Roster of Experts

Dr. Madiodio Niasse, Chairperson

Dr. Madiodio Niasse is Independent Consultant based in Dakar, Senegal. His post-doctoral work experience includes: (a) four years (1988-1992) of research activity on the impacts of dams in the Senegal River Basin; (b) seven years (1992-1998) with USAID in Dakar (Senegal) and in Abidjan (Cote d'Ivoire) as Social Sciences Advisor; (c) two years (1998-2000) as Senior Advisor with the World Commission on Dams (Cape Town, South Africa); (d) four years (2001-2005) as Regional Coordinator of Wetlands and Water Resources Programmes with IUCN-West Africa Office based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Since April 2005, Dr. Niasse is chairman of GWP/West Africa Global Water Partnership (GWP/WAWP).

Dr. Niasse have direct short- and long-term work experience in more than 10 African countries, including Benin, Burkina, Guinea, Ghana, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
He has published extensively on various subjects related to the environmental, socio-economic and institutional aspects, with special emphasis on issues such as wetlands and river basin/water resources management; climate change; land tenure; farming systems; conflict management.
Mr. Niasse holds a Doctorate in Environmental Sciences and a Master’s degree in Geography, both from the University of Dakar, Senegal. He is fluent in French and English.

Dr. Maartje van Putten, Member

Dr. Maartje van Putten, a Dutch citizen, is a former member of the World Bank Inspection Panel (1999-2004), a former member of the European Parliament (1989-1999) and was a journalist and social worker. Access of people to the decision process and accountability of the ruling powers has always been the subject of her career.

In the nineteen seventies Van Putten was the founder of a Dutch Non Governmental Organization focusing on living conditions of children living in cities and suburbs with fast changing circumstances resulting from city planning and expanding traffic in cities and wrote about social and environmental subjects related to town and country planning. In the nineteen eighties she finished a study as social worker at the Social Academy in Amsterdam followed by a three year study (professional master degree) on management in community work. Then she became a staff member of the Evert Vermeer Foundation, an institution that focuses on international solidarity, and was one of the first that studied and published a book on the phenomena Globalization. Van Putten wrote many articles and produced radio programs on subjects like; poverty trends, woman in Africa, the feminization of the economy, North-South relations, the informal sector, child labor, grass-roots organizations, globalization of the labor market and new technology such as industries sub-contracting work to home workers or the effects of new technology on the service sector. She directed a TV documentary on globalization: 'The Future has begun': made in the US, the Philippines, Mexico and The Netherlands.

As a member of the European Parliament (EP) Van Putten was Rapporteur of Parliament on various crucial (legislative) reports such as: the effects of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) on developing countries, legal basis for the EU budget line for development aid to Asia and Latin America, the budget line for tropical forest, the EU policy on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, the EU chocolate directive (position cocoa farmers) or the budget line for integration of environment into development. She was active on subjects as EU tender procedures, evaluation and inspection methods, was observer for the EP during the EU-ACP negotiations for the Lomé IV Convention and took the initiative for an EU-ACP peace mission to the island Bougainville (mining project).

During her appointment as member of the WB Inspection Panel, she was involved in investigations in World Bank projects in Argentina, Paraguay, Kenya, Brazil, Ecuador, China, Uganda, Papua New Guinea, India, Mexico, Chad and Cameroon. She begun to write her PhD thesis ‘Policing the World: Accountability Mechanisms for Multilateral Financial Institutions and Private Financial Institutions’ and got her Doctorate in 2006 (Tilburg University Netherlands in cooperation with McGill University Canada).

At present she is the vice-chair of the European Center for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), a member of the supervisory board of the Royal Tropical Institute and as Managing Director of Global Accountability (consultancy) an advisor on Accountability Mechanisms for private financial institutions.

Prof. Daniel D. Bradlow, Member

Prof. Daniel D. Bradlow is an expert in international financial law and development finance, with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, to being a member of the Roster of Experts for the Independent Review Mechanism at the African Development Bank, he is Professor of Law and Director of the International Legal Studies Program at American University Washington College of Law, a Research Associate of the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, and serves on the Boards of Directors of International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty (ILEAP) and the African Law Institute. He has worked as a Senior Special Fellow in the Legal Aspects of Debt and Financial Management Programme of the United National Institute on Training and Research (UNITAR), and as a consultant to a number of organizations including the World Dams Commission, MEFMI (The Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute for Eastern and Southern Africa), Pole-Dette, the World Bank, UNESCO, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development and the MacArthur Foundation. He served as a member of the International Law Association’s Committee on Accountability of International Organizations and is the Co-Rapporteur of the International Law Association’s study group on the same topic. He has lectured in the United States and many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America on both the public and private aspects of international economic and financial law and on the negotiating and structuring of international economic transactions.

His publications include books and articles on international financial law, the international financial institutions, foreign investment, the World Bank Inspection Panel, regulatory frameworks for water, dams and dam safety, globalization and its implications for global economic governance and the changing responsibilities of the World Bank and the IMF in the management of the global economy. Professor Bradlow holds degrees from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, and Northeastern University and Georgetown University in the USA and is a member of the New York and District of Columbia Bars.