Barry Herman is Visiting Senior Fellow at the Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA) of The New School in New York. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Global Integrity, a research NGO based in Washington that works with independent scholars and investigative reporters on assessing laws, institutions and practices to improve governance and limit corruption in developed and developing countries. In addition, from 2004 to 2009 he co-chaired the Task Force on Debt Restructuring and Sovereign Bankruptcy at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University (See below, Overcoming Developing Country Debt Crises, Oxford University Press, 2010). He also co-directed with Christian Barry of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs the “debt and ethics” project in GPIA, which brought together philosophers, theologians, lawyers and economists to consider ethical issues in dealing with overindebted developing countries (see below Dealing Fairly with Developing Country Debt, Wiley/Blackwell Publishing, 2007).
He completed almost 30 years in the United Nations Secretariat in 2005, the last two years of which were as Senior Advisor in the Financing for Development Office in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). In that capacity, he was DESA’s team leader for two sets of multi-stakeholder consultations encompassing governments, international organizations, the private sector and civil society. The first, on "Building Inclusive Financial Sectors for Development" (jointly with the UN Capital Development Fund), led to the UN “Blue Book” of the same title, a distillation of contrasting views and experiences to help countries develop national strategies to build inclusive financial sectors. The second was on "Sovereign Debt for Sustained Development" (jointly with UNCTAD, International Monetary Fund and the World Bank) and focused on ways developing countries might better address their debt in “good and bad times.” He was part of the Secretariat team for the Monterrey Summit on Financing for Development in 2002. Earlier, he led the team that produced the UN’s annual World Economic and Social Survey. Before joining the UN Secretariat in 1976, he taught development and international economics. He holds a PhD from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
2010
Herman, Barry, José Antonio Ocampo and Shari Spiegel (editors and joint authors), Overcoming Developing Country Debt Crises, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press.
2007
Barry, Christian, Barry Herman and Lydia Tomitova (editors and joint authors), Dealing Fairly with Developing Country Debt, Boston and Oxford, Wiley/Blackwell Publishing, 2007.
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
2010
Herman, Barry, "Time for Change in Global Trade and Financial Governance," in Aldo Caliari, ed., Debt and Trade: Making Linkages for the Promotion of Development, South Centre and Center of Concern, Geneva, 2010, pp. 1-17.Herman, Barry, "Why the Code of Conduct for Resolving Sovereign Debt Crises Falls Short," in Barry Herman, José Antonio Ocampo and Shari Spiegel, eds., Overcoming Developing Country Debt Crises, see above.
2009
Herman, Barry, "We Can Have Better Global Economic Governance," The India Economy Review, vol. 6., No. 2 (May 2009), pp. 15-19.
2008
Herman, Barry, "Justice and Developing Country Debt," in M. N. Bhavani, ed., Odious Debts: Contemporary Issues, Hyderabad, AMICUS Books, pp. 104-135.
ARTICLES IN NEWSPAPERS, NEWSLETTERS AND MAGAZINES...
2008
Herman, Barry, "United Nations as a Forum for Reform of Global Institutions," Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai), November 8, 2008, pp. 15-19.
Herman, Barry, "Global Trade and Financial Governance Together," Challenge, September/October 2008), pp. 102-122.
Herman, Barry, "Redesingning Global Economic Governance", Policy Innovations, webzine of Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, May 6, 2008; reprinted in Asia Times (May 7), South Bulletin (June 1) and Road to Doha (UN, June issue).