G Shabbir Cheema Senior Fellow, Research Program Director, Asia Pacific Governance and Democracy Initiative, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Shabbir Cheema is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Previously, he was the Director of Democratic Governance Division of U.N. Development Program (UNDP) in New York and the Director of Asia-Pacific Governance and Democracy Initiative of East-West Center in Hawaii.
As a senior UN official, Cheema prepared the UNDP policy papers on democratic governance, urban management, and anti- corruption and provided leadership in crafting UN- assisted governance training and advisory services programs in over 25 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Arab Region. He was the Program Director of the Global Forum on Reinventing Government and the Convener of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Study Team of Eminent Scholars on Decentralization. As the UN team leader, he supported the UN International Conferences on Least Developed Countries, New and Restored Democracies and HABITAT II. He has undertaken consultancy assignments for Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, U.S. Agency for International Development, Swedish International Development Agency, and United Nations. He holds a Ph.D in political science from the University of Hawaii.
He is the co-author of The Evolution of Development Thinking: Governance, Economics, Assistance and Security (Palgrave Macmillan 2016) and the author of Building Democratic Institutions: Governance Reform in Developing Countries (Kumarian Press, 2005), and Urban Shelter and Services (Praeger 1987). He is the contributor and co-editor of the four volume Series on Trends and Innovations in Governance (United Nations University Press, 2010); five volume series on Reinventing Governance (United Nations 2006); Decentralizing Governance: Emerging Concepts and Practices (Brookings Institution Press in cooperation with Harvard University, 2007), Reinventing Government for the Twenty First Century: State Capacity in a Globalizing Society (Kumarian Press, 2003), and Decentralization and Development (Sage Publications, 1984).
Contact : Email shabbir_cheema@hks.harvard.edu
