In 2003, the Center formed a research advisory committee (now called the advisory group). This prestigious group includes top-flight development economists, political scientists, sociologists, as well as policy advocates and makers. Their purpose is two fold: to serve as a sounding board on the quality and logic of our research program; and to catalyze a discussion on the next big issues that our research should address. Committee members are listed below.
Masood Ahmed
Director, External Relations Department International Monetary Fund
Abhijit Banerjee
Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pranab Bardhan
Professor of Economics, University of California Berkeley
Jere Behrman
Professor of Economics and Director of the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
Thomas Carothers
Vice President for Studies, Democracy, Rule of Law, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Anne Case
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and Director, Research Program in Development Studies, Princeton University
David De Ferranti
Executive Director, Global Health Initiative; Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution
Angus Deaton
Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Kemal Dervis
Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
Esther Duflo
Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, MIT; Director, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (MIT)
Peter Evans
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Kristin Forbes
Professor of Management, MIT-Sloan School of Management
Carol Graham
Senior Fellow and Co-Director, CSED Brookings Institution
J. Bryan Hehir
Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Harvard University; Secretary for Social Services and the President of Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Boston
Simon Johnson
Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund. on sabbatical from the Sloan School of Management, MIT
Anne Krueger
Professor of International Economics, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
David Lipton
Managing Director, Head of Country Risk Management, CitiGroup
Mark Medish
Vice President for Studies - Russia, China and Eurasia, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Deepa Narayan
Senior Adviser, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network, The World Bank
Rohini Pande
Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Kenneth Prewitt
Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs Columbia University - School of International and Public Affairs
Dani Rodrik
Chair of the Advisory Committee; Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, The Kennedy School of Government
David Rothkopf
Chairman and CEO, The Rothkopf Group
Federico Sturzenegger
Visiting Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Robert H. Wade
Professor of Political Economy Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics
Kevin Watkins
Director of EFA Global Monitoring Report, UNESCO
John Williamson
Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics
Ngaire Woods
Director of the Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford University
Ernesto Zedillo
Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Members in the capacity as a CGD Board member:
Timothy Geithner
President and Chief Executive Officer of Federal Reserve Board of New York
Rima Hunaidi
Former Assistant Secretary-General and Director, Regional Bureau for Arab States (RBAS), United Nations Development Programme; former Deputy Prime Minister, Jordan
