Ideas to Action:

Independent research for global prosperity

Carol J. Lancaster

Non-Resident Fellow

Carol Lancaster is a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development and dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Before joining the Georgetown faculty in 1996, Professor Lancaster served three years as Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. She has also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1980-81) and as a member of the Policy Planning Staff of the Department of State (1977-80). Lancaster has written several books on African development and U.S. foreign assistance, including Transforming U.S. Aid: United States Assistance in the 21st Century, which was published by the Institute for International Economics, and Aid to Africa: So Much to do, So Little Done. She has written or edited several other books and several dozen articles published in scholarly journals and periodicals. Carol chaired the board of directors of the Center for Economic Development and Population Activities. Previously, she served on the boards of Volunteers in Technical Assistance and World Education. She has been a member of the USAID Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid since 1997.