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Dr. Randall Baker (1944-)
Distinguished Professor
New Bulgarian University
Career Highlights.
Academic
B.Sc (Honors) University of Wales, 1965
MA African Studies, University of East Africa, 1966 (subsumed in
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Ph.D)
PhD. University of London taken externally in East Africa, 1970
Certificat de la langue et la civilization française; Sorbonne, 1978
Co-founder, Reader and Dean (1975-1978) of the School of
Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana
University, Bloomington, USA (#2-ranked school in the USA)
Distinguished Professor: New Bulgarian University: 2008—
Dean of Academic Affairs; Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, 2011,
later Vice Rector for Academic Affairs (Provost)
Doctor Honoris Causa, Sofia, 1996
Doctor Honoris Causa, Baku, 2001
Senior Fulbright Scholar, Bulgaria, 1992 and 2001; Honorary
Citizen, Breze, Bulgaria
Distinguished Professor: Western University, Azerbaijan.
Exhibitioner of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London
Rockefeller Fellow, East Africa 1965-1967
Honorary Graduate and Visiting Professor, Moscow State
University, 1990
Distinguished Professional Service Award, NIDA, Bangkok, 2002
The John Ryan Award for International Contribution, Indiana, 2008
Honorary Member: Geo Milev International Foundation. Sofia. 2013
Founding Member, Selection Panel for Public Administration, Public Policy and International
Relations, Edmund S. Muskie Fellowship Program, Washington DC. External Examiner to the
Graduate School of the University of Cambridge; Chair, Senior Fulbright Scholar Selection
Committee, DC. Member, Board of Trustees, New Bulgarian University; Board of Trustees,
Balkanika School.
Professional Accomplishments
Designed, Co-Designed or founded: the Development Studies School at the
University of East Anglia, UK; the country’s first Public Administration MPA
degree program at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia; the MPA Program at the
Universidad Privada de Bolivia; the MPA program at the University of Sevilla,
Spain, and helped redesign the Environmental Program at Kazakhstan Institute
of Management (KIMEP), Almaty, Kazakhstan; the Environmental Studies
Program at the University of Khartoum, and the Development Studies Program at
the University of Lesotho. Developed the first undergraduate and graduate
degree programs in Public Administration and Legal Studies at Western
University, Baku, Azerbaijan; honorary visiting professor, Serbia; Scientific
Advisor to Man and Biosphere Program, UNESCO, Paris, 1977-78. Served as
Project Planning Advisor to the Government of Fiji (1981-4); Member of the Fiji
Cabinet Budget Committee; Advisor to H.H. the Prince of Mecca, and re-designer
of the Hajj Sacrifice Area in 1971-4; Advisor to Sultan of Brunei. Consultant to the
Asian Development Bank on Alternative and Renewable Energy, Azerbaijan
(2009). Consultant to the World Bank, Unesco, The British Foreign Ministry,
UNEP, the State Department…
Publications (books only)
Summer in the Balkans: Laughter and Tears after Communism, Kumarian
Press, USA, 1994.
King Hussein and the Kingdom of Hejaz. Cambridge, UK. 1979.
Transitions from Authoritarianism: The Role of the Civil Service. Praeger. 2002
Comparative Public Management. Praeger. USA. 1994.
Environmental Law and Policy in the US and the EU. Praeger. USA. 1997.
Public Administration in Small and Island States. Kumarian Press, USA. 1991.
Environmental Management in the Tropics. Times-Mirror Books. USA. 1993.
Energy: Science, Policy and the Pursuit of Sustainability. Island Press. 2002.
Adopting Eldar. (a personal, biographical work). Authorhouse. USA. 2005.
До София и назад (To Sofia and Back). A Tribute to Bulgarian writer Alecko
Konstantinov, and the story of building the country’s first Public Administration
Program; Marin Drinov, Academy of Sciences, Sofia (in Bulgarian). 2003.
Странни места, интересни хора. New Bulgarian University Press, May,
2006
Бъдещето не е това, което беше. (“The future isn’t what it used to be” in
English: A study of the nature and pace of the process of change.). Paradigma
Press, Sofia. 2007.
Кавказиана, Kavkaziana, (in Russian and English), Western University Press,
Baku, 2008.
Българиана(Bulgariana), Ciela, Sofia, 2009 (in Bulgarian).
“Bulgariana” (in English), Ciela, Sofia, 2010
“Why America isn’t Europe,” 2010, [in Bulgarian and English]. Paradigma,
Sofia. 2010.
“Environment: Science, Policy and Values.” Paradigma. Sofia [in English].
2010.
“Moresnet: The Curious Complexities of a Neutral Zone.” Paradigma. Sofia.
2010.
www.randallbaker.org
[email protected] Longer CV available on request