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Jim Della-Giacoma

Jim Della-Giacoma is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific, School of International, Political, and Strategic Studies in the Department of Political and Social Change. He previously worked as the Asia Program and South East Asia Project Director of the International Crisis Group as well as an Associate Director at the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum at the Social Science Research Council in New York. He has been living in or working on Asia since 1991 as a student, journalist, researcher, UN official, and development specialist.

Articles by Jim Della-Giacoma (1)

  • Jim Della-Giacoma 14 May 2014 08:00

    Feeling the World Bank's pain: Policy advocacy and those PDFs

    The author, PDF at the ready, meeting  Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva in 2010  (Photo courtesy of the author). In October 2007, my organisation (the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum at the SSRC) paid for two British consultants to go to Dili to help the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) plan its security sector review. This was part of a project designed to help UN peacekeepers access ideas and people to produce better policy.