BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Kwesi Botchwey

          Dr. Botchwey is Director of Africa Programs for the Harvard Institute for International Development. A leading advocate of African economic reform, he spearheaded a program of economic transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in his capactiy as Ghana’s Minister of Finance from 1982 to 1995.

Victor Carpenter

          Dr. Carpenter has been an active proponent of South African liberation since he was the minister of the Unitarian Church of South Africa in Capetown from 1962-67. He then served as a minister in Philadelphia, Boston, and San Francisco.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

          Dr. Gates is the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English; Chair, Afro-American Studies and Director, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University. His editorial activities include the Black Periodical Literature Project, the Norton Anthology of Afro-American Literature, and the recent publication of Microsoft’s Encarta Africana, a CD-ROM encyclopedia devoted to African culture worldwide.

Peter J. Gomes

          Dr. Gomes is Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard University and Pusey Minister in The Memorial Church. He is the author of the 1996 New York Times best seller The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart.

Richard M. Hunt

          Dr. Hunt has been University Marshal at Harvard since 1982. He is a Senior Lecturer in Social Studies in the University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and an officer in the Harvard International Office.

Neil Rudenstine

          Dr. Rudenstine is the President of Harvard Universsity

Jeffrey D. Sachs

          Dr. Sachs, Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade at Harvard University, has directed the Harvard Institute for International Development since 1995. Professor Sachs serves as an economic advisor to developing countries worldwide. He has also been a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the OECD, andthe United Nations Development Program.

Herbert F. Vetter

          Dr. Vetter is now retired from his triple role as the Minister at Large of the First Parish in Cambridge, Harvard Square, a Chaplain to the University, and Director of Cambridge Forum.

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