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Wieger Bakker
Wieger Bakker is an associate professor at the Utrecht School of Governance since 2000. He studied Sociology at Utrecht University and in 1998 he started teaching at the Law Faculty for the master Law, Governance and Management.
Ladislav Rabusic
Ladislav Rabusic is Professor at the Department of Sociology, School of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic). He has been teaching courses on methods of social research, data analysis, population studies, ands the course on ageing and society. His research interests are focused mainly on topics related to social problems and to population studies. He has written on unemployment in the Czech Republic, on Czech subjective poverty, on functional literacy. Within population studies he has concentrated on problems of Czech low fertility, dynamic ageing of Czech society and on perception of immigrants. He is the author of several books (in Czech) and number of articles (both in Czech and in English).
Bart van Steenbergen
Bart van Steenbergen studied sociology and political science at that university of Utrecht (NL) and at Temple University (Philadelphia, USA). He was Lecturer and later on Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Science of Utrecht University, John Parker Compton Fellow at Princeton University and Research Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. Momentarily he is Extraordinary Professor in Foresight Studies at Nyenrode University (NL). He was one of the founders and long term board member of the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) and of the European Sociological Association (ESA). He has written and edited numerous books and articles mostly in the field of future studies, but also on topics like citizenship and globalization. He is still active as guest-professor, mostly on the future of Europe at a number of European universities and university centers in Cluj and Bucharest (Romania), Brno and Prague (Czech Republic) Gorizia (Italy), Dubrovnik (Croatia),Murcia (Spain).
Paul Stubbs
Paul Stubbs is a UK-born sociologist who has lived and worked in Croatia since 1993. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics in Zagreb, where he is researching the influence of external actors on regional and local development, following on from other work critical of external actors in the post-Yugoslčav countries. Amongst his other research interests are: Community Development and Mobilisation; Peace Building; Online Activism; Social Policy, Welfare Governance and Welfare Reform; Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Reporting; and Social Capital, Innovation and Networking. A number of his texts can be downloaded from www.gaspp.org.