Institute for Policy Studies Senior Scholars

In late 1999, IPS began assembling a network of well-known progressive scholars and theoreticians to enlarge and enrich the Institute's work. Through the crystallization of existing relationships and the cultivation of new ones, the Senior Scholars program expands the Institute's reach in both gathering and disseminating new ideas.

Senior Scholars participate through periodic gatherings, collaboration with existing IPS projects, and a worldwide electronic network, and have access to office space at IPS when in Washington.

IPS Senior Scholars 2002

Bob Alvarez is a former Department of Energy senior official and directs IPS's Nuclear Policy project

Maude Barlow is national chair of the Council of Canadians and author of 10 books on globalization, most recently: Blue Gold.

Norman Birnbaum is a professor at Georgetown University and one of the foremost authorities on the left in Europe.

Noam Chomsky is a professor of linguistics at MIT and one of the world's leading political analysts.

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of over a dozen books on culture, politics, sciences, and economics, including the recent bestseller: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.

Richard Falk is a leading expert on international law and a professor at Princeton University.

Xabier Gorostiaga was a founder of Policy Alternatives for Central America and the Caribbean and is currently Executive Secretary of the Jesuit universities of Latin America.

Andrew Levine Formerly at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he is currently Research Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Maryland- College Park.. He is the author of nine books including The American Ideology: A Critique, and he has published articles in The Journal of Political Philosophy, Economics and Philosophy, Socialism and Democracy, Ethics, New Left Review, and Economics and Society.

Gay McDougall is Executive Director of the International Human Rights Law Group.

Jack O'Dell was a civil rights leaders and was Director of international issues for the Rainbow Coalition.

Vandana Shiva is author of over a dozen books on science and globalization
and directs the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in
Delhi, India.

Gore Vidal is a best-selling author and social critic.