Steven Gruzd
Steven Gruzd
Head of the Governance and APRM Programme
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Areas of Research Expertise:
- The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) and governance
- African politics and development
- Conflict and peace studies
Background:
Steven Gruzd became the Head of SAIIA's Governance and APRM Programme on 1 May 2008. Before that, he was the Deputy Head from October 2006, and the Research Manager on SAIIA's Nepad and Governance Programme from April 2003. He worked as a researcher and then research co-ordinator at the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) from 1999-2003. He holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in International Relations and an Honours and BA Degree from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Language:
Fluent English, good Afrikaans, beginner's French and Hebrew.
Recent publications:
Herbert R & S Gruzd, Le Mécanisme africain d’évaluation par les pairs : Leçons des Pionniers, SAIIA, November 2009.
Gruzd S, Le Mécanisme africain d’évaluation par les pairs : Evaluer les origines, les relations institutionnelles et les réalisations, SAIIA Occasional Paper Number 29, April 2009 [French]
Gruzd S,The African Peer Review Mechanism: Assessing Origins, Institutional Relations and Achievements, SAIIA Occasional Paper Number 29, April 2009.
Gruzd S, Africa's evolving governance architecture: Reflections on the African Peer Review Mechanism, Centre for Policy Studies Policy Brief Number 54, January 2009.
Gruzd S, Instiutionalising Governance Evidence: Experiences of Think Tanks in the African Peer Review Mechanism, final draft for the UNDP Oslo Governance Centre's conference 'Evidence into policy: The role of think tanks and research institutes', Cairo, Egypt, 18-19 January 2009.
Herbert R & S Gruzd, The African Peer Review Mechanism: Lessons from the Pioneers, SAIIA, March 2008.
Herbert R & S Gruzd, 'Taking Stock of the African Peer Review Mechanism', South African Journal of International Affairs, Volume 14, Number 1, Summer/Autumn 2007.
Gruzd S, 'Peace, security and the African Peer Review Mechanism: Are the tools up to the task?' African Security Review, Volume 16, Number 3, Institute for Security Studies, September 2007.
Herbert R & S Gruzd, Planning an Effective Peer Review: A Guidebook for National Focal Points, SAIIA, February 2007.
Gruzd S, Parliament, Oversight and the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM): Experiences from South Africa, paper for the Association of Public Accounts Committees (APAC) Conference, Bloemfontein, 9 October 2006.
Gruzd S, Africa's Trailblazer: Ghana and the APRM, Service Delivery Review, Vol 4 No 3, 2006, A Learning Journal for Public Service Managers
Govender P & S Gruzd (eds), Back to the Blackboard: Looking Beyond Universal Primary Education in Africa, SAIIA, 2005.
Draper P & S Gruzd (eds), 'Africa After Cancun: Trade Negotiations in Uncertain Times', SAIIA Trade Policy Report, Number 2, November 2003.
