Dan Banik
{{Short description|Norwegian political scientist}}
{{Primary sources|date=November 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Dan Banik
| occupation = Professor
| employer = University of Oslo
| website = {{URL|https://www.sum.uio.no/personer/vit/danbanik/}}
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Dan Banik is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Oslo SDG Initiative at the Center for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo. Outside of Norway he holds a position as an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria.{{Cite web |title=Center for Development and the Environment |url=https://www.sum.uio.no/personer/vit/danbanik/index.html |access-date=2023-11-23 |website=Center for Development and the Environment}}
Career
Banik is a part of several projects at the University of Oslo and in collaboration with other universities outside of Norway. Mostly the projects revolve around development and governance in Africa and Asia.{{Cite web |title=India's Footprint in Africa: South-South Cooperation and the Politics of Gifts and Reciprocity (INDAF) |url=https://www.sum.uio.no/english/research/projects/indaf/index.html |access-date=2023-11-23 |website=Center for Development and the Environment}} Recently, in October 2023, as the Director of the Oslo SDG Initiative he hosted the 27th Wider Annual Lecture, in partnership with UNU-WIDER, in Oslo, where Pinelopi Goldberg, former Chief Economist of the World Bank, held a lecture.{{Cite web |title=UNU WIDER : Globalization in crisis – confronting a new economic reality |url=http://www.wider.unu.edu/event/globalization-crisis-confronting-new-economic-reality |access-date=2023-11-24 |website=www.wider.unu.edu |language=en}}
From 2012 to 2017 he was an adjunct professor at China Agricultural University in Beijing and he held several positions at Stanford University between 2010 and 2017. Between 2014 and 2017, Banik was a Consulting Scholar at Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at the Stanford University, focusing his research on Malawi and Zambia.
Banik has worked with the World Bank as well where he served as the head of the Norwegian-Finnish Trust Fund. Additionally, he sat on the board of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess' Foundation, a foundation that focuses on the support and empowerment of young individuals in Norway.{{Cite web |title=The Crown Prince and Crown Princess' Foundation |url=http://www.royalcourt.no/artikkel.html?tid=28789&sek=113293 |access-date=2023-11-23 |website=www.royalcourt.no |language=en}}
The Norwegian Minister of International Development, Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, appointed Banik to be a part of an expert group that created a report, in 2023, for the Norwegian government concerning finance and development measures to reach the Sustainable Development Goals.{{Cite web |last=Utenriksdepartementet |date=2023-05-15 |title=Ekspertgruppe med anbefalinger for norsk utviklingspolitikk |url=https://www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/ekspertgruppe-med-anbefalinger-for-norsk-utviklingspolitikk/id2977340/ |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=Regjeringen.no |language=nb-NO}}{{Cite web |date=2023-06-28 |title=Flere statsråder har bedt om habilitetsråd |url=https://www.tv2.no/nyheter/innenriks/flere-statsrader-har-bedt-om-habilitetsrad/15855227/ |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=TV 2 |language=nb-NO}} Banik was also, previously, the supervisor for the Minister when she wrote her master's thesis.
In Pursuit of Development is a podcast hosted by Banik where he discusses development issues and topics such as poverty eradication, democracy and climate change with other leading experts and academics.{{Cite web |last=Banik |first=Dan |date=2023-11-22 |title=In Pursuit of Development {{!}} Dan Banik {{!}} Substack |url=https://globaldevpod.substack.com/ |access-date=2023-11-23 |website=globaldevpod.substack.com |language=en}} The professor is often referred to as an expert on the topics himself, and is regularly interviewed to give expert opinion in Norwegian media.{{Cite web |date=2017-07-16 |title=Han er et offer i den verste krisen i FNs historie. Grepene som må tas for å redde liv, er både enkle og svært kompliserte. |url=https://www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/AAWRq/han-er-et-offer-i-den-verste-krisen-i-fns-historie-grepene-som-maa-tas-for-aa-redde-liv-er-baade-enkle-og-svaert-kompliserte |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=www.aftenposten.no |language=nb}}{{Cite web |date=2021-02-20 |title=Dramatisk fall av smitte i India |url=https://www.vg.no/i/JJBqaX |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=www.vg.no |language=nb}} Banik's podcast reaches a world-wide audience with listeners from more than 140 countries.{{Cite web |date=2017-11-11 |title=Dan Banik |url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/dan-banik-422434 |access-date=2023-11-24 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}} During the COVID-19 pandemic, Banik created online courses about sustainability that were published through University of Oslo's website which attracted more than 12,000 students from all over the world.{{Cite web |last=Løkeland-Stai |first=Espen |date=2020-04-18 |title=Da han ble satt i karantene vervet professoren familien til produksjon av nettkurs |url=https://www.khrono.no/da-han-ble-satt-i-karantene-vervet-professoren-familien-til-produksjon-av-nettkurs/476481 |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=www.khrono.no |language=nb-NO}}
Selected publications
= Books =
- {{Cite book |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781315683898/political-transition-inclusive-development-malawi-dan-banik-blessings-chinsinga |title=Political Transition and Inclusive Development in Malawi: The democratic dividend |date=2016-06-22 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-315-68389-8 |editor-last=Chinsinga |editor-first=Blessings |editor2=Dan Banik |location=London |doi=10.4324/9781315683898}}
- {{Cite book |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781315238739/legal-empowerment-agenda-dan-banik |title=The Legal Empowerment Agenda: Poverty, Labour and the Informal Economy in Africa |date=2016-11-15 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-315-23873-9 |editor-last=Banik |editor-first=Dan |location=London |doi=10.4324/9781315238739}}
- {{Cite book |last=Banik |first=Dan |url=https://www.sum.uio.no/english/sdg/research/publications/Dan%20Banik%20Poverty%20and%20Elusive%20Development |title=Poverty and elusive development |date=2010 |publisher=Universitetsforl |isbn=978-82-15-01218-6 |location=Oslo}}
- {{Cite book |last1=McNeish |first1=John-Andrew |title=Rights and legal empowerment in eradicating poverty |last2=Robbins |first2=Edward |last3=Nielsen |first3=Kenneth |last4=Brøther |first4=Mona Elisabeth |date=2008 |publisher=Ashgate |isbn=978-0-7546-7498-6 |editor-last=Banik |editor-first=Dan |location=Farnham}}
- {{Cite book |last=Banik |first=Dan |title=Starvation and India's democracy |date=2007 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-203-96288-6 |edition=1. publ |series=Routledge advances in South Asian studies |location=London}}
- {{Cite book |last=Banik |first=Dan |title=Poverty, politics and development: interdisciplinary perspectives |date=2006 |publisher=Fagbokforlaget |isbn=978-82-450-0397-0 |edition=1. Aufl |location=Bergen}}
= Journal articles =
- {{Cite journal |last1=Biermann |first1=Frank |last2=Sun |first2=Yixian |last3=Banik |first3=Dan |last4=Beisheim |first4=Marianne |last5=Bloomfield |first5=Michael J. |last6=Charles |first6=Aurelie |last7=Chasek |first7=Pamela |last8=Hickmann |first8=Thomas |last9=Pradhan |first9=Prajal |last10=Sénit |first10=Carole-Anne |date=2023-09-15 |title=Four governance reforms to strengthen the SDGs |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj5434 |journal=Science |language=en |volume=381 |issue=6663 |pages=1159–1160 |doi=10.1126/science.adj5434 |pmid=37708286 |bibcode=2023Sci...381.1159B |s2cid=261736542 |issn=0036-8075}}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Banik |first1=Dan |last2=Mawdsley |first2=Emma |date=May 2023 |title=South–South Cooperation and global development in a multipolar world: China and India in Africa |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jid.3789 |journal=Journal of International Development |language=en |volume=35 |issue=4 |pages=539–548 |doi=10.1002/jid.3789 |s2cid=258545369 |issn=0954-1748|url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Banik |first=Dan |date=July 2022 |title=Democracy and Sustainable Development |journal=Anthropocene Science |language=en |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=233–245 |doi=10.1007/s44177-022-00019-z |issn=2731-3980 |pmc=9051790}}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Kayuni |first1=Happy |last2=Banik |first2=Dan |last3=Chunga |first3=Joseph J. |date=2021-11-11 |title=The perils of megaphone diplomacy on Malawi's ambitious Shire- Zambezi Waterway project |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/bafr/13/2/article-p270_9.xml |journal=Africa Review |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=270–289 |doi=10.1080/09744053.2021.1943265 |s2cid=235769638 |issn=0974-4053|url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Banik |first1=Dan |last2=Chasukwa |first2=Michael |date=December 2019 |title=The Politics of Hunger in an SDG Era: Food Policy in Malawi |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s41055-019-00055-3 |journal=Food Ethics |language=en |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=189–206 |doi=10.1007/s41055-019-00055-3 |s2cid=213049151 |issn=2364-6853|doi-access=free |url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Banik |first1=Dan |last2=Bull |first2=Benedicte |date=2018-07-04 |title=Chinese engagement in Africa and Latin America: does it matter for state capacity? |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23802014.2018.1531682 |journal=Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal |language=en |volume=3 |issue=4 |pages=532–551 |doi=10.1080/23802014.2018.1531682 |hdl=10852/72575 |s2cid=158115920 |issn=2380-2014|hdl-access=free }}
Personal life
Banik is married to Vibeke Kieding Banik, who also works at the University of Oslo.{{Cite web |publisher=Stanford University |title=Dan Banik |url=http://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/people/dan_banik |access-date=2023-11-23 |website=cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu |language=en}}
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