Muna B. Ndulo, professor of law at Cornell University Law School, has been named director of Cornell's Institute for African Development. The interdisciplinary institute, established in 1987, fosters teaching, research and outreach linked to food security, human resource development, environmental resource management and policy guidance in sub-Saharan Africa.

Ndulo will continue as a Law School faculty member while holding his new position. He succeeds David B. Lewis, director of the institute since its inception.

"Dr. Ndulo is ideal to direct this important institute's research and application activities," said Lee Teitelbaum, the Allan R. Tessler dean and professor of law at the Law School. "We are proud of his affiliation with the institute and his ongoing relationship to the Law School's mission of teaching and scholarship."

The institute sponsors seminars and symposia, manages a fellowship program for graduate students from Africa and facilitates development of new Africa-related academic courses at Cornell. It unites faculty interested in Africa from the humanities, physical sciences and social sciences from all 11 schools and colleges at Cornell's Ithaca campus.

Ndulo earned a law degree from the University of Zambia, where he later taught and served as dean for five years. His holds a master's degree in law from Harvard University and a doctorate from Trinity College, University of Oxford. His academic interests include legal aspects of foreign investments in developing countries, international human rights, common law and African legal systems and the drafting of constitutions for emerging nations. He has been affiliated with Cornell Law School since 1984, when he first served on the faculty as visiting professor.

Ndulo also has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the Economic Commission for Africa and the International Labour Organization and has taught at the International Development Law Institute in Rome. For ten years he was a legal officer for the United Nations Commission on

International Trade Law, Vienna. In the summer of 2000, he served as legal adviser to the United Nations in Kosovo. In 1999 he was chief legal adviser for the U.N. mission in East Timor. And from 1992 to 1994, he was chief political adviser to the special representative of the secretary general of the United Nations for South Africa, Lakdar Brahimi, who currently is the secretary-general's special representative to Afghanistan.