Many colleagues shared important comments on earlier drafts of this report. Members of the UN Millennium Project's United Nations Experts Group have provided invaluable advice since the Project's inception, always under the skilled chairmanship of Jan Vandemoortele. We thank all Experts Group members for their generous and consistent contributions: Ifzal Ali, Adnan Z. Amin, Patrick Asea, Daniel Biau, François Bourguignon, James P. Callahan, Andrew Cassels, Jan Cedergren, Hans D'Orville, David T. Edwards, Marika Fahlen, Orobola Fasehun, Luiz L. Fernandes Pinheiro, Charles Gore, Edward Heinemann, Raj Jumar, Ian Kinniburgh, Eddy Lee, Patrick Low, Richard Morgan, Harish Parvathaneni, Prabhu Pingali, Raghuram Rajan, Joanne Sandler, Francisco Sercovich, Mari Simonen, Joseph Smolik, Dianne Spearman, Carlos Eduardo Velez, and Gustavo R. Zlauvinen.
Special thanks are also due to colleagues at the UN Secretariat: in particular Henk-Jan Brinkman, Marta Mauras, Robert Orr, and Abiodun Williams in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General. Ibrahim Gambari, Eloho Otobo, and Yvette Stephens provided tremendous support from the office of the Secretary-General's Special Advisor on Africa. In the Department of Public Information, Sue Markham, Pragati Pascale, and Tim Wall offered tremendous assistance. Numerous colleagues in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs provided tremendous support throughout the Project, including Joseph Chamie and his team at the Population Division; Robert Johnston Francesca Perucci and team in the Statistics Division; and Johan Schölvinck.
The UN Millennium Project also benefited from collaboration with colleagues at the Millennium Campaign: including Eveline Herfkens, Salil Shetty, Fernando Casado, Nisha Chatani-Rizvi, Patricia Garce, Lucille Merks, Marina Ponti, Ingrid Sanders, Marisol Sanjines, Hellen Wangusa, Carol Welch, and Erna Witoelar.
The UN Millennium Project is grateful for its collaboration with and comments from the Secretariat of the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD), including its distinguished chair Wiseman Nkuhlu, its agricultural advisor Richard Mkandawire, and its indefatigable MDG specialist, Khadija Bah.
The UN Millennium Project benefited from several high-level consultations with members of the OECD/DAC. The Project gratefully acknowledges the Government of Sweden for hosting a high-level discussion in Stockholm in February 2004. The Project also thanks Richard Manning, Brian Hammond, and colleagues for convening a meaning of DAC leaders in Paris in July 2004. Masood Ahmed, Richard Martini, Sharon White, and colleagues in the UK Department for International Development also hosted an extremely constructive final consultation with DAC members in London during October 2004. The Project also thanks Jean-Pierre Landau for numerous helpful conversations. |
