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Tim Hanstad, J.D., LL.M.
Rural Development Institute
1411 Fourth Avenue Suite 910
Seattle, Washington USA 98101
(206) 528-5880 / Fax (206) 528-5881
timh@rdiland.org
KEY QUALIFICATIONS
For the past twenty
years, Tim Hanstad, RDI President & CEO has led RDI’s institutional
growth. Tim also has more than 20 years of experience in project management,
research, consulting, policy advocacy, training and writing on issues
of expanding land access, improving land tenure security, and developing
land markets for poverty alleviation and economic growth in developing
countries.
Tim has worked in 15 countries in Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Latin America, including four years living in India. His project experience includes work with numerous international donor agencies and foundations such as the World Bank, United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations HABITAT, United States Agency for International Development, DFID, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Omidyar Network, and The John T. Templeton Foundation.
Tim also teaches at the University of Washington School of Law, where he has co-directed a graduate program in Law of Sustainable International Development.
EDUCATION
LL.M., University of Washington School of Law, 1994, with Honors. Coursework in land law, international development law and development economics.
J.D., University of Washington School of Law, 1988, with Honors. Board of Editors, Washington Law Review. American Jurisprudence Award for Excellence in Torts.
B.A., Seattle Pacific University, 1985, magna cum laude. Majors in Political Science and History. Varsity Tennis, Captain. 1985 Male Athlete of the Year.
GEOGRAPHIC EXPERIENCE
Albania, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, India (including four years in residence), Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Mongolia, the Philippines, Russia, Slovakia, Vietnam
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
President, 1986 - present, Rural Development Institute, Seattle, Washington. (Staff Attorney 1988-89, Deputy Director 1989-1992, Executive Director 1992-February 2005, President since March 1, 2005). Legal and social science research, writing, project assistance, and policy advocacy on various issues of law and international development, including rural land tenure reform, land titling and registration, land access for the poor, land use planning, land privatization, land markets, rural finance, and related issues of rural development. As a senior legal consultant and manager, Mr. Hanstad has participated in the following representative and recent assignments:
- Andhra Pradesh (India) Rural Poverty Reduction
Project and Madhya Pradesh District Poverty Initiatives Project,
World Bank, FAO, and Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty, India.
Serving as Land Policy Specialist in leading design of project component
aimed at increasing the rural poor’s access to land. Includes land
legislation review and analysis, field survey of land market issues,
and coordination with project counterpart in developing operating guidelines
for market-assisted land reform process. (October 2002-present)
- Women’s Ownership of Land in Rural India, Centre
for Rural Studies, National Academy of Administration, India. Centre
for Rural Studies, National Academy of Administration, India. (September
2002-present)
- Land Valuation and Compensation in Expropriation
Law and Practice in China, Cambodia & India, Asian Development Bank.
Field research, literature review, comparative studies and assessments,
and legal and policy advice on asset valuation relating to development-induced
land expropriations. Final work product consists of a comprehensive
paper reviewing the three countries’ valuation methodologies of
land and other immovable assets and their corresponding compensation
schemes. It also includes country-specific recommendations and general
advice on how ADB may help client countries improve their valuation
and compensation policies. (September 2005 to January 2006)
- India: A Revised Agenda for Land Reform, Indian
National Institute for Rural Development and other Indian counterparts.
Serving as RDI’s resident representative, focusing primarily on
research and consultancy services on improving the rural poor’s
access to land in selected states. Includes land legislation review
and analysis, land administration assessments, rural household surveys,
case studies, gender impact analysis, sharing workshops, reports, and
policy maker consultations. Private foundation supported. (March 2001
to Present)
- Land Law Reform in Indonesia, University of
Indonesia, Faculty of Law. Ongoing research and legal assistance to
the Ministry of Justice and the National Land Agency on revising the
Basic Agrarian Law (land law), drafting a Law on Ownership, and developing
a decree to establish a garden-plot distribution program for landless
families. Supported by private foundations.(November 1998 to May 2001)
- Land Law Reform in Indonesia, USAID and Checchi
Consulting Corporation. Initial legal technical assistance to the National
Land Agency on revising the Basic Agrarian Law (land law) and drafting
five other new or revised laws or regulations: Law on Land Ownership;
Law on Acquisition of Land for a Public Purpose; Law on Land Redistribution;
Law on Land Registration; and Law on Land Use Planning. Included field
research on customary law and gender issues related to land. (August
2000 to November 2000)
- Land Reform Consultant to Government of Mongolia
Land Reform Commission, World Bank and Government of Mongolia. Consultant
services on creating a policy and legal framework for a comprehensive,
nation-wide land reform strategy. (May 1999 to June 2000)
- China Rural Land System Project, PRC State
Council Development Research Center; PRC Ministry of Agriculture; and
China Institute for Reform and Development. Legal, policy, and project
assistance on rural land system issues. Supported by UNDP and private
foundations. (August 1987 to May 2001)
- Legal Impediments to Effective Rural Land Relations
in Europe and Central Asia: A Comparative Perspective, World Bank.
Research report including construction of a methodology for officials
in Europe and Central Asia to assess the extent to which legal and institutional
environments effectively support rural land relations. Co-editor and
authored chapter on rural land law reform. (March 1998 to July 1998)
- Tenure Assessment, USAID/Jakarta. Analysis
of key land tenure problems and their relationships to sustainable development
in Indonesia. (November 1996 to March 1997)
- Policy and Legal Advice on Land Privatization and
Land Market Development in Russia, USAID/Moscow and Harvard Institute
for International Development. Consultant services on policy, legal
and administrative issues of farm reorganization and land market creation
in Russia. (October 1993 to March 1999)
- Moldova Land and Real Estate Markets, Booz,
Allen & Hamilton Inc. and USAID/Washington. Consultant services
on legal and regulatory issues on the development of land and real estate
markets in Moldova. (January 1996 to January 2001)
- Urban/Industrial Land Privatization in the Republic of Georgia, Booz, Allen & Hamilton and USAID. Consultant services on legal and regulatory issues on land market development in Georgia. (November 1997 to November 2000)
Affiliate Assistant Professor of Law and Co-Director, Graduate Program in Law of Sustainable International Development, 1995 - Present, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, WA. Taught year-long seminar on international development issues to J.D. and LL.M. (post-J.D.) students.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
(2008) "Improving Land Access for India’s Rural Poor," Economic & Political Weekly, (March 8, 2008) (with T. Haque and Robin Nielsen).
(2007) "Compensation and Valuation in Resettlement: Cambodia, People’s Republic of China, and India," Asian Development Bank Capacity Building for Resettlement Risk Management (November 2007).
(2006) "Land Reform in the Twenty-First Century: New Challenges, New Responses." Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Vol. 4, Issue 2 (with Roy Prosterman).
(2006) 'Amending the West Bengal Land Reforms Act: Benefiting the Poor and Marginalized," Economic Development of West Bengal Vol. II (with Jennifer Brown).
(2004) Small Homegarden Plots and Sustainable Livelihoods for the Poor, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations Livelihoods Support Program Working Paper (with Robert Mitchell).
(2004) Land and Livelihoods: Making Land Rights Real for India’s Rural Poor, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations Livelihoods Support Program Working Paper (with Robin Nielsen and Jennifer Brown).
(2004) "West Bengal’s Bargadars and Landownership," Economic and Political Weekly, (February 21, 2004) (with Robin Nielsen).
(2002) "Larger Homestead Plots as Land Reform? International Experience and Analysis from Karnataka," Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 37, No. 29 (July 20, 2002) (with Jennifer Brown and Roy Prosterman).
Editor and contributor, Legal Impediments to Effective Rural Land Relations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: A Comparative Perspective. World Bank Technical Report #436, (1999), (with Roy Prosterman).
(1990) Editor and contributor, Agrarian Reform and Grassroots Development: Ten Case Studies. Lynne Rienner Press (with Roy Prosterman and Mary Temple).
(1993)“A Fieldwork-Based Appraisal of Individual Peasant Farming in Russia” in Don Van Atta, ed., The "Farmer Threat": The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in Post-Soviet Russia (Westview Press, 1993) (with Roy Prosterman)
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(2002) “Larger Homestead Plots as Land Reform? International Experience and Analysis from Karnataka,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 37, No. 29, July 20, 2002 (with Jennifer Brown and Roy Prosterman).
(1998) “Designing Land Registration Systems for Developing Countries.” 13 American University International Law Review 3 (1998).
(1998) “Large-Scale Farming in China: An Appropriate Policy?” 28 Journal of Contemporary Asia 74 (1998) (with Prosterman and Li).
(1997) “Land Reform in the People’s Republic of China: Auctioning Rights to Wasteland,” Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Journal 19 (1997).
(1996) “Can China Feed Itself?” Scientific American (with Prosterman and Li).
(1994)“Protecting Kirghizstan's Land Resources,” 12 Surviving Together 1.
(1988) “Philippine Land Reform: the Just Compensation Issue,” 63 Washington Law Review.
(1995) “Land System Reform in China’s Countryside,” [in Chinese] 3 Chinese Rural Economy.
(1999) “Land Reform in China: The Two Field System in Pingdu,” Social Sciences in China.
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