August 10, 2009
It was widely reported last week that Paul Farmer, the longest-rumored contender for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) administrator nomination, is out of the running. Sheila Herrling, director of CGD’s Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Program, speculates on why, after seven months, there is still no appointee at the helm of USAID and the search seemingly must start all over again. Herrling proposes a few new names for candidates and asks you to do the same.