Method Trustees

Srilatha Batliwala

Srilatha Batliwala is an Indian feminist activist and researcher. She is currently Civil Society Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations in Harvard University.  Prior to this, Batliwala was a Program Officer in the Governance and Civil Society Unit of the Ford Foundation in New York, handling programs related to strengthening international civil society and the nonprofit sector in the United States.

Her work experience includes the co-founding of SPARC (1984-88), a Mumbai-based NGO that organized and mobilized pavement and slum dwellers – particularly women – to struggle for sustainable, people-centered solutions to their housing and survival needs in the urban context.  She was also founder and state program director of Mahila Samkhya Karnataka (1989-93), a Government of India special project for women’s empowerment, was South Asia Coordinator of DAWN (1993-96), the network of Southern feminist researchers and activists, and set and headed the Women’s Policy Research and Advocacy Unit (1994-97) at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.
 
Dr. Anabel Cruz

Dr. Anabel Cruz is the Founder-Director of ICD (Communication and Development Institute), a research centre and NGO support organization in Uruguay. Dr. Cruz has a long history in working to strengthen citizen participation in Uruguay and around the world. She has conducted extensive research into the role of civil society, particularly non-governmental organizations (NGO), in building democracy and citizenship and their participation in development processes in the Latin American post-dictatorship era.

She is a member of ISTR (International Society for Third Sector Research), founder of the National Association of NGOs in Uruguay and of the International Foundation El Taller ,and currently member of the Board of Partnership for Transparency Fund and of the Chair of the Board of of CIVICUS (World Alliance for Citizen Participation).

Professor Jacinto C. Gavino, Jr.

Professor Jacinto C. Gavino Jr. is the Fr. James F. Donelan, SJ Professor of Business Ethics. He is on the core faculty of the W.Sycip Graduate School of Business (WSGSB) Master in Management Program and formerly served as its Associate Dean. He was also the former Associate Dean for Research. His major areas of interest in management are corporate strategy and marketing, family corporations and business ethics, and public administration.

Currently a director of several business firms and non-governmental organizations, Prof. Gavino was involved in telecommunications and held directorships in firms engaged in agri-business, telecom engineering, and the manufacturing and trading of industrial supplies for the domestic and foreign markets.

Prof. Gavino holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Philippines (1971), a Master in Business Administration from the Ateneo de Manila University (1984) and a Doctorate in Public Administration from the University of the Philippines (1993).

Catherine A. Odora-Hoppers

Catherine A. Odera-Hoppers was educated in Uganda, Zambia and Sweden. She has served in the interagency commission on Education For All; is an expert for UNESCO (Paris), and advisor to the UNESCO Institute for Education (Hamburg). In the area of peace, she is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Global Campaign for a Culture of Peace of the Hague Appeal for Peace (New York) and has been involved in numerous other international level peace bodies.

In the area of gender, she has been a continental expert under the auspices of the OAU and provided support to African Ministers of Education and Gender. She has been a senior consultant to the World Bank under the Tanzania Human Resources Development Strategy, is a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Forum for African Women Educationists (FAWE).

She has extensive experience of the education sector in South Africa and is also an expert for the World Intellectual Property Organization in the area of traditional knowledge and community intellectual property rights, and has been a resource person to the World Economic Forum, the Organization of African Unity, and to several ministries and organizations in South Africa.

Dr Mark Orkin

Dr Mark Orkin was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) from 2000-2006. Before that he was the Head of Statistics SA, the South African Government statistics agency, for five years. He is currently a member of the SA Certification Council, the Committee of SADC Statisticians and the Council for African Statistical Development of the UN Economic Commission for Africa.

Dr Orkin holds a PhD in sociology from the University of the Witwatersrand, obtained in 1990.Additionally an Honours in physics at Wits (1971), a first class Honours in politics, philosophy and economics as a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford (1974) and an MA in sociology at the University of Sussex (1975).

On returning to South Africa and Wits, Dr Orkin was a lecturer in philosophy and then senior lecturer in sociology for ten years. After a year as the Deputy Director of the SA Institute of Race Relations, he set up an NGO social research agency called CASE, the Community Agency for Social Enquiry in 1985 and directed it for ten years.

Jamey Power

Jamey Power is the Managing Director of Power Family Enterprises and former Senior Vice President and Strategic Advisor at J.D. Power and Associates, a leading global company in customer satisfaction. He is also beginning work on a follow up to SATISFACTION: How Every Great Company Listens to the Voice of the Customer, a best-selling book he co-authored in 2006.

As the son of J. David Power III, founder of J.D. Power and Associates, Mr. Power literally grew up with the business. He, like the other children in the Power family, worked at the company in a variety of jobs throughout their early school years and into college. He joined the company as a professional employee in 1990. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager-International Operations. During this period, the international business grew to represent about 20% of the company’s overall business, and offices established throughout Asia, Europe and Canada conduct studies in many countries throughout the world. For a period of time when it was a wholly owned subsidiary of J.D. Power and Associates, Mr. Power served as Chairman of J.D. Power Asia Pacific.