The political economy of development policies and aid, transparency and accountability, innovative finance, public financial management, information, knowledge, technology, new media, Africa, health economics.
MSc in Economics, London School of Economics; BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, New College Oxford.
Owen Barder is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and the Director for Europe. He is establishing a European program for CGD. Barder is also a member of the International Development Sector Transparency Panel, which will seek to influence and advise the UK's Department for International Development on their approach to international development. Barder was a British civil servant from 1988 to 2010, during which time he worked in the UK Treasury, No.10 Downing Street and the Department for International Development. He was Private Secretary (Economic Affairs) to the Prime Minister and previously Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. In the Department for International Development he was variously Director of International Finance and Development Effectiveness, Director of Communications and Information, and head of Africa Policy Department. During 2005-2007 Barder was a Senior Program Associate at CGD, where he worked on the Advance Markets Commitment for vaccines. Barder has also worked in the South African Treasury on budget strategy, and was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Barder is a non-executive director of Twaweza. He writes a personal blog at http://www.owen.org/blog and hosts a development podcast at http://DevelopmentDrums.org. He also writes about running.
