Faculty Advisory Council
The Faculty Advisory Council serves as the key mechanism for representing faculty in Buffett decisions and activities. Members serve as strategic thought partners for Buffett leadership and ambassadors for Buffett's strategic goals. They will leverage their expertise and existing global research relationships to help build Northwestern's global network and transform Northwestern into a more global institution. This group has a key role in making recommendations to the executive director concerning funding priorities, programs, policies and appointments at Buffett.
Members
Dr. Jennifer Chan is an Associate Professor and Director of Global Emergency Medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She is a hybrid researcher-practitioner with over 15 years of experience working with NGOs and UN agencies as a public health, crisis informatics, and humanitarian data specialist. She co-authored Disaster 2.0, a report describing the challenges of information sharing and technology in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and built the Crisis Informatics program at NetHope during the West Africa Ebola Response. Her transdisciplinary research in the information and computer sciences, engineering, and epidemiology, focus on the translation of scientific methods into practice. She collaborates with research teams and practitioners to help strengthen the theoretical and methodological assumptions of how scientific applications translate into practice with a focus on operational impact and ultimately decision-making. She previously advised NetHope, the United Nations Centre for Humanitarian Data, and acted as an external advisor to the International Federation of the Red Cross 2018 World Disaster Report. She continues to advise global health and humanitarian organizations.
Paul Gowder is a Professor of Law whose research focuses on the rule of law, democratic theory, social and racial equality, institutional and organizational governance, and the law of technology, as well as the technology of law. He has taught a variety of classes including constitutional law, torts, critical race theory, professional responsibility, and introductory programming and statistics for law students. In his practice days, he was a civil rights and legal aid lawyer. In those contexts, he represented victims of police misconduct (once winning a rare qualified immunity reversal from the Fourth Circuit), predatory lending, employment discrimination, unlawful eviction, domestic violence, and numerous other injustices.
Angela Y. Lee joined the marketing faculty at the Kellogg School in 1995 and was named Mechthild Esser Nemmers Professor of Marketing in 2007. Dr. Lee is a consumer psychologist. Her expertise is in consumer learning, goals and emotions. Her research focuses on consumer motivation and affect, cross-cultural consumer psychology, and nonconscious influences of memory on judgment and choice. Her publications appear in both marketing and psychology journals and she is the co-editor of Kellogg on China (Northwestern University Press, 2004).
Candy Lee is a Professor at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, at Northwestern University, Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, where she teaches marketing, innovation, leadership, content strategy, and sports marketing. She also teaches in the masters of new product development management program at Segal.
Professor Lee also had a long career in publishing, media and education, as Publisher of Harlequin Enterprises, an international publisher in 100 countries, and as President of Troll Communications, a leader in K-12 education. She has worked in publishing and retail in many countries. Immediately prior to Medill, Candy was Vice President at the Washington Post Media Group and served in a masthead position at The Washington Post. She has also served as President of United Loyalty Services, and managing director of Iformation Group, formed by Goldman Sachs, Boston Consulting Group and General Atlantic Partners to consult on and invest in technologies and consumer-based industries.
Ofer Malamud is an associate professor of human development and social policy, who focuses on education policy from an international perspective. His research is concentrated in three substantive areas: educational investments over the life course, the role of technology in the formation of human capital, and the effect of general and specific education on labor market outcomes. He has studied these topics in a wide range of institutional settings across countries such as Chile, England, Israel, Mexico, Peru, Romania, Scotland, and the United States. Malamud is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the CESifo Research Network. He also serves as a research consultant for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Before joining Northwestern, he was on the faculty of the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Anto Mohsin is assistant professor in residence in the Liberal Arts Program at Northwestern University in Qatar. He’s also an affiliated faculty member of Northwestern University’s Science in Human Culture Program in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. He teaches introductory and upper level courses in Science and Technology Studies (STS), an interdisciplinary field examining science and technology critically in their broader sociopolitical contexts. Mohsin received his PhD in STS from Cornell University.
Petia M. Vlahovska received a PhD in chemical engineering from Yale (2003) and MS in chemistry from Sofia University, Bulgaria (1994). She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Membrane Biophysics Lab at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Germany) and spent ten years on the faculty at Dartmouth College and Brown University, before joining the faculty at Northwestern University in 2017. Her research is in fluid dynamics, membrane biophysics, and soft matter. Prof. Vlahovska is the recipient of David Crighton Fellowship (2005), NSF Career Award (2009) and a Humboldt Fellowship (2016). In 2019, she was elected fellow of the American Physical Society.
Ivy Wilson (Ph.D. Yale University) teaches courses on the comparative literatures of the black diaspora and U.S. literary studies with a particular emphasis on African American culture. His book, Specters of Democracy: Blackness and the Aesthetics of Nationalism (Oxford UP), interrogates how the figurations and tropes of blackness were used to produce the social equations that regulated the cultural meanings of U.S. citizenship and traces how African American intellectuals manipulated the field of aesthetics as a means to enter into political discourse about the forms of subjectivity and national belonging. Along with articles in ESQ, Arizona Quarterly, and PMLA, his other work in U.S. literary studies includes edited volumes on James Monroe Whitfield, Albery Allson Whitman, Walt Whitman, and on the emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the “long” nineteenth century. His current research interests focus on the solubility of nationalism in relationship to theories of the diaspora, global economies of culture, and circuits of the super-national and sub-national.