2007 CIP and USA Fellowship Outcomes & Program Summaries
Dr. Olanike ADEYEMO |
Lecturer and Aquatic Pathobiologist … will collaborate with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) on a project on wildlife trafficking and consumption in Nigeria. This will involve researchers from UIUC going to Nigeria throughout the study period. In addition, as a result of her meetings with the EPA, Dr. Adeyemo received an offer of technical support to develop a standard waste treatment plant in Nigeria. She is currently preparing a list of needs which will be reviewed with her EPA contacts. |
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| Dr. Amr ATTIA EGYPT |
Associate Professor of Urban Planning …has established an academic exchange between his university and Clemson University’s department of landscape architecture and urban planning; Clemson faculty will visit him in February 2008, and he will speak at a conference there in May 2008. Dr. Attia anticipates engaging design experts from Skidmore Owings Merrill in a joint venture to build a tower in Qatar; working with David Denton Architects on the master plan for a new Najaf City; attending the Capitals Alliance conference in September 2008; and speaking at the University of Pennsylvania about the growing issue of unauthorized squatting on public land (‘Informal Cities’) that is happening in Cairo and other cities. |
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| Ramiro BARRIOS MEXICO |
Project Director … is working on a cooperative relationship between his center and the California Environmental Protection Agency on air pollution issues. |
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| Andrea CABRAL Massachusetts |
Sheriff Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department … will advocate for the creation of programs similar to ones she visited in Australia, including the Youth Drug and Alcohol Court, Conference Sentencing for Young Adults, and the Magistrates Early Referral into Treatment Program. Each reflects an emphasis on early intervention and prevention rather than post-incarceration remediation. |
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| Sonia Maria DIAS BRAZIL |
Consultant, Solid Waste Management …as a result of her presentation at the World Bank on “An assessment of social inclusion in solid waste management in Brazil – achievements and challenges,” Ms. Dias is currently negotiating with the World Bank to work as an advisor on a project being conducted in Brazil called Integrated Solid Waste Management and Carbon Finance Program. The project will be in partnership with Caixa Econômica Federal (the second largest Brazilian state bank), and Ms. Dias would have responsibility for advising Bank representatives on the strategies for social inclusion already being pursued in Brazil and on existing legislation geared toward waste pickers, as well as to review the Bank’s documents produced on the subject. |
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| Daniel DOUGLAS North Carolina |
Director … created a strategy to retool a historically significant building group into a cultural/arts center inspired by those he visited in Berlin, Munich, and Madrid. He championed an effort to hold a European-style architectural design competition for a new $100 million municipal Public Safety Center. The Raleigh Urban Design Center prepared and hosted a program for a delegation of Georgian planners and architects visiting through the State Department’s International Affairs Council. |
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| Dr. Tarek EL-SHEIKH EGYPT |
Housing Policy Advisor … has organized a meeting at UN HABITAT headquarters in Nairobi for a delegation from Microsoft to explore mechanisms for supporting slum upgrading through technology interventions. In addition, Dr. El-Sheikh will disseminate his fellowship findings via presentation at a regional conference, and will explore establishing a partnership for policy development, housing supply and research in countries of the Middle East with research institutions he met in the U.S. |
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| Martín FERNÁNDEZ-PRADO SPAIN |
Professor of Urban Design and Planning … will write a book that reviews the principal U.S. maritime and fluvial fronts and concludes with learnings from his fellowship relevant to the waterfront in A Coruña. He will also introduce practices he observed to public officials in his province, including water-taxis, waterfront regeneration (such as Baltimore’s Inner Harbor), and the use of charrettes to promote citizen participation in new urban projects. |
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| Alicia GUAJARDO MEXICO |
CEO … has cemented a business relationship with FERROMEX, the largest Mexican railroad as an outcome of her fellowship program. In addition, she is benefiting from relationships formed with key California organizations to advise and contract for joint projects under development in Guadalajara, Zacatecas and Nuevo Leon. Insights gained through visits to exemplary waterfront areas have informed a project in Monterrey, where her firm is developing 1,000 new homes; sustainable elements include systems of parks, medium density, mixed land use, water management techniques, etc. |
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| Mohamed Iqbal HABIB BANGLADESH |
Architect … is working with Waterkeeper Alliance to establish an affiliate program in Bangladesh, and is hoping to bring to Bangladesh a requirement for all architects to contribute 1% of their time to unpaid architectural work, a practice he saw while visiting San Francisco. |
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| Liliana HERMONT BRAZIL |
Advisor, Office of Project Development and Implementation …will work on public/private partnerships for public transit, and will advocate for a pedestrian and bicycle master plan for Belo Horizonte. |
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| Donald HOBART North Carolina |
Director of Governmental and Legal Affairs … will examine the prospect of applying a model used by Thailand’s Asian Centre for Population and Community Development (PDA) to North Carolina. PDA made arrangements enabling local and multinational corporations to disaggregate manufacturing processes, and to shift some operations from cities to rural areas. |
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| Loree JONES Pennsylvania |
Managing Director … plans to return with colleagues from Philadelphia city government to South Africa on a collaborative housing tour to exchange ideas about streamlining housing bureaucracy, building housing units, and developing public-private partnerships. |
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| Obakeng MOOKELETSI SOUTH AFRICA |
Deputy Director General … will partner with the Mayo Clinic on new clinical research programs, modeled from another South African province. |
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| Dr. Suahasil NAZARA INDONESIA |
Director, Demographic Institute …is hoping to establish a collaborative engagement with the UN Population Division, and to establish working relationships with University of Michigan Professors Robert Marans on his “quality of life in world cities” research, and with Gavin Shatkin, an urban planning professor. |
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| Lorelei Anastacio NG PHILIPPINES |
Architect … will promote adoption of a model such as Harvard’s Green Campus Initiative at the University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila, as well as establishment of a member organization of the International Green Building Council to develop a green standard rating system, and partner with the Department of Science and Technology in the Philippines to research and develop environmentally-friendly building materials. |
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| Dithabe Oupa NKOANE SOUTH AFRICA |
Executive Manager, National Urban Renewal Program … will, at the invitation of the City of Tshwane, make a presentation during the KwaZulu-Natal South African Local Government Association strategic planning conference on the lessons learned during his fellowship in the U.S. (especially on the concept of culture and arts-led urban regeneration and re-branding of cities as ‘cultural destinations’); this represents an excellent opportunity to give input directly at the strategic level of local government. He is also involved in organizing a conference of EF Fellows that will take place in Durban in February 2008. |
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| Jenni OWEN North Carolina |
Director of Policy Initiatives … connected several U.S. and South African organizations, including the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University, where she is based. The head of a large Johannesburg NGO visited Duke in October 2007. Ms. Owen also connected leaders of the South African Local Government Association with the UNC School of Government to provide technical assistance to local governments. |
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| Dr. Methee PAYOMYONG THAILAND |
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Vineela PILLAY SOUTH AFRICA |
Senior Policy Advisor … is hoping to bring back to South Africa the vision of an enhanced role of the community and NGOs in influencing politics, the community college concept she saw in Jackson, Mississippi, and a closer link between universities and industry that she saw in Research Triangle Park. |
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| Maitreyi ROY Pennsylvania |
Director … is creating a citywide open space plan for Philadelphia based on plans and land use maps that she saw guide the open space management of European cities and lead to implementation strategies. She also plans to advocate for this model to be considered at a neighborhood scale. |
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| Sanjeev SANYAL INDIA |
Chief Economist … will create an advisory panel of education leaders in the U.S. to help create reform-minded policies for tertiary education throughout India. This would include accreditation standards and teaching and training programs as conceived in partnership with MIT, the College of DuPage, Stanford University, Drexel University and other leading educational institutions. |
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| Arbind SINGH INDIA |
Coordinator … has introduced a model developed by the Harlem Children’s Zone and is expanding services to mainstream children into their program in three wards in Patna. The America India Foundation has committed funding to this newly initiated program. |
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| WANG Haichen CHINA |
Vice Chief Executive … members of the Wayne County (Michigan) government traveled to Shunyi District in October 2007 after meeting with Mr. Wang in Michigan. Additionally, an American Planning Association senior advisor will travel to Beijing to discuss industrial planning in December 2007. |
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