Category : Author Biographies

Jürgen Kohl is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Max Weber Institute of Sociology, University of Heidelberg, Germany. He holds a PhD from the Department of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim. Professor Kohl was a visiting professor at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. (1991–1993) and a senior researcher at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (1993–1995). He was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence in 1989–1990 and held fellowships at the Hanse Institute of Advanced Studies and the Marsilius College, University of Heidelberg, where he collaborated in the interdisciplinary research project “Perspectives of ageing in the process of social and cultural change.” His main research interests are in social structure and social change and in political sociology. He specializes in comparative welfare state and social policy research and has published extensively on poverty, pensions, health and labour market issues and European social policy. E-mail: juergenkohl.soz@t-online.de; juergen.kohl@soziologie.uni-heidelberg.de

Mohsen Joshanloo holds a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (2013). He did his postdoctoral work at Chungbuk National University, South Korea, and is currently Assistant Professor at Keimyung University, South Korea. His main research interests are well-being, culture, values, world views, emotions, and motivation. He advocates culturally inclusive research into well-being and has recently published a number of conceptual and empirical articles on mental well-being in non-Western cultures. E-mail: mjoshanloo@hotmail.com

Takashi Inoguchi has a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo; former assistant secretary general of the United Nations; president of University of Niigata Prefecture; a prolific author and editor and coeditor of books and articles on political theory, comparative politics, and international relations. He recently published The Quality of Life in Asia: A Comparison of Quality of Life in Asia (Springer 2013). He has been Director of the AsiaBarometer project since 2002 and is the founding editor of three journals: Japanese Journal of Political Science (Cambridge University Press); International Relations of the Asia-Pacific (Oxford University Press); and Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (Sage Publications). In 2014, he was awarded the International Society of Quality-of-Life Studies, Distinguished Research Fellow for his substantial contributions to the field. E-mail: inoguchi@ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Harry R. Halloran, Jr. is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Refining Group. He is also the Chairman and CEO of ARG Resources. Mr. Halloran is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in civil engineering. After graduation, he entered the Augustinian seminary for four years and earned an MA in theology. Mr. Halloran is founder and CEO of Energy Unlimited, Inc., a company involved in the renewable-energy field, and has served on the board of the American Wind Energy Association. Other past positions include Trustee of Villanova University, College of Commerce and Finance and Trustee of The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA. He is also the Founding Trustee of the Enlightened World Foundation and the Halloran Foundation. He is a member of the Caux Round Table and serves on the board of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies. Mr. Halloran founded Halloran Philanthropies in 2007 with the belief that business is one of the most powerful drivers for positive social change. The purpose of Halloran Philanthropies is to help create a healthier world community that promotes economic development through microfinance, global business ethics, and community service to revitalize low-income neighborhoods.

Carol Graham is the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, College Park Professor at the University of Maryland, and has served as a vice president at Brookings. She is the author of, most recently, The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being (Brookings, also published in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese) and Happiness Around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires (Oxford, also published in Chinese and Portuguese) and has published in journals including the World Bank Research Observer, Health Affairs, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Health Economics. Her work on well-being has been reviewed in Science, The New Yorker, and the New York Times. In 2014, Graham was awarded the International Society of Quality-of-Life Studies Distinguished Research Fellow for substantial contribution to the field. She has Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University, a Master of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD from Oxford University. E-mail: cgraham@brookings.edu

Wolfgang Glatzer holds a diploma in sociology, social policy, and economics from Goethe University at Frankfurt and a PhD from the University of Mannheim. Most of his working life he spent as a professor of sociology in the department for Gesellschaftswissenschaften (Social Sciences) at Goethe University, Frankfurt. His lifetime research focuses on social structural and cultural change, quality of life and well-being, the welfare state, and household production. He has published several books, including Social Change and Societal Monitoring; Rich and Poor; Challenges for Quality of Life in the Contemporary World; Global Handbook of Quality of Life. He is the author or editor of several hundred scientific articles in 12 languages and of contributions to broadcasting and television. He held key positions in the Special Research Department, Microanalytical Foundations of Society. He is a founding member of the international research group, Comparative Charting of Social Change. He is past president of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies. He was invited to be a fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg. His recent research interests emphasize global well-being and quality of life. E-mail: wolfgang.glatzer@t-online.de

José de Jesús García Vega is CEO of Servicios Integrales Gama, a petrochemical firm in Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, Mexico. He was formerly Professor of Economics, Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico, where he lectured on business forecasting, microeconomics, managerial economics, and international economics. He was a visiting professor in Mexico and overseas. He was Director of the Center of Well-Being Studies, doing research on subjective well-being and quality of life in Mexico. He published a book on happiness and values in Monterrey and co-authored an article in the Handbook of the Economics of Happiness, among other publications. His most recent project involved measuring quality of life at the national and state levels. He contributed to The World Book of Happiness (http://www.theworldbookofhappiness.com/en) and served on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Applied Research in Quality of Life, the Social Indicators Research Journal, and the Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research. Jose has an MBA and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas in Tampico, Mexico and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Texas A &M University. E-mail: pepechuy13@gmail.com

Richard J. Estes is Professor Emeritus of Social Work and Social Policy in the School of Social Policy & Practice of the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in international and comparative social welfare, social policy, and social development. He has been the recipient of many awards and prizes for his contributions to comparative social development. In addition to the present volume, his books include The Social Progress of Nations, 1984; Trends in World Social Development, 1988; Health Care and the Social Services,1984; Towards a Social Development Strategy for the Asia and Pacific Region (with Edward Van Roy), 1992; Social Development in Hong Kong: The Unfinished Agenda, 2005; Medical, Legal, and Social Science Aspects of Child Sexual Exploitation, 2007; Advancing Quality of Life in a Turbulent World, 2007; Social Progress in Islamic Societies: Social, Political, Economic, and Ideological Challenges (with Habib Tiliouine, Dordrecht NL: Springer), in preparation; and Human Well-Being: The Untold Global History (with M. Joseph Sirgy, Dordrecht HL: Springer), in preparation, 2015. E-mail: restes@sp2.upenn.edu.

Elizabeth Eckermann, Professor of Medical Sociology at Deakin University (Australia), is a consultant for the World Health Organization and an editor of Health Promotion International. She was Vice-President: Development on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies and was made a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Society (2006). She was a member of the Australian delegation to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women; in 2007 she won the Zonta International Outstanding Achievement Award for commitment to the advancement of women’s health in Lao PDR. Her current field research focuses on quality-of-life indicators in Lao PDR and Sabah, Malaysia. Her research grants and publications cover quality-of-life indicators; gender and well-being; maternal health; gender-based violence; and health promotion including the book, Gender, Lifespan and Quality of Life: An International Perspective (2014); Living alone and living together: their significance for wellbeing, Global Handbook for Wellbeing and Quality of Life (2015); Elizabeth (Liz) Eckermann: A Pioneer in Gendered Understandings of Quality of Life, Applied Research in Quality of Life (2015); From health impact assessment to quality of life impact assessment, Health Promotion International (2013). E-mail: liz.eckermann@deakin.edu.au

Edilberto C. de Jesus holds a BA, Honors Course in the Humanities, from Ateneo de Manila University, and MPhil and PhD degrees in History, Yale University. He was president of Far Eastern University (1995–2002); University of the Cordilleras (2008–2009); and the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) (2009–2012), which he first joined in 1972 and where he is now Professor Emeritus. Initially seconded by AIM in 1987 to President Corazon Aquino’s administration, he served as Deputy Peace Commissioner (1987–92) and in her Cabinet as Presidential Adviser on Rural Development (1988–1992). He rejoined AIM as Associate Dean for Research and established its Policy Center (1992–95). He was president of the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities until appointed Secretary of Education (2002–2004). He served as president of the Council of Southeast Asia Ministers of Education Organization (2003) and as its Secretariat Director (Bangkok) (2005–2007). He is on the Advisory Committee of the Philippine Business for Education and the Asia-Europe Education Hub. He writes on public policy and political developments in the Philippines and the ASEAN region. E-mail: edcdejesus@gmail.com