Distinguished Visitors

Recent Distinguished Visitors Supported by the Berry Center

Cillian Ryan, University of Birmingham (England)

Professor Ryan teaches economics at the University of Birmingham and specializes in international trade. He holds the John Monnet chair in European Economics, and he is also the Director of Education in the College of Social Sciences. At Cornell he spoke to students in the international economics seminar on trade theory, and gave a public presentation on agriculture and trade policy in the European Union.

David Korslund '76, Global Alliance for Banking on Values

Korslund is a senior advisor at the Global Alliance for Banking on Values, a banking consortium that supports projects to alleviate poverty and promote environmental sustainability. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago-based ShoreBank, and has served as an Executive Vice President at ABN AMRO Bank in The Netherlands. In his classroom visit he discussed micro-finance and social entrepreneurship, and he led a workshop on sustainable banking.

John Murray, health care consultant, World Health Organization, Global Alliance for Banking on Values

Murray, a physician by training, has worked on the design and implementation of primary health care programs in 15 countries in Asia and Africa. He has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization, focusing his work on maternal and child health. In addition to attending a politics class on human rights, he presented a public lecture entitled “9 Million Child Deaths: Where, Why and What Can Be Done”. He also met with students reading Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains, an account of Paul Farmer, whose transformative public health projects have saved lives in Haiti and other poor regions.

Other Recent Distinguished Visitors

• Megan Tady, media analyst, attended Sociology course "Media and the Public Mind", and Computer Science course "Privacy, Piracy and the Public Good"
• Eric Sudol '03, Dallas Cowboys sales executive, met with students in the sports psychology course, and gave a public presentation on the economics of financing sports arenas
• Dave Gatton '75, US Conference of Mayors (Washington, DC.), participated in the “Urban Politics” course, and made a public presentation, "Earth in the Balance: America's Cities in a Green, Global Economy"
• Bruce Dalgaard, economics professor at St. Olaf College (Minnesota), met with students in the “International Economics” class, and gave a public lecture entitled "Financial Free-Fall: Japan's Lost Decade and its Implications for the U.S."
• Forrest Nelson, economics professor at the University of Iowa, spoke with students about the Iowa Electronic Markets
• Stephen Handler, ClearSky Climate Solutions (Montana), met with the “Environmental Perspectives" class to discuss carbon trading
• Michael Savarese, professor of marine science at Florida Gulf Coast University, was on campus to discuss environmental policy, with a focus on the restoration of the Everglades in southwest Florida.
• Pablo Sitjar, partner in the Southern Cone Group investment firm based in Montevideo, Uruguay, attended several economics classes, and lectured on global financial integration and emerging markets.