Workshop Overview
The Measuring Development, Advancing Equity workshop was organized by IU Professor of International Studies Nicole Hassoun, founder and executive director of Global Health Impact (GHI), and sponsored by the Tobias Center. The workshop brought together scholars, international organization leaders, and practitioners to rethink how the world defines, measures, and improves development. By asking who current metrics leave behind, the workshop advanced GHI’s broader effort to create better tools for measuring human progress and building fairer policies.
Workshop Schedule
Introductory Remarks: 8:30-8:45am
Sarah Bauerle Danzman - Associate Professor, Director, Tobias Center for Innovation in International Development
Panel 1: 8:45-9:45am | Measuring Human Development
Chair- Jessica Steinberg, Associate Professor, International Studies, HLS
Presenter - Pedro Conceição, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDР
Commentator - Hussein Banai, Associate Professor, International Studies, HLS
Panel 2: 10:00-11:00am | What Development Practice Really Needs Out of Measures of Development
Chair - Hussein Banai, Associate Professor, International Studies, HLS
Presenter - Ray Offenheiser, Senior Advisor to the Dean; Director, McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business at Notre Dame University and former Director of Oxfam North America
Commentator - Sarah Bauerle Danzman, Associate Professor, Director, Tobias Center for Innovation in International Development
Panel 3: 11:15-12:15pm | Measuring Development Beyond GDP
Chair - Robert Becker, Professor Emeritus, Economics, Indiana University
Presenter - Kaushik Basu, Carl Marks Professor of International Studies, Cornell University and former Chief Economist of the World Bank and Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India
Commentator - Stephen Macekura, Professor, International Studies, HLS
Panel 4: 1:30-2:30pm | New Metrics for Human Development
Chair - Stephen Macekura, Professor, International Studies, HLS
Presenter - Nicole Hassoun, Professor of International Studies, HLS
Commentator - Robert Becker, Economics, Indiana University
Panel 5: 2:30-3:30pm | Concluding Discussion: How can we develop better metrics and use them to promote international development?
Chair - Una Osili, Professor, Lilly Family School of Philanthropу
