Policy Innovations The central address for a fairer globalization

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Didier Jacobs

Special Advisor to the President

Oxfam America
26 West Street
Boston, MA 02111
UNITED STATES
djacobs@oxfamamerica.org

Didier Jacobs is special advisor to the president at Oxfam America. He was previously a researcher in Oxfam America's Policy Department, specializing in global governance and international finance. Before joining Oxfam, Mr. Jacobs was a researcher at the London School of Economics and Catholic University of Louvain, as well as an aid worker for Médecins Sans Frontières in Liberia during the civil war. He earned a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a Master in Economics from the Catholic University of Louvain.

Focus: Finance, Governance, Poverty, United States, Americas, Global

Link: http://www.global-citizens.org/

Related Resources:

Ending War in Our Lifetimes? (Commentary)
A League of Democracies (Innovations)
Democratizing Global Economic Governance (Policy Library)
Global Finance Hurts the Poor (Policy Library)

Selected Publications:

Global Democracy: The Struggle for Political and Civil Rights in the 21st Century (Vanderbilt University Press), a book that outlines a new foreign policy doctrine to build a fairer globalization.

Language Fluency:

English

Last Updated: Feb 29, 2008