Sophal Ear speaks At 小黄猫传媒
Scholar on international aid comes to 小黄猫传媒
On Wednesday, April 24, from 2-3pm, Professor Sophal Ear will speak at Sylvania Campus on how international aid threatens development and democracy.
Sophal Ear is an Assistant Professor of聽聽at the聽聽in Monterey,聽California.聽His research interests include post-conflict reconstruction, stability, transition, democratization, Southeast Asia, the political economy of governance, foreign aid, development, and growth, in particular, for聽Cambodia. His new book Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy questions one of the basic assumptions of current international practice: how international aid affects developing counties.
Ear earned his Ph.D. in Political Science聽at UC Berkeley. He has three master鈥檚 degrees: a Master of Science in聽Agricultural and Resource Economics, a Master of Arts in Political Science (both from UC Berkeley) and a Master in Public Affairs from the聽Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs听补迟听Princeton University. His undergraduate degree, also from UC Berkeley, was in Economics and Political Science.
In 2008, he won the International Public Management Network鈥檚 June聽Pallot聽Award for the best article in the聽International Public Management Journal聽published in 2007. A year later, he became a聽听补迟听聽in聽Long Beach, where he delivered a ; in 2010, he聽聽at the聽聽and served as a聽Fulbright Specialist聽at the聽Institute of Security and International Studies, Faculty of Political Science,聽, Bangkok, Thailand; and in 2011, he gave a聽keynote聽at the聽鈥檚 25th Annual IB Asia Pacific Conference in Melbourne, was honored as a聽聽by the聽, and was elected to a five-year聽聽on the聽.
Currently he serves on the Advisory Board of the聽Master of Development Studies Program at the聽, the Editorial Board of the聽International Public Management Journal, the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education & Advancement, and am Vice-Chair of聽, a non-profit organization that aims to build capacity for functional infectious diseases laboratory diagnosis by strengthening the infrastructure and technical capabilities of technicians and clinical microbiologists in the developing and developed world.