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Nonresident Senior Fellow

Michael M. Cernea

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement

Michael Cernea focuses on the social dimensions of development, with a specific emphasis on its role in population displacement and resettlement.



Expertise

Development; human rights; displacement and resettlement; poverty

Background

Current Positions
Research Professor, Anthropology and International Affairs at George Washington University

Past Positions

Senior Advisor for Social Policies and Sociology, World Bank; Fellow in Residence, Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences, Head of Social Research Sector, Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of Romania.

Education

BA in Philosophy, University of Bucarest, 1954; PhD, Philosophy and Social Development, University of Bucarest, 1962; Post-Graduate Studies, Centre D'Etudes Sociologiques, EPHE, Paris, 1967; Fellow in Residence, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA, 1970-1971.


Contact Information

202.797.6105
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