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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES -- Fantu Cheru
Fantu Cheru
M.S., Ph.D., Portland State University
B.A., Colorado College
E-mail: fcheru@american.edu
Phone: (202) 885-1648
Professor Cheru teaches African and Development Studies
courses in the International Development Program. Originally from Ethiopia,
Cheru is a leading expert in African development, with field experience
in more than 20 African countries. He currently serves as a member of
the UN Secretrary-General's Panel on International Support for the New
Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) as well as Convenor of the
Global Economic Agenda Track of the Helsinki Process on Globalization
and Democracy. He has served both as an advisor and consultant to a number
of governments and donor institutions, including the UN Economic Commission
for Africa (UNECA), UNDP, UN-Habitat, Swedish International Development
Agency (SIDA), Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), Norwegian
Development Agency (NORAD), among others. Cheru also served as the UN's
Special Rapporteur on Foreign Debt and Structural Adjustment for the UN
Commission for Human Rights in Geneva from 1998-2001. Back to: Faculty Directory | Faculty Directory -- By Department | SIS Home
Among Professor Cheru's well known publications include, The African
Renaissance: Roadmaps to the Challenge of Globalization (2002); The
Silent Revolution in Africa: Debt, Development and Democracy (1989);
Ethiopia: Options for Rural Development (1990); Underdevelopment and
Unemployment in Kenya (1987); The Not So Brave New Worldd: Rethinking
Regional Integration in Post-Apartheid Southern Africa (1992). A
co-edited book on Mobilizing Resources for the Millennium Development