Joint Advisory Board
IDPP’s interdisciplinary Faculty Advisory Board is composed of leading academic scholars from across the American University community. Our International Advisory Board is composed of prominent expert practitioners from across the fields of disability policy, international development and global governance. Together, they comprise our Joint Advisory Board.
Joint Advisory Board Chair
Amb. Luis Gallegos
Chair, G3ICT; Senior Fellow, UNITAR; Chair, UN Committee to Negotiate the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; Former Ambassador of Ecuador to the US
Faculty Advisory Board
Dr. Louis Goodman, Chair
Professor and Dean Emeritus, School of International Service, American University
Dr. Amitav Acharya
Professor and Chair, ASEAN Studies Initiative, School of International Service, American University
Dr. Alida Anderson
Professor, School of Education, College of Arts and Sciences, American University
Dr. Sarah Irvine Belson
Professor and Executive Director, Institute for Innovation in Education, School of Education, College of Arts and Sciences, American University
Dr. Derrick L. Cogburn
Professor and Executive Director, Institute on Disability and Public Policy,
School of International Service, American University
Dr. Robert Dinerstein
Emeritus Professor of Law and Director, Disability Rights Law Clinic, Washington College of Law,
American University
Dr Antonio L. Ellis
Senior Professorial Lecturer and Director, Institute on Education Equity and Justice (SIEEJ), School of Education, American University
Dr. J. Alberto Espinosa
Professor, Kogod School of Business, American University
Dr. Olatokunbo (Toks) Fashola
Researcher in Residence, School of Education, American University
Dr. Mary Hansen
Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, American University
Dr. Pek Koon Heng-Blackburn
Assistant Professor and Director, ASEAN Studies Initiative, School of International Service,
American University
Dr. Eric Hershberg
Professor of Government and Founding Director, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, American University
Dr. Nanette Levinson
Professor and Faculty Co-Director, Internet Governance Lab, School of International Service,
American University
International Advisory Board
Dr. Victor Pineda, Chair
Founder and Executive Director, World Enabled
Ms. Virginia Atkinson
Program Manager, Global Access and Inclusion, International Foundation for Electoral Systems
Dr. Peter Blanck
Chairman, Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University
Ms. Isabel Hodge
Executive Director, U.S. International Council on Disabilities; Vice President, Disabled Peoples' International - North America and Caribbean
Dr. Katherine Kline
United Nations Volunteer Representative, S.E.R.R; Co-chair, Habitat III General Assembly of Partners Older Persons Partner Constituent Group; Member, NGO Committee on Ageing, New York Executive Committee
Mr. Axel Leblois
Executive Director, G3ICT
Dr. Joyce Malombe
Program Officer, Wellspring Advisors
Dr. M.N.G. Mani
Secretary General, International Council of Education for People with Visual Impairment
Ms. Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo
Disability Advisor, The World Bank Group
Mr. Michael Morris
Executive Director, Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University; Director, National Disability Institute
Previous International Advisory Board Members
Ms. Judith Heumann (deceased)
Special Advisor on International Disability Rights, US Department of State
Ms. Christa Skerry White
Senior Vice President, Global Development and Government Relations, Special Olympics