Walden Bello, the director of the Focus on the Global South, a diffident, shyly-spoken and bespectacled man, is fast becoming one of the stars of the "fringe" here at the counter-conferences to the Gleaneagles summit.
His modest demeanour belies a radical mind and a calm but provocative way with words – which has seen him receive death threats from the Communist party in the Phillipines this year, where he is a professor of public administration and sociology.
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