Diversity summary

Management of Diversity

London School of Economics, 24th January 2002

List of Participants

Dr. Tajudeen Abdul Raheem
Dr. Tajudeen AbdulRaheem is the General Secretary of the Pan-African Movement based in Kampala, Uganda.

Ade Adefuye
Ade Adefuye is a Special Adviser (Political Affairs) with responsibility for the African Region at the Commonwealth Secretariat. He was a Professor in the Department of History, University of Lagos, Nigeria, before his appointment as Nigerian Ambassador to Jamaica with concurrent accreditation to Belize and Haiti (1987-1991). He was appointed Deputy High Commissioner to the Court of St. James in 1991 and served till 1991. He returned to his position at the University of Lagos in December 1993 until October 1994 when he joined the Commonwealth Secretariat at Deputy Director in the Strategic Planning and Evaluation Unit. He was appointed to his current position in October 2001. In recent times, he has been involved in Commonwealth conflict prevention and resolution efforts in The Solomon Islands, Lesotho, The Gambia, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and Swaziland.

Dr. S. Prince Akpabio, OBE, MDS (Lond.), LDS RCS (ENG), F.I.C.D.
Former Member, WHO Expert Panel, Oral Health (WHO, Geneva);
Former Part-Time Clinical Lecturer, University College London Dental School, University of London;Senior Consultant, African Consultancy Services, Geneva & Lagos;Honorary Diplomate, Faculty of Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of England;Founder President, Commonwealth Dental Association;Honorary Visiting Professor, Facult of Dentistry, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand;Fellow, International College of Dentists (FICD);Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine, London.

Graham Barr
Graham Barr is President of the Government and Public Affairs Global Business Centre at BP Plc.He joined BP Southern Africa 26 years ago as Public Affairs Manager. Then joined the Board of the company as General Manager Government and Public Affairs, Human Resources, Advertising and Security in 1982. Mr Barr became Executive Director of the company, deputy to the Chairman/CEO and Head of BP Oil Africa, in 1991. A Director of a number of BP and outside companies in Africa. Moved to London in 1996 to the post of Policy Director, Middle East, Africa, Greater Caspian, India, Turkey in External Affairs and Communications. Since January 1999 has global responsibilities, with particular focus on non-OECD countries.

Prior to joining BP, he was a financial and political journalist working for a number of South African newspapers and for the Daily Mirror in London and in Belfast. Left journalism in 1974 from the post of Deputy Editor of the Eastern Province Herald, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, to become Managing Director of Group Editors, then South Africa's largest communications company.

Educated at Grey College, Bloemfontein, South Africa, the University of Cape Town (BA), at Harvard Business School and at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Awarded the MBE in 1996 for service to the community.

Richard Bourne
Head of the Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit, Institute of Commonwealth Studies and, in a voluntary capacity, Chair of the Trustee Committee of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative ( CHRI ). I was a journalist from 1962 to 1982 ( posts included ten years on The Guardian and the Deputy Editorship of the London Evening Standard ) and was Deputy Director of the Commonwealth Institute from 1983 to 1989. I was founder Director of the CHRI and, in the 1990s held various appointments relevant to the Commonwealth ( eg Special Adviser to the Commonwealth Secretariat, 1991-2, Director of the Commonwealth Non Governmental Office for South Africa and Mozambique, 1995-7 ) before establishing the Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit in 1998.

Dr. Markus Goldstein
Dr Markus Goldstein is a lecturer at the Development Studies Institute at the London School of Economics. He has worked among other places, at Yale, the University of Ghana and the Canadian Mission to the United Nations.

Dale Gunthorp
Dale Gunthorp is a novelist.

Dr. Aderemi Ishola Ajibewa
Dr. Aderemi Ishola Ajibewa is Training & Research Programmes Co-ordinator at the Centre for Democracy & Development (CDD), a Non-Governmental Organisation with offices in the UK and West Africa. Before joining the CDD, Dr. Ajibewa worked in the US as a Lead Researcher at the Minnesota Association of Community Organization for Reform Now (MN ACORN). He taught also at the University Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia and Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. He holds a PhD in Politics & International Relations from the Lancaster University. His research and publications focus on Africa and Southeast Asia conflicts, multilateral peacekeeping and regional security issues.

Mark Lattimer
Mark Lattimer is the Director of Minority Rights Group International, an NGO which works to protect minority and indigenous rights across the world and to promote cooperation between communities.
Formerly he was the Communications Director at Amnesty International UK. He is the author of a number of books and is currently co-editing a book for Oxford University Press on international justice for crimes against humanity.

Dr Neville Linton
Dr Neville Linton, a Consultant in Politcal Affairs, specialises in Democratisation and Human Rights issues in transition societies. Previously he was a political scientist at the University of the West Indies before serving as a senior official at the Commonwealth Secretariat. Currently he is a Senior Adviser with Transparency International and works on corruption issues in Africa and the Caribbean. He is a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago.

Dr Peter Lyon
Dr. Peter Lyon is Reader Emeritus in International Relations and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. He is Editor of The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs.

Mary Mackie
'Ex-Commonwealth Secretariat - held various positions, including that of Personnel Officer. Was one of Chief Anyaoku's senior aides during his ten years as Commonwealth Secretary-General. Is Governor of International Students House; on the Appeal Committee for the Emeka Anyaoku Chair at London University's Institute of Commonwealth Studies; and presently involved, through the Commonwealth Institute, with one of the Jubilee celebration education projects.'

John McCarthy
After studying for an MPhil in History at Oxford University - specialising in decolonisation and Commonwealth affairs - John spent four years in the Civil Service. He subsequently worked as a foreign correspondent for the 'Economist' newspaper, reporting on political and economic developments in former-Soviet Central Asia, Afghanistan and western China. Since 2000, he has been engaged as a consultant for major international firms operating in those regions.

Ian McKendry
Ian McKendry is Deputy Chief Governance Adviser at DFID. His responsibilities include political aspects of governance issues. He has worked with DFID for around 8 years, but has spent most of his career in the private sector. His undergraduate degree was in engineering, and he has an American MBA. This included study on organisational theory and behaviour. He has a PhD from IDS in Development Finance and Economics. This included political aspects of the Development Banking practice.

Stuart Mole OBE
Director-General, Royal Commonwealth Society since May 2000. Educated at Nottingham, London and Oxford Universities. Commonwealth Secretariat (1984-2000), latterly as Director, Secretary-General's Office. Director and Editorial Board Member: "The Roundtable" (A Commonwealth Journal of International Relations)

Sally Morphet
Sally Morphet was educated in the Middle East, the United States and the United Kingdom. She worked as a full time Research Analyst in the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1966 - 2000. She specialised first on Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, and, from 1974, on general international and UN questions. She has published articles and chapters in books on UN civil administration, environment and NGOS, foreign policy, groups at the UN, human rights, peacekeeping, the non-aligned and the Security Council. She has covered almost all the major non-aligned meetings for the FCO since 1979.

She was elected a member of the Board of Directors of ACUNS (Academic Council on the United Nations System) for three years in June 1997. She retired from full time work at the FCO at the end of December 2000 and is now working on a freelance basis. She was appointed a Visiting Professor at the University of Kent at Canterbury in January 2001 and is also a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. She is currently writing an Adelphi paper on the UN and international peace and security

Hon. Mrs Sarah Morrison
Sara Morrison joined The General Electric Company p.l.c. (GEC) in 1975 and was a Director from 1980 until March 1998. She is a non-Executive Charter European Trust plc. and The New Millennium Experience Company Limited. She is also Chairman of WWF-UK. She was a non-executive Director of Carlton Television Limited, 1991-1999 and President of Worldaware 1994-2000.

Sara Morrison was a member of The National Radiological Protection Board from 1989 until 1997, a member of the UK Round Table for Sustainable Development, 1995-1998, and on the Council of the Family Policy Studies Centre 1983-1999. She is a member of the Video Appeals Committee (Video Recordings Act 1984). She is an Honorary Fellow of Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (a Governor since 1986; Deputy Chairman 1999). She was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Business Administration by Coventry University in 1994, and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from De Montfort University in July 1998. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts,

She has been Chairman of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (until 1981), and a member of the 1976 Annan Committee of Enquiry into Broadcasting. She was a founding Director of Channel Four Television Company Limited (retired 1985). A non-Executive Director Abbey National plc from 1979 until June, 1995 and The Imperial Group for its last 18 months before takeover.

Other roles through the years have included the National Consumer Council, the National Association of Youth Clubs and The Volunteer Centre. She was a Wiltshire County Councillor for some twelve years until 1971. She was Chairman of the National Council for the Employment of Disabled People, 1981 to 1984.

Ayobami Olubiyi
Ayobami Olubiyi is a security advisor at ExxonMobil with responsibility for Africa operations. Previously he was a Nigerian governmental official with the Presidency. He hold s a masters degree in international relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

Dr Abiodun Onadipe
Abiodun Onadipe, is Programme Manager at Conciliation Resources, an
NGO providing practical professional support for community-based and
national organisations seeking to develop effective, non-violent
responses to conflict or potential conflict. Dr Onadipe, a specialist
in conflict resolution and analysis, has researched and written
extensively in democracy, governance and conflict in Africa.

Bishnodan Persaud
Prof Bishnodat Persaud, a recent Professor of the University of the West Indies(1992-1997) was the Founding Director of the University's Centre for Environment and Development (UWICED). When Prof Persaud left UWICED, he was made an Honorary Professor of the University. He was formerly Director and Head of the Economic Affairs Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat(19981-1992) and the Technical Co-ordinator of International Economic Negotiations(1997) for the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery(CRNM) He is at present a Senior Associate of the CRNM.
Professor Persaud holds a number of non-executive Directorships. He was from 1994-2000 a member of the UN Secretary-General's Committee for Development Policy. He served as a member of several Expert Groups, Commissions of Enquiry and Consultancy missions for Governments and International Institutions (IDB, World Bank, CIDA, UNDP, UN, Commonwealth Secretariat, UNEP) and was team leader for a number of these missions. He has many publications and is joint editor of two books.
Professor Persaud holds a Ph.D from the University of Reading, U.K. He was born in Guyana and is a citizen of Barbados and Guyana.

Jeremy Pope
Jeremy Pope (New Zealand/Irish) is the Executive Director of Transparency International (TI) with responsibility for research and innovation. Earlier he served as the Founding Managing Director. He has had primary responsibility for developing the movement's professional approaches and anti-corruption "tools" and for developing its field work, including the use of national integrity workshops (a mechanism since adopted by a number of other organisations, including the World Bank) and National Integrity system Surveys. He wrote the TI Source Book on National Integrity Systems (published in over 20 languages) and most recently authored Confronting Corruption: The Elements of a National Integrity System (TI Source Book 2000). He has had extensive experience in advising governments and civil society groups on anti-corruption strategies (both at the national and the local level), legislation and approaches, particularly in Africa and in Eastern and Central Europe. He is leading the development of a Business Integrity Standard for the Private Sector, facilitating a process that includes all stakeholders. He has also served as adviser the President of the World Bank, to the Independent Commission on Global Governance, and to the UN Global Programme Against Corruption, Vienna,

From 1980 - 1993 he served as Director, Legal and Constitutional Affairs Division, Commonwealth Secretariat, London where his Division had most Commonwealth governments as its "clients", and advised on constitutional and law reform issues, provided technical assistance and developed information systems for the sharing of legal experience. It serviced regular meeting of Ministers of Justice and Attorneys general, Chief Justices, Law Reform Commission Chairs, Correctional Administrators and the Central Authorities for mutual legal assistance requests. It also serviced the needs of an international organisation with experts in the field across the Commonwealth. His work included establishing the Commonwealth Law Bulletin; facilitating the development of the Commonwealth Statement on the Judicial Review of Administrative Action (1993); developing the Harare Scheme (the Commonwealth Scheme for Mutual Legal Assistance as between Commonwealth jurisdictions) (1986); developing methodologies for the observing of elections in independent countries (the Commonwealth was the first to begin to undertake these); and developing the "Bangalore Principles" for the domestic application of international human rights norms (1989) (an approach which has since been widely adopted by superior courts in both the "old" and the "new" Commonwealth).

Dr Babu Rahman
Dr Babu M Rahman is Head of Global Issues Research Group in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Research Analysts. He works, amongst other things, on areas of policy within the United Nations and the Commonwealth, including human rights, conflict and peace management and the environment. He has represented the United Kingdom within the UN human rights system a number of times, and was a UK delegate to the UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban in 2001.

Vinod Rege
Vinod Rege, former Director WTO, is an expert in trade policy and in trade
and environment law. He has written extensively on trade problems of developing countries and on issues of interest and concern to these countries in the discussions and negotiations in WTO. One of his recent publications includes, Business Guide to the World Trading System published jointly by the Commonwealth Secretariat and the International Trade Centre(UNCTAD/WTO).

He provides at present on behalf of the Commonwealth Secretariat assistance
to the delegations from the developing countries for their improved participation in the discussions and negotiations that take place in WTO.

Rachael Reynolds
Rachael Reynolds is a Deputy Director in the Asylum and Appeals and Policy
Directorate at the Home Office and is Head of the Refugee Integration Unit.
She is responsible for taking forward the implementation of the Government's
refugee integration strategy "Full and Equal Citizens" through the work of
the National Refugee Integration Forum.

Prunella Scarlett

Mrs Prunella Scarlett is Adviser on Public Affairs, Commonwealth Business Council, and formerly, Director of Commonwealth Affairs for the Royal Commonwealth Society. She is Chair of the Leprosy Relief Association (LEPRA) and Honorary Consul, Samoa.

Patrick Smith
Patrick Smith is Editor of Africa Confidential, a fortnightly news
Letter covering economic and political developments in Africa, published by Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK.

Viscount Waverley
Viscount Waverley sits in the House of Lords as a crossbench peer. He was a Landscape contractor (Europe/Middle East) 1975-85; a Publishers' agent (Latin America/Africa) 1985-93; and has worked at Emerging Markets Support, 1993-present.