2011 Symposium - Optimising Māori Economic Development: Critical Success factors

Collaboration, Self-Determination, and Economic Development: Indigenous Nations in North America

Collaboration, Self-Determination, and Economic Development: Indigenous Nations in North America by Professor Stephen Cornell as part of the 2011 Critical and Sensitive Research Symposium, Optimising Māori Economic Development: Critical Success factors hosted by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga.

Stephen Cornell is Professor of Sociology and of Public Administration and Policy and Director of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona. His Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago. He taught at Harvard University for nine years and for nine more at the University of California, San Diego, before joining the Arizona faculty in 1998. In the late 1980s, Professor Cornell co-founded the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development (he continues to co-direct that project today) and in 2000-2001 led the development of the Native Nations Institute at the University of Arizona. He has spent most of the last 25 years working with Indigenous nations on governance, development, and related issues