Sheila Herrling

Senior Policy Associate and Director, Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Program
sherrling@cgdev.org

Education

BA in Economics from William Smith College and a Masters in Development Economics from American University.

Background

Sheila Herrling manages CGD's Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Program, a one-stop shop for information, dialogue and analysis on the progress and challenges in modernizing U.S. foreign assistance.  The new program will continue to analyze the efforts of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, an integral component of the broader development effectiveness and foreign assistance reform debates, with the MCA Monitor becoming a subset of the expanded program.  To reflect this broader analytical approach, the MCA Monitor blog has been renamed the Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance blog and Herrling is the principal contributor.  This blog will not only track and analyze the effectiveness of the MCA but will also expand in scope to provide CGD expert opinion on how to reform the mission, mandate and organizational structure of US foreign assistance.  Herrling is a co-author with former CGD senior fellow Steve Radelet of U.S. Foreign Assistance for the Twenty-first Century (CGD, 2008) and From Innovation to Impact: Next Steps for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (CGD, 2009).

Herring is a Principal of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) and Chairman of the Board of Directors of One World U.S., a global community of over 1600 organizations working together for human rights and sustainable development.  She previously served as CGD’s Director of Communications and Policy and as U.S. Department of Treasury’s Deputy Director of Development Policy. She held a variety of positions during her thirteen-year tenure with the U.S. Treasury Department, including five years in Cote d’Ivoire as Advisor to the U.S. Executive Director of the African Development Bank.  Herrling served on President Obama's Transition Team reviewing the policies and operations of USAID, MCC, and PEPFAR.