Annual Report 2001

6 Administration

6.1 Personnel

The following is the staffing situation in 2001:

Prof. Zhou Chaochen, Director
Mr. Chris George, Senior Research Fellow
Prof. He Jifeng, Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Dang Van Hung, Research Fellow
Dr. Tomasz Janowski, Research Fellow
Dr. Richard Moore, Research Fellow until February 2001
Mr. Murray Singer, Administrative and Programme Services Officer until 14 July 2001
Ms. (Wendy) Hoi Iok Wa, Senior Administrative Assistant and Acting Administrative and Programme Services Officer since 15 July 2001
Mr. Tian Siyuan, Computing Systems Assistant
Ms. (Anna) Chiu Chi On, Administrative Assistant
Ms. (Michelle) Ho Sut Meng, Finance Assistant
Ms. (Alice) Pun Chong Iu, Programme Assistant
Ms. (Coffee) Ieong Soi Cheng das Dores, Library Clerk
Ms. Lei Sao Chi, Messenger

The following were Visiting Researchers at UNU/IIST during 2001:

Mr. Edmonds Lau        15 - 19 January          2001   Australia
Mr. Rajesh Vasa        15 - 19 January          2001   Australia
Dr. Zhiming Liu        07 February - 07 August  2001   UK
Ms. M. Erdenechimeg    01 March - 01 May        2001   Mongolia
Dr. Chen Yifeng        30 March - 15 April      2001   UK
Prof. Jim Woodcock     01 - 30 April            2001   UK
Prof. Dines Bjorner    16 - 20 April            2001   Denmark
Prof. Dong Jinsong     05 - 12 May              2001   Singapore
Dr. Augusto Sampaio    28 May - 20 June         2001   Brazil
Prof. Jay Bagga        06 - 14 August           2001   USA
Prof. Kees Middelburg  02 - 29 September        2001   Netherlands
Prof. Lin Huimin       20 November - 3 December 2001   China
Mr. Erfan Ulhaq        02 - 14 December         2001   Pakistan
Prof. R. Sadananda     10 - 14 December         2001   Thailand

Two posts were vacant since two Research Fellows left UNU/IIST in August 2000 and February 2001 respectively. After two rounds of recruitment effort, the vacancies will be filled in March and July 2002.

To relieve the shortage of human resource, the UNU/IIST ex-staff, Dr. Xu Qiwen, has been employed under SSA for six months since 1 September 2001 as a part-time Research Fellow.

6.2.2 Administrative & Programme Services Officer

UNU/IIST has been recruiting its Administrative and Programme Services Officer (APSO). The deadline for application is 1 March 2002. Ms. Wendy Hoi has functioned as the Acting APSO since 15 July 2001.

6.3 Biennium Budget Implementation

By the end of December 2001 the total expenditures were estimated at 90% of the total biennium budget.

6.4 Project Administration

Since July 2001, UNU/IIST has taken effort to further improve its administration of project activities.

In order to spare our limited resource for more activities, we re-emphasised cost-effective measures, and the UNU/IIST budget control policy.
Based on the UNU/IIST experience a guideline for project administration was formulated and distributed. The guideline encouraged active and timely assistance from UNU/IIST administrative staff in organising and managing the UNU/IIST project activities.

info@iist.unu.edu, February 2002