ONLINE LIVE CLASS: Professor David Sogge (Transnational Institute – Amsterdam) will deliver the lecture on “Questioning Development Aid” on Saturday October 26th, 2024 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Professor David Sogge works as an independent scholar based in Amsterdam, where he is affiliated with the Transnational Institute, on whose Board he served. He was also associated with the Norwegian think-tank on peace-making, NOREF. His professional activities since 1970, under assignments related to foreign aid, took him to Vietnam, Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union, although most of his work centred on southern Africa, especially Angola and Mozambique. Among his books are Compassion and Calculation. The Business of Private Foreign Aid; Mozambique: Perspectives on Aid and the Civil Sector; and Give and Take. What’s the Matter with Foreign Aid. He has contributed chapters to Introduction to International Development Studies (Oxford University Press), The Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Modern World, and the Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid. Today he serves as a guest lecturer in development studies at the University of Amsterdam and the Free University of Brussels, as well as at academic encounters elsewhere, particularly in Brazil. Trained at Harvard College, David earned his graduate degrees from Princeton University and the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, today part of Erasmus University, Rotterdam.  [read more]