International Advisory Committee

Professor Baburao Baviskar, recently retired from the Delhi School of Economics, has been elected President of the Indian Sociology Association. Baburao has written widely on Indian rural co-operatives, and has been a long-standing critic of the dairy scheme 'Operation Flood', supported by the EU and the World Bank among others.

Professor Howard Newby, who is Vice-Chancellor of Southampton University, has recently been appointed Chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals for UK Universities. Howard also Chairs the International Advisory Committee of the Arkleton Centre for Rural Development Research and received a Knighthood in this year's Honours.

Susan Sechler, who moved from the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies to the Pew Foundation is now Director of Global Programmes at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York.

Dr Elena Saraceno, for many years director of CRES, Italy, is now a senior official with the Cellule de Perspective - the EU President's 'think tank' in Brussels.

Peter Baumann has moved from his position of Director of the Agricultural Payments Agency in Copenhagen to the Danish Embassy in Paris.