Ministry of Justice and Supreme Court in integrating mediation into the judicial system. He has also applied these approaches to the peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians and he has worked extensively with Arab and Jewish groups, here and abroad.