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Uma Lele is currently leading an independent programmatic evaluation of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), based in Chennai, India, 20 years since its establishment in 1988. It is MSSRF’s major retrospective and prospective evaluation of its programmatic activity, and her first of a major civil society organization based in the South. She also serves on the High Level Advisory Panel of the UNICEF’s Evaluation of its Global Programme Partnerships. She is a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Global Water Partnership. She serves on the Boards of the Institute of Development Studies and EngenderHealth. She was recently awarded an Outstanding Alumnus Award by Cornell University’s College of Agriculture. |
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Recognized international leader and thinker, analyst and manager of interdisciplinary professionals to address international policy issues of poverty, food, agriculture, health, environment, global public goods, and external assistance, seasoned in teaching and mentoring students, mobilizing human and financial resources on an international scale and in convening leaders of the public and private sectors, nongovernmental and international organizations to debate critical development issues, in achieving consensus to realize concrete results and in effecting policy changes.
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Like millions of others I've been angered and saddened by the terrorist attacks on Mumbai. While I've live in the U.S. for several decades, I spent much of my youth in Mumbai. Mumbai is not a place of terror but a place of close friendship and love among people of many cultures. Read more... |
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As G-8 leaders gather in Japan this week, one of the main points of discussion will be the extraordinary rise in the international prices of agricultural commodities. The rise in commodity prices has mirrored food price hikes throughout the developing world, including in China and India. Increased prices are impacting the lives of millions of poor, contributing to overall inflationary pressures and risking political unrest. Read more... |
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