Professor W. Andy Knight is former Director of the Institute of International Relations (IIR) at The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Professor and former Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta in Canada. He serves as Advisory Board Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Welfare of Children and the South-South Cooperation Centre (SSCS). He was a Governor of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) from 2007 to 2012 and Principal Investigator for a major Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada grant to study Children affected by War. Professor Knight co-edited Global Governance journal from 2000 to 2005 and was Vice Chair of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS). Knight has written and edited several books, book chapters and journal articles on various aspects of multilateralism, global governance and peace, and United Nations reform. His recent books include: Female Suicide Bombings: A Gendered Approach, with Tanya Narozhna (University of Toronto Press, 2016); Remapping the Americas: Trends in Region-Making, with Julian Castro-Rea & Hamid Ghany (Ashgate 2014); The Routledge Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect (with Frazer Egerton) – Routledge 2012; Towards the Dignity of Difference?: Neither ‘end of History’ Nor ‘clash of Civilizations’ (with Mojtaba Mahdavi) – Ashgate 2012; and Global Politics (with Tom Keating) – Oxford University Press 2010. Professor Knight is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Dr Butler is a Consultant Economist and writer based in London. Over the past 30 years, she has worked on both OECD and developing country issues including financial markets and on several areas of public policy. Her career has spanned the Bank of England, investment banking in the City of London and her own, Economic Research Company. Her publications include country analysis as well as reports on unemployment, national budgets, productivity and structural adjustment. The objective of Dr Butler’s research has always been to seek out high levels of economic efficiency for growth and sustainability balanced with equity for the broadest range of society. Since 2009, she has focussed increasingly on issues of social justice for youth and in particular on raising awareness of empowerment, health, education and employment issues. She has worked with a number of NGOs and is currently an Expert Assessor and Team Leader in Economics for Pearson. Dr Butler continues to work on the creation of varied pathways for youth to transition from school to the economic ladder so that they can lead fulfilling and creative lives as adults. Dr Butler has dual British and Trinidad and Tobago nationality. Continúa en pág. 28
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