As of mid-2002, he
became advisor to the Office of the Prime Minister in Peru,
since early 2001 has been advisor to the Rector of the United
Nations University for Peace, in San José, Costa Rica and in
2000 he became senior associate at the Institute of Development
Studies (IDS), Sussex University.
In 1999 he joined the Board of Governors of the Canadian
International Development Research Centre (IDRC). He has been
Chief of Strategic Planning and Senior Advisor at the World
Bank, Silberberg visiting professor of management and decisions
sciences at the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania, chairman of the United Nations Advisory Committee
on Science and Technology for Development, member of UNESCO's
Science Policy Advisory Council and member of the Rector's
Advisory Committee of the United Nations University. He was
founder and Executive Director of GRADE, a policy oriented think
tank in Lima, Peru, and has been advisor to various ministries,
government agencies, private enterprises and international
organizations in several countries. Mr. Sagasti obtained his PhD
in operations research and social systems sciences at the
University of Pennsylvania, an MSc in industrial engineering at
Pennsylvania State University and his industrial engineering
degree at the National Engineering University in Lima, Peru.
He has published about twenty books including: A foresight
and policy study of the multilateral development banks and
Financing and providing global public goods: expectations and
prospects, both in collaboration with Dr. Keith Bezanson and
published by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 2001;
PERU: Agenda y estrategia para el siglo 21, (Lima, Apoyo
Ediciones, 2000, English translation published by Peru Report in
2001); Equidad, Integración Social y Desarrollo: Hacia un nuevo
enfoque para la política social en América Latina, (with
Javier Iguíñiz and Jürgen Schuldt, Universidad del Pacífico,
199); Development Cooperation in a Fractured Global Order: An
arduous transition (Ottawa, IDRC, 1999); Preventing Deadly
Conflict: Does the World Bank Have a Role? (with John Stremlau,
New York, Carnegie Corporation, 1998); Democracia y Buen
Gobierno, (with P. Patron, N. Lynch and M. Hernandez, Lima,
APOYO, 1995, third edition in 1999 English translation published
by Peru Report in 2001); Imaginemos un Perú Mejor, (Lima, first
edition, GRADE, 1989, second edition Agenda: PERÚ, 1999);
Ciencia, Tecnologia y Desarrollo Latinoamericano, Mexico, Fondo
de Cultura Economica, 1981; and Technology, Planning and
Self-reliant Development (New York, Praeger Publishers, 1979).
He edited (with J. J. Salomon and C. Sachs), The Uncertain
Quest, a sourcebook on science, technology and development
sponsored by the United Nations University, published in
English, French and Spanish between 1994 and 1996. He has also
published more than 200 academic articles and contributes
frequently to newspapers and magazines in Lima, Peru.
Francisco Sagasti has delivered the 1999 W. David Hopper
Lecture at Guelph University and at Memorial University in
Newfoundland, has received the United Nations Peace Medal and
Paul Hoffman Award of the Society for International Development,
and has been a Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in
several United States universities.
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