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Advisory Group

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