Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
International Institute of Social Studies
Kortenaerkade 12
The Hague 2518 AX
Netherlands
ABOUT
Sylvia I. Bergh (a Swedish national) is Associate Professor in development management and governance at the ISS. She completed her D.Phil. thesis in Development Studies at the University of Oxford in 2008, focusing on decentralisation and local governance in Morocco. Previously, she worked at the World Bank, both in the President's Office in Washington D.C. and in the Morocco Country Office. Her academic background includes a strong focus on the Middle East/North Africa region; having gained a First Class degree in Arabic and International Relations from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland in 1999, she obtained an M.Phil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford in 2001. She has extensive consultancy experience, including for UNIFEM (evaluating the Gender Responsive Budgeting Program in Morocco) and Dutch NGOs (on democracy promotion in Morocco).
Sylvia is currently working on an NWO-ICSSR financed research project on 'Service with Accountability: Examining public service characteristics in differing political regimes'. She is in particular focusing on social accountability initiatives in the Middle East and North Africa region, including projects using the Community Score Card methodology in Morocco.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Development
Maghreb Studies
Public Policy
Mediterranean Studies
Democratization
Geographic Areas of Interest
Morocco
Maghreb
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Specialties
Local Governance
Decentralisation
Education
DPhil
| 2008
| International Development
| University of Oxford
MPhil
| 2001
| Modern Middle Eastern Studies
| University of Oxford
MA
| 1999
| Arabic and International Relations
| University of St. Andrews
Abstracts
The 2009 Municipal Elections in Morocco: Some Observations on the Interplay between Formal and Informal Institutions in a Rural Area
The National Human Development Initiative in Morocco: Some implications for local governance
Enhancing social accountability through community score cards? Evidence from the education sector in Morocco
The politics of democratic decentralization reforms: Insights from Morocco's Advanced Regionalization process
