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Dan Banik

Norwegian political scientist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Dan Banik is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Oslo SDG Initiative at the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Oslo and is Academic Director of the Knowledge Hub on Democracy, Circle U.[1] Dan Banik is the co-lead for the Cluster of Research Excellence, The Politics of Sustainable Development.[2] Outside of Norway he holds a position as an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria[3] and Chair Professor at the College of International Development and Global Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing.[4]

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Banik is a part of several projects at the University of Oslo and in collaboration with other universities outside of Norway. His projects focus on development and governance in Africa and Asia.[4][5] His research areas include, governance for sustainable development, the SDGs, democracy, poverty reduction, geopolitics, electricity access in Africa, India's healthcare paradox, and more.[1][2][6]

Banik works extensively in Ethiopia, and has developed a Centre for Sustainable Development (CSD), at Addis Ababa University[7] The Center was established with a collaborative project among Addis Ababa University, the University of Oslo, and the University of Malawi with financial support from the Norwegian Development Agency (Norad).[8] CSD runs a multidisciplinary PhD program, serves as a hub for interdisciplinary research and engages in community services in towards advancing sustainability and sustainable development. CSD currently has 24 PhD students, and three post doctoral fellows.[8]

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.[9]

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.[4] 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.[10]

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.[10][11]

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.[12][13] Banik was also, previously, the supervisor for the Minister when she wrote her master's thesis.[13]

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.[4][14] The professor is often referred to as an expert on the topics himself, and is regularly interviewed to give expert opinion in Norwegian media.[15][16] Banik's podcast reaches a world-wide audience with listeners from more than 140 countries.[17] 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.[18]

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Selected publications

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  • 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.

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Personal life

Banik is married to Vibeke Kieding Banik.[10]

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