Nancy Birdsall, Owen Barder, David Roodman and Michael Clemens were mentioned in a Guardian blog on the top twenty global development twitter users to follow.
From the Blog
The development Twittersphere has grown hugely in the last few years, and it's a great place to spot the latest news, opinion, challenges – and sometimes public clashes.
Below is a selection of 20 well-known development Twitter users, plus their own Twitter biographies, for a flavour of how some development experts use this microblogging site. This is just a snapshot of some of the most interesting people you could be following, rather than a definitive list. We hope this encourages you to explore the development Twittersphere yourself:
1. Alanna Shaikh – International development optimist & sceptic, global health & int'l dev blogger for Aid Watch and UN Dispatch, TED fellow. All tweets my opinion not employer's
2. William Easterly – NYU econ prof; author White Man's Burden, fan of common sense, critic of nonsense in fighting global poverty, advocate of individual rights for all
3. Calestous Juma – I teach science and innovation policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Searching patterns of global change by monitoring and sharing news. If in doubt, unfollow
4. Chris Blattman – I write, read, teach and blog on development, economics, politics, Africa and foreign policy (plus many other frivolous things). I'm faculty at Yale
5. Dambisa Moyo – Economist & author of NY Times bestselling Dead Aid & How The West Was Lost. Named by Time as one of 100 most influential people in the world in 2009
6. David Roodman – Senior fellow at the Centre for Global Development, studying microfinance, third world debt; crunching numbers and penning prose