Helmut K. Anheier, PhD, is President and Dean at the Hertie School of Governance, and holds a chair of sociology at Heidelberg University. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1986, was a senior researcher at John Hopkins School of Public Policy, Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare at UCLA′s Luskin School of Public Affairs, and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. Professor Anheier founded and directed the Centre for Civil Society at LSE, the Center for Civil Society at UCLA, and the Center for Social Investment at Heidelberg. Before embarking on an academic career, he served as social affairs officer to the United Nations. He is author of over 400 publications, and won various international prizes and recognitions for his scholarship. Amongst his recent book publications are Nonprofit Organizations - Theory, Management, Policy (London: Routledge, 2014), A Versatile American Institution: The Changing Ideals and Realities of Philanthropic Foundations with David Hammack (Washington, DC: Brookings, 2013) and The Global Studies Encyclopedia with Mark Juergensmeyer (5 vols, Sage, 2012).  He is the principal academic lead of the Hertie School´s annual Governance Report (Oxford University Press, 2013-), and currently working on projects relating to indicator research, social innovation, and success and failure in philanthropy.

• Introduction - Mary Kaldor, Ashwani Kumar & Hakan Seckinelgin1. Poverty Discourses and Global Civil Society - Harsh Mander, Virginia Xaxa, Lakshmi Lingam & Amita Bhide2. Global Poverty Statistics and Civil Society - Sally Stares3. Bringing Justice and Culture Back in: Global Action for Local Livelihoods - Smitu Kothari4. Global Organisation in Civil Society: the Effects On Poverty - Jan Aart Scholte & Jill Timms5. Global Civil Society and Budget Participation - Celine Tan6. Faith-Based Action in Development and Humanitarian Work - Khaled Mansour and Heba Raouf Ezzat7. Living in the Shadows: Injustice, Racism and Poverty in the India Diaspora - Vinay Lal8. Economic Migrants, the Banana Supply Chain, and the London Living Wage: Three Cases of Global Civil Society Activism on Poverty - Laurie Berg & Anna Samson, Pamela K Robinson, & Jane Wills9. Viewing Restricted: [Re]Presenting Poverty - Jessica Dimmock, Mishka Henner, Sharron Lovell, Subhash Sharma & Ali Taptik10. Global Civil Society Forums and Poverty - Jan Aart Scholte, Renate Bloem, Richard Samans, Kumi Naidoo, Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo, Virginia Vargas, Barry Aminata Toure & Chandan SenguptaConclusion - Marlies Glasius & Jan Aart ScholteIntroducing Futures Research: Forecasting and Scenarios - Helmut Anheier & Hagai KatzData ProgrammeChronology

I am still planning the course, but it likely that I shall list the book as a recommended additional reading. Our library has ordered a copy of book. It may well be that I put a chapter on the essential reading list (i.e. related to a seminar topic for a particular week), but this is TBC.