Dan Banik

Dan Banik
OccupationProfessor
EmployerUniversity of Oslo
Websitewww.sum.uio.no/personer/vit/danbanik/

Dan Banik is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Oslo SDG Initiative at the Center for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo. Outside of Norway he holds a position as an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria.[1]

Career

Banik is a part of several projects at the University of Oslo and in collaboration with other universities outside of Norway. Mostly the projects revolve around development and governance in Africa and Asia.[1][2] Recently, in October 2023, as the Director of the Oslo SDG Initiative he hosted the 27th Wider Annual Lecture, in partnership with UNU-WIDER, in Oslo, where Pinelopi Goldberg, former Chief Economist of the World Bank, held a lecture.[3]

From 2012 to 2017 he was an adjunct professor at China Agricultural University in Beijing and he held several positions at Stanford University between 2010 and 2017.[1] Between 2014 and 2017, Banik was a Consulting Scholar at Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at the Stanford University, focusing his research on Malawi and Zambia.[4]

Banik has worked with the World Bank as well where he served as the head of the Norwegian-Finnish Trust Fund. Additionally, he sat on the board of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess' Foundation, a foundation that focuses on the support and empowerment of young individuals in Norway.[4][5]

The Norwegian Minister of International Development, Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, appointed Banik to be a part of an expert group that created a report, in 2023, for the Norwegian government concerning finance and development measures to reach the Sustainable Development Goals.[6][7] Banik was also, previously, the supervisor for the Minister when she wrote her master's thesis.[7]

In Pursuit of Development is a podcast hosted by Banik where he discusses development issues and topics such as poverty eradication, democracy and climate change with other leading experts and academics.[1][8] The professor is often referred to as an expert on the topics himself, and is regularly interviewed to give expert opinion in Norwegian media.[9][10] Banik's podcast reaches a world-wide audience with listeners from more than 140 countries.[11] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Banik created online courses about sustainability that were published through University of Oslo's website which attracted more than 12,000 students from all over the world.[12]

Selected publications

Books

  • Chinsinga, Blessings; Dan Banik, eds. (2016-06-22). Political Transition and Inclusive Development in Malawi: The democratic dividend. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315683898. ISBN 978-1-315-68389-8.
  • Banik, Dan, ed. (2016-11-15). The Legal Empowerment Agenda: Poverty, Labour and the Informal Economy in Africa. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315238739. ISBN 978-1-315-23873-9.
  • Banik, Dan (2010). Poverty and elusive development. Oslo: Universitetsforl. ISBN 978-82-15-01218-6.
  • McNeish, John-Andrew; Robbins, Edward; Nielsen, Kenneth; Brøther, Mona Elisabeth (2008). Banik, Dan (ed.). Rights and legal empowerment in eradicating poverty. Farnham: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-7498-6.
  • Banik, Dan (2007). Starvation and India's democracy. Routledge advances in South Asian studies (1. publ ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-96288-6.
  • Banik, Dan (2006). Poverty, politics and development: interdisciplinary perspectives (1. Aufl ed.). Bergen: Fagbokforlaget. ISBN 978-82-450-0397-0.

Journal articles

Personal life

Banik is married to Vibeke Kieding Banik, who also works at the University of Oslo.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Center for Development and the Environment". Center for Development and the Environment. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
  2. ^ "India's Footprint in Africa: South-South Cooperation and the Politics of Gifts and Reciprocity (INDAF)". Center for Development and the Environment. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
  3. ^ "UNU WIDER : Globalization in crisis – confronting a new economic reality". www.wider.unu.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  4. ^ a b c "Dan Banik". cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu. Stanford University. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
  5. ^ "The Crown Prince and Crown Princess' Foundation". www.royalcourt.no. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
  6. ^ Utenriksdepartementet (2023-05-15). "Ekspertgruppe med anbefalinger for norsk utviklingspolitikk". Regjeringen.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2023-12-08.
  7. ^ a b "Flere statsråder har bedt om habilitetsråd". TV 2 (in Norwegian Bokmål). 2023-06-28. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
  8. ^ Banik, Dan (2023-11-22). "In Pursuit of Development | Dan Banik | Substack". globaldevpod.substack.com. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
  9. ^ "Han er et offer i den verste krisen i FNs historie. Grepene som må tas for å redde liv, er både enkle og svært kompliserte". www.aftenposten.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). 2017-07-16. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
  10. ^ "Dramatisk fall av smitte i India". www.vg.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). 2021-02-20. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
  11. ^ "Dan Banik". The Conversation. 2017-11-11. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  12. ^ Løkeland-Stai, Espen (2020-04-18). "Da han ble satt i karantene vervet professoren familien til produksjon av nettkurs". www.khrono.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2023-12-08.