Walden Bello

Walden Bello (born 1945) is a Filipino author, academic, and political analyst. He is a professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the Philippines, as well as executive director of Focus on the Global South. Born in Manila, Philippines, he became a political activist following the declaration of Martial Law by then-President Ferdinand Marcos on September 21, 1972.

Walden Bello is the founding director of Focus on the Global South, a policy research institute based in Bangkok, Thailand. Prior to that he was executive director of the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) in Oakland, California. Educated at Princeton University, where he did his doctorate in sociology in 1975, he subsequently taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a research associate with the Center for South East Asian Studies.

In 2003, Bello was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, whose website describes him as "one of the leading critics of the current model of economic globalization, combining the roles of intellectual and activist." [http://www.rightlivelihood.org/recip/2003/bello.htm] Bello is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute (based in Amsterdam), and is a columnist for "Foreign Policy In Focus". In March 2008 he was named Outstanding Public Scholar for2008 by the International Studies Association.

External links

* [http://www.waldenbello.org/ Walden Bello's website]
*Biographical information on [http://www.rightlivelihood.org/recip.htm Right Livelihood Award website]
* [http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?=&text10=fellows_bello&menu=13b Biographical information] from the Transantional Institute
* [http://www.focusweb.org Focus on the Global South]