ZEF student wins Global Development Medal for Outstanding Research on Development

ZEF is proud to announce that Bhagirath Behera, ZEFb doctoral student and DAAD scholar from India, has won the prestigious 2006 Global Development Medal for Outstanding Research on Development last week in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Global Development Awards Competition is the world’s largest international development research competition. It was a challenging, records breaking competition this year, as nearly 700 submissions from about 100 countries were received. Bhagirath Behera received the second prize of USD 4,000 in the category "Institutions and Poverty Reduction" for his doctoral thesis entitled "Determinants of Sustainable Management of Natural Resources: The Case of Joint Forest Management in India".

With two winners already, Bhagirath Behera in 2006 and Adama Konseiga in 2005, and three nominations during the last years, ZEF has become one of the most successful development institutions in this annual competition awarded by the Global Development Learning Network at the World Bank.

We congratulate Bhagirath Behera!