Welcome Faculty
The School of Environment, Resources and Development cordially welcome the new faculty members, starting June 2002 as follows:
Dr. Suresh Chandra Srivastava, Visiting Professor in the Electric Power System Management Field of Study, the Energy (E) Program
Dr. Srivastava (left), a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, secured his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. He has been teaching both postgraduate and undergraduate levels there for more than 13 years and has published about 112 papers in the international journals and proceedings. He also possesses practical experience of 12 years in a consultancy firm, Engineers India Ltd., New Delhi. He is a senior member of IEEE; Life member of Systems Society of India and Society of Power Engineers, India; Fellow of Institution of Engineers, IETE, India, and Indian National Academy of Engineering.
Dr. Srivastava is teaching the course ED14.21-Power System Dynamics and Stability in this May 2002 Term and can be contacted at room ET215, Energy building I, tel. 5405, e-mail: srivastava@ait.ac.th
Dr. Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt, Associate Professor in the Natural Resources Management, Rural Development, Gender and Resources (RDGR) Program
Dr. Schmidt-Vogt (right) studied Geography and Anglistics at Freiburg University, Germany, University of Saskatoon, Canada and Heidelberg University, Germany. Dr. Schmidt-Vogt specializes in landscape ecology, human ecology, agroforestry.
Dr. Schmidt-Vogt is offering a course ED012.22-Natural Resources Management Planning in this May 2002 Term and can be contacted at room W211, SERD bldg., tel. 6144, e-mail: schmidt@ait.ac.th
Dr. Cecilia Ng, Visiting Associate Professor at the Gender and Development Field of Study.
Dr. Ng (left) was previously an Associate Professor at Universiti Putra Malaysia before she opted for early retirement in July 2000. She studied at Swarthmore College, Harvard University and the University of Malaya. From 1994 till 1999 she was a Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute for New Technologies (Maastricht, The Netherlands) where -- with Professor Swasti Mitter -- she coordinated two research projects on Technological Change and Women's Employment in Asia, and Teleworking and Development in Malaysia.
She will be mainly involved in teaching the course entitled 'New Technologies, Industrialisation and Gender, as well as editing the AIT-based Journal of Gender, Development and Technology. Dr. Cecilia is at AIT for a period of nine weeks, until early August.
Dr. Cecilia has conducted research and published widely on gender, development and work, with a focus on globalisation, technological change and women's employment. She has also written on the women's movement in Malaysia. Her latest publications are Positioning Women in Malaysia: Class and Gender in an Industrializing State (1999, London: Macmillan), and Teleworking and Development in Malaysia (ed.) (2001, Kuala Lumpur: UNDP).
She is active in women's groups in Malaysia and is a founder member of the Women's Development Collective (WDC) and the All Women's Action Society (AWAM), where she is involved in research, training and advocacy on advancing women's issues in general, and sexual harassment in the workplace in particular.
The School of Management is pleased to welcome the following Vising Faculty in May 2002 Term.
Dr. Xu Honggang from China - is joining as a Visiting Associate Professor.
Dr. Xu received her BS Urban Planning and Environmental Studies from Beijing University in 1988;
MS Natural Resource Planning and Management from AIT in 1995 and her PhD in 1999.
Her dissertation was entitled Infrastructure Planing in a Dualist Agricultural Economic System: A Search for a Policy Framework
She will teach the course SM02.98C 'Management System Dynamics' Her office is in room 221, ext. 6373, email: xuhonggang@ait.ac.th
Prof. Jyoti P. Gupta is from France. He is joining the SOM Bi-lingual Program and
will teach the course SM03.36 'Financial Strategy of Firms' for one week, 20-24 May 2002.
Prof. Gupta received his B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics from Lucknow University, India; B.Tech (Honors) in
Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India and Ph.D., from the University of Manchester,
United Kingdom. His office is room 213, ext. 5666.
Prof. Philipe Spieser from France will be jointly delivering the course SM03.36 with Prof. Jyoti P. Gupta for a
period of one week, 29 June - 5 July 2002. Prof. Spieser received his Docteur es Science Economiques
D.E.A. de Science Economiques Diplome H.E.C. from the Diplome de l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. His office is
room 213, ext. 5666.