Professor Franklyn Lisk is currently Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR), University of Warwick and was a Professor at the Africa Centre for HIV/AIDS Management, at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, from 2005 to 2007. Prior to that he was founding Director of the ILO Global Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work in Geneva, and ILO Global co-ordinator for UNAIDS. He has published widely on the subject of the economic and social impact and governance of HIV/AIDS, and on globalisation and international development issues. He had two books published this year Global Institutions and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Responding to an International Crisis and Governance of HIV/AIDS: Making participation and accountability count (co-edited with Sophie Harman), both with Routledge.

Dr Sophie Harman is Lecturer in International Politics at City University. Prior to this she was a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR), University of Warwick as part of the joint CSGR-UNDP Governance of HIV/AIDS project. Sophie’s principle areas of academic interest are Global Governance, the World Bank, HIV/AIDS and global health, East Africa, and Civil Society. Her co-edited book (with F.Lisk) Governance of HIV/AIDS Response: Making Participation and Accountability Count was published with Routledge July 2009. Sophie has two books forthcoming this academic year: The World Bank and HIV/AIDS: Setting a Global Agenda (December 2009, Routledge) and Global Health Governance (2010, Routledge, series on Global Institutions).