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NATIONALITY:
UK born; USA
(naturalized)
LANGUAGES:
English, French, Spanish
SPECIALTIES: :
public policy on human resources development & livelihoods;
education, health, employment, human rights and special
needs; virtual teams; information technologies (IT) and
social development.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE:
2002-11 Adjunct Professor, Management for International Affairs, SIPA, Columbia University, New York
2010-11 Faculty Adviser to joint Columbia University/UNDP team on capacity development
2010-11 Consultant to Azerbaijan Ministry of Labor and
Social Protection on World Bank-funded employment service program
2009-2010 Consultant to UN System Staff College, Turin, Italy on professional certification strategy
2008-9 Instructor/Adviser, UNDP Virtual Development Academy
2007-9 Team Leader, EU integration NHDR for Albania; Consultant on
Virtual office networks for human development, UNDP Baku, and
UNRWA Lebanon on `the missing male in schools’; also private
sector adviser to HH Mozah Bint Nasser Program on Youth Unemployment,
Qatar, and to Conserva Inc. and Bratislava Regional Center UNDP on
disability policy.
2006 Virtual panelist/author UNESCO/ UNEVOC Vietnam Conference on TVET & Sustainable Development
2006-8 Professional Development Adviser, Virtual internetwork, UNDP Baku, Azerbaijan.
2006 Consultant to UNDP Policy Bureau on Capacity Development and Internetworks.
2006 Consultant to Government of Azerbaijan, Human Resources Development and IT.
Nov 2004 to June 2005. Consultant to UNDP on program management/capacity development guidelines.
2004 Consultant to Asian Development Bank on program administration/management in 5-country study.
2004 Consultant to World Bank, Office of Advisor on Disability &
Development, and Norwegian Government on Education For All (EFA)
Flagship framework.
2003 Consultant to UNDP Policy Bureau on project management systems;
Consultant to World Bank, diversity and social development;
Consultant to MHCI on labour market information systems, Sana’a,
Yemen; Consultant to UNDP Baku and the Azerbaijan Government on
employment policy.
1999 – 2002: Consultant to UNDP on human resources development ;
Consultant/Adviser to several multilateral and bilateral development
organizations on IT & EFA: HIV/AIDS and human development.
Consultant to UNESCO and DFID on EFA Framework for Dakar Conference.
1998 Director (AI) Global Information Network Hub, United Nations Development Program, and
Deputy Director, Social Development Division, Bureau of Development Policy, UNDP.
1988-1997 Principal Technical Advisor (HRD), UNDP Bureau for Policy and Program Support.
[Specialty: IT and sustainable human development policy in labor, education and health sectors]
1988-1994 Adjunct Professor of Psychology, North Carolina State University.
1977-1988. Senior Research Psychologist, Center for Population and Policy Studies.
Research Triangle Institute, North Carolina. Specialty: education/health/employment.
l972 -l977. Faculty Research Associate, and Instructor, North Carolina State University
Department of Psychology, Raleigh, North Carolina.
l970 - l972. Director, Bowen Residence Program, North Carolina State University.
Summer l969. Research Psychologist, PROJECT THEMIS. Institute of Arctic Biology,
University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska. Project THEMIS Psychological
research on effects of high altitude on human behaviour during ascents
of Mt Mckinley.
l968-l970. Graduate Teaching Assistant and Instructor, Department of Psychology,
North Carolina State University.
l966-l967. Leader, New Zealand Antarctic Research Program Expedition to Victory
Mountains, Antarctica.
l96l - l968. Senior and Chief Instructor, Outward Bound Schools in England, Australia,
New Zealand and United States.
l956 - l967. Royal Marines Commando U.K.; RMFVR service with Australian
Commando, and New Zealand AIrforce. Lieutenant/Instructor and
amphibious assault specialist at Commando School, Royal Marines,
Bickleigh. Instructor with NSW Regiment of Commando, and NZAF Mountain
Rescue Team.
EDUCATION:
B.A.
(1961) (Honors), M.A. (1968) Oxford University, England 1961. M.Sc.,
(1972),
PH.D.
(1976) (Psychology) North Carolina State University. USA.
AWARDS:
1993
, 1998 UNDP Dedicated Service Awards
1983
RTI Professional Development Award for research on public sector social
policy.
1970.
National Academy of Sciences Dissertation Award for mathematical game
theory research.
1958-1961
County Scholarship to Exeter College, Oxford.
RECENT
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2010-2011 On-site research in Baku, and Vienna on Active Labor Market Programs
Fall 2009 through Summer 2010, Consultant, UN System Staff College, Torino, Italy
Instructor/Adviser, UNDP Consortium Virtual Development Academy, Jakarta, Indonesia, January 2009
Team Leader, NHDR UNDP Tirana, Albania 2007-8
‘Expert’ Participant, Workshop on Youth Unemployment, Doha, Qatar, June 2007
Moderator, HR Panel, UNDP Conference `Let the Evidence Speak’; Madrid, Spain, 2006
Consultant to UNDP, Baku and Azerbaijan Government on HR policy and IT development. 2005-6
Management Consultant to United Nations Development Program, New York 2005, 2006.
Informal (pro bono) consultations to University of Puerto Rico, Recinto de Rio Piedras. 2004-5
Two months onsite, in-country consultation with ADB on 5-country management study in South Asia. 2004.
Eight weeks consultancy to World Bank, Norwegian Government and EFA (UNESCO) Flagship on Disability. 2004
Five weeks consulting in Azerbaijan for national employment planning September 2003
Consultant to UNDP Policy Bureau on country program management policy May-August 2003
Five weeks on labour market information in Yemen July/August 2003
Consultant to World Bank on Diversity and Social Development 2002-4
Senior Author, UN Secretary-General’s Report on Human Resources Development, 1995, 2001,
Consultant to UNDP Ukraine on human resources development 2001
UNDP Senior Delegate to AIDS 2000, Durban, South Africa, July 2000.
Consultant to UK/DFID, USAID, UNESCO, UNDP, UNICEF, UNAIDS, and Education
Development Center, Newton, Massachusetts. 1998-2000.
UNDP Senior Delegate, World Education Forum, Dakar, Senegal, April 2000
Participant/Adviser, Dialog on Youth Employment Summit, J F Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University, September 15 – 15th 1999.
Panellist, 2nd International Vocational/Technical Education Congress, Seoul, Korea April 26 – 30th, 1999
UNDP Head of Delegation, World Conference on Higher Education, Paris, France, 1998.
UNDP Principal Officer, UNDP Global Hub INTERNET design project 1997-1998.
ILO INTERNET `Virtual’ Panel of Experts on Technology & Jobs 1998
UNDP International Working Group on Sustainable Livelihoods, 1996-1998
Chair, UNDP INTERNET Panel, International GKD97 Conference, Toronto, 1997.
Head, UNDP
delegation to International Adult Education Conference (CONFINTEA V)
International Bureau of Education, Hamburg, Germany 1997.
UNDP Principal Officer, Social Summit INTERNET Study. 1994-6.
Chair, UNDP Working Group, World Summit on Social Development 1994-1995.
UNDP Delegate and Senior Liaison, International Consultative Forum, Education for All, 1992-8.
UNDP Coordinator and Delegate, World Conference on Education for All, Jomtien, Thailand 1990
INTERNATIONAL
EXPERIENCE PRIOR TO JOINING UNDP:
Consultant
to the World Bank and Government of Indonesia on 2nd Health Sector Loan
Project, Kalimantan Timur and Nusa Tengara Barat, 1988.
Team
Leader, Human Resources Development Assessment in the Water Sector, USAID/WASH
Project, Swaziland, 1987.
Consultant
to World Bank and Municipal Corporations of Madras and Bombay, India,
in Health & Family Welfare, 1986-1987.
Senior
Project team member on Harvard University/USAID Education Project
BRIDGES, 1985-88.
Field
work in Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama 1986, and Burundi
1986-88.
Consultant
to World Bank, and Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Planning,
Population and Welfare Division, on human resources management,
September 1985.
Consultant
to World Bank, and Government of Nepal, Ministry of Health, on human
resources development in the population sector, January to March 1985,
and September 1985.
Consultant
to Asian Development Bank for higher education institutional planning
for relocation of Sriwijaya University, South Sumatra, Indonesia, 1984.
RTI
project leader in preparation of HRD planning guidelines for developing
countries (USAID); and occupational employment estimates for Puerto
Rico (Puerto Rico Department of Labour), 1983.
OFFICIAL
COUNTRY ASSIGNMENTS EXPERIENCE (ONSITE)
Team
Leader/Senior Representative on official multi- or bi-lateral human
development missions/assignments to Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan,
Bangladesh, Bahrain, Botswana, Brazil, Burundi, Cambodia, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras,
India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kenya,
Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Oman,
Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Santo Domingo,
Senegal, Slovakia, South Africa, Swaziland, Switzerland, Tanzania,
Thailand, Trinidad, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Yemen,
Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Previous citizen and/or permanent resident of UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
OTHER
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Chair, Mayoral Task Force on Higher Education, Stamford, Connecticut , 2010-11
Senior Associate, the RISE Institute, Washington DC
Reviewer, World Public Sector Report, United Nations, New York. 2005
Adviser to UK Government, several UN agencies, and University of Pretoria on impact of HIV/AIDS on
education sectors, 1998-2000,
Adviser to GINIE project of University of Pittsburgh 1998-present, see
Independent Task Force on Community Action for Social Development. Department of
International Health. Johns Hopkins University. 1994-5.
ILO Panel on New Approaches to Manpower Planning & Analysis, Geneva, 1991.
Advisory Group, National Adult Literacy Center, University of Pennsylvania. 1990-95.
UNESCO International Working Group on Education, International Institute of
Educational Planning, Paris, France. 1988-1992
Senior Consultant, U.S. National Assessment of Vocational Education, 1986.
Associate Editor, Evaluation Review, 1984-87.
Consultant to Governor's Oversight Committee on Labour Market Information, North Carolina, 1983.
U.S. Southern Regional Education Board Advisory Panel on Human Resource Development, 1983.
Consultant to the Southern Growth Policies Board on interstate HRD policy development, 1983 -1984.
Member, National Training Safety Review Panel, Outward Bound Incorporated, 1982.
Research Associate, Committee on Evaluation of Employment and Training Programs,
National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., l979.
Guest Lecturer, Columbia U; North Carolina at Chapel Hill; North Carolina State University, and Duke.
Member, North Carolina State Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, N.C.
Department of Administration, l978.
Journal article reviews for Psychological Bulletin, Science, Psychological Review, and
Evaluation Review, 1975-87.
National Task Force on Vocational Education Data Systems, Washington, D.C. 1977.
MAJOR
RECENT PRESENTATIONS/PAPERS:
Lawrence
J.E.S. Keynote address to European Ropes Course Association on origin
of challenge courses in military and civilian settings. Swindon, UK.
December 2010
Lawrence J.E.S. A Certification Strategy for the UN Staff College. Turin, Italy, June 2010
Lawrence J.E.S. Keynote Address to 20th Anniversary, American
Association for Challenge Course Technologies, Atlanta, Ga. February
2010
Lawrence J.E.S. Keynote Address: United Nations and Human Resources Development Policy. Texas A&M University. April 2008.
Lawrence J.E.S. UN Perspectives on HRD. Keynote Address, University of Minnesota, Chataqua Celebration, May 2008
Lawrence J.E.S. The Reverse Gender Gap in Palestine: a Worldwide Problem? Paper prepared for UNRWA Beirut. November 2007.
Lawrence J.E.S. Framework for ECIS Programming for Persons Living with
Disabilities. Regional Center, UNDP Bratislava. October 2007
Facilitator/Chair, Human Resources Panel, `Let the Evidence Speak’ Forum on Capacity Development, Madrid, Spain 2006
Moderator, University of Connecticut World Forum Panel, `Power of the
Vote Wordlwide’. National Endowment for Democracy. September 28,
2005.
Author, Vietnam and Bangladesh Country Reports on SES five country study to ADB Manila, October 2004.
Presenter, Panel on International Development and HRD, 18th IDB Education Meeting, Sydney, Australia, October, 2004
Author, Flagship Action Framework paper on Education for All: Keeping
the Promise of Inclusion for People with Disabilities. For World Bank
Disability and Development Team. 2004
Author, working paper on Education for Tolerance: a New Urgency. For World Bank Human Development Network. 2003.
Contributor, team report on employment policy for Government of Azerbaijan, Baku, September 2003
Labour Market Information for Government of Yemen, San’aa August 2003
Web-based Course materials on Management & International Relations. Columbia University 2003
Guest Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh, University of Pennsylvania,
University of Connecticut, andUniversity of North Carolina. 2000 -2002
Prepared First Draft of Dakar Framework on Education for All, International EFA Steering Committee, UNESCO, Paris, France 1999.
Panellist, EFA Regional Conference for Southern Africa, Johannesburg, December 1999.
Co-author, UNDP paper on Education and Human Rights. Presented to
Committee on Economic, Socialand Cultural Rights, Geneva, November 1998.
Plenary Address, World Conference on Higher Education, Paris, 1998. see
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0011/001170/117077e.pdf
Chair, Panel on Sustainable Livelihoods, Global Knowledge Development
Conference, Toronto, June 1997(The INTERNET as a discussion forum for
development).
Teamleader, UN Secretary-General’s Report on Human Resources Development, 1995, 2001
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS (full list available on request):
Lawrence J E S What is Canada's Educational Edge? Association of Teachers of Puerto Rico. In Press.
Lawrence J E S. International Review of Employment Service Policy &
Practice. Technical Report to Government of Azerbaijan and World Bank,
Baku, January 2011.
Lawrence J.E.S. and Richard Flaman. Capacity Development and
Integration with the European Union. National Human Development Report
for Albania. UN Development Program. Tirana. August 2010.
http://78.136.31.142/en/reports/national/europethecis/albania/Albania_NHDR_2010.pdf
Lawrence J.E.S. and Tate S. Education & Sustainable Livelihoods. In
Fien J., MaClean R., and Park Man-Gon. Work, Learning and Sustainable
Development: Opportunities and Challenges. Springer Publications:
Secaucus NJ. (2009).
Lawrence J.E.S. TVET and Sustainable Livelihoods in the Caucasus: the
case of Azerbaijan. in Work, Learning and Sustainable Development:
Opportunities and Challenges. Springer Publications: Secaucus NJ.
(2009). http://www.springerlink.com/content/u41g4h454kk32777/
Lawrence J.E.S. et al. A Response to Wang and Swanson’s Article
on National HRD. Human Resource Development Review, Vol. 7, No. 2,
241-258 (2008).
Hopkins, M.J.Lawrence J.E.S., Stephens T. , Webster A.`Black Gold to
Human Gold’ Report to Azerbaijan Ministry of Economic
Development. Baku. July 2007 see
www.un-az.org/doc/BGHG_full_report1.pdf
Lawrence J.E.S. Knowledge Services & Learning. Conference Paper #3,
UNDP Capacity Development Group November 2006.
http://lencd.com/data/docs/235-Concept%20Note_Knowledge%20Services%20and%20Learning.pdf
Lawrence J.E.S. and Wignaraja K. Guide on UNDP Role In A Changing Aid
Environment: Direct Budget Support, SWAps, Basket Funds. UNDP Policy
Bureau. New York. January 2005.
Lawrence, J E S and Alakbarov U. Rapid Progress of ICT in Azerbaijan:
Information Technologies in the Public Service. In "Community
Informatics and Community Networking in the CIS: Practical and Policy
Implications" Gurstein M., Tischenko V. (Ed.) Editorial URSS. Moscow.
2004 see
Lawrence J.E.S. The Right to Education for Persons with Disabilities:
Towards Inclusion. Conceptual Paper for UNESCO Education for All
Flagship. Paris, France. December 2004. See
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001378/137873e.pdf
Lawrence J.E.S. Meeting EFA goals by 2015: making education more
inclusive. Proceedings of 18TH IDP Australian International Education
Conference, Sydney, Australia. October 2004.
J.E.S. Lawrence. S Renner, J. Vandemoortele. Resolving the PIU Dilemma. Practice Note for UNDP Policy Bureau, New York. 2004.
J.E.S. Lawrence. The Internet & Social Development: African Voices.
Perspectives in Education. University of Pretoria RSA. July 2002 pp
55-75. Reprinted in UNESCO Online Publication: The HIV Challenge to
Education. A Collection of Essays. Chapter 6. 2004.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001376/137638e.pdf
J.E.S. Lawrence, Senior Author, Human Resources Development: UN Secretary General’s Report to General Assembly 2001
http://www.un.org/ga/56/document.htm#151
J. E.S. Lawrence E-Dialogue, Social Policy, and the United Nations. TechKnowlogia. July/August 2001
http://www.techknowlogia.org/TKL_active_pages2/CurrentArticles/main.asp?FileType=HTML&ArticleID=293
J. Lawrence & Brodman J. Linking Communities to Global
Policy-Making. In Gurstein M. (Ed). Community Informatics. Idea Group
Publishing, Hershey, Pa. USA. 2000. pp 470-493. For review see
Lawrence J.E.S., & Tate S. Education & Sustainable Livelihoods. Prepared for
International Working Group on Sustainable Livelihoods . UNDP.
New York. 2000 Lawrence J.E.S. Literacy & Human Resources
Development: an Integrated Approach. Reprinted in Special Edition of
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. World
Literacy 2000. Daniel Wagner (Ed.). 2000, Volume 520.
Lawrence J.E.S. Towards More Sustainable Livelihoods for All:
Proceedings of Second International Congress on Technical/Vocational
Education. Seoul, Korea 1999. Pp 97-114.
Lawrence J.E.S. and Teklu B. Higher Education and Sustainable Human Development:
Key Dimensions of Social Responsibility. Paper presented at World Conference on
Higher Education, Paris, France. October 5th-9th 1998.
Lawrence J.E.S . The Vanishing Concept of `Job’. Proceedings of
CONFINTEA V,International Bureau of Education, Hamburg, Germany 1997.
Lawrence J.E.S. and Singh N. Sustainable Livelihoods and Employment. The
International Journal of Technical Cooperation. Vol 3, No 1, Summer 1997 pp 92-109.
Lawrence J.E.S., Mehrohtra S., Kapitsa L., and Letarde C. The
Kazakhstan Blue Book: Field Report of the UN InterAgency Mission on
Urgent Social Issues in Kazakhstan. Alma Ata. September, 1993.
Lawrence J.E.S. Literacy and Human Resources Development: Annals of the American
Academy of Political and Social Sciences. 520, March 1992, 42-53.
Power C., Lawrence J.E.S., Haddad W., and Habte, A. (Ed). World Conference on
Education for All: Roundtable Themes. In 3 Volumes. UNESCO. Paris, 1992.
Schwille J., Eisemon T.O., Ukobizoba F., Prouty R., Lawrence,J.E.S., Facing up to the
dilemmas of quality. Forum for Advancing Basic Education and Literacy. Harvard
Institute for International Development. January 1992, 7-8.
Lawrence J.E.S. HRD: An Integrated Approach. Journal of Economic Cooperation
among Islamic Countries. Vol 12 Nos 1-2, pp 47-60 January-April 1991.
Lawrence J.E.S. Occupational Information and International Development. NOICC
Occasional Papers #1. National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee,
Washington D.C. 1990.
Lawrence J.E.S., and Balet S.C. Education Planning and the Private Sector in Burundi: a
Pilot Study of 25 Firms. Project BRIDGES. Harvard University. October 1989.
Lawrence J.E.S. Engaging Recipients in Development Evaluation. Evaluation Review, 13, No 3, June 1989, 243-256
Lawrence J.E.S. and Stevens P..A. Human Resources Development in the Swaziland Water Supply Sector.
Prepared for the Technical Sub-Group, National Action Group, Government of Swaziland
USAID Mission to Swaziland Under WASH Activity No. 354. June 1988. http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNABA088.pdf
Lawrence J E S Occupational Information: Status and Sources. In Gael S
(Ed) The Job Analysis Handbook for Business, Industry & Government.
John Wiley. New York 1988. Chapter 4.5 1988. pp. 369-390.
John E.S. Lawrence, Thomas J. Cook. Designing Program Evaluations with
the Help of Stakeholders. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
Vol 2, No 1. 1982 pp120-123.
Lawrence J.E.S. Science and Sentiment.. Psychological Bulletin. Vol 81, 10, 712-720, 1974
http://content.apa.org/journals/bul/81/10/712.pdf
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