CGD's Board of Directors is comprised of prominent individuals from the public and private sectors with a passionate commitment to development. The Board meets twice a year to review the Center’s activities and finances and to provide advice and counsel to the President. A subset of the Board, the Executive Committee, meets quarterly to provide ongoing oversight. The Board is responsible for the overall control of the Center’s property, funds, and affairs.
Edward Scott
Founder, BEA Systems, Inc.; Co-Founder and Chair, Center for Global Development; Co-Founder, DATA (Debt, Aid and Trade for Africa); Founder and Chairman, Friends of the Global Fight
Timothy D. Adams
Former Under Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury.
Bernard Aronson
Chairman, ACON Investments LLC; U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, 1989-93
C. Fred Bergsten
Co-Founder, Center for Global Development; Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics; Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, 1977-81
Nancy Birdsall
President and Co-Founder, Center for Global Development; former Executive Vice-President, Inter-American Development Bank
Mark Malloch-Brown
Former UK Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Jessica P. Einhorn
Dean, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University
David Gergen
Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University; Editor-at-Large at U.S. News and World Report; Former advisor to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton
Thomas R. Gibian
Chief Executive Officer, Emerging Capital Partners
C. Boyden Gray
Former U.S. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy and former Special Envoy for European Union Affairs
Bruns Grayson
Bruns Grayson is Managing Partner of ABS Ventures in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Jose Angel Gurria Treviño
Secretary-General for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Chair, External Advisory Group, Inter-American Development Bank; former Minister of Finance and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mexico
James Harmon
Founder of Harmon & Co; former Chairman, Chairman of the Board of the World Resources Institute (WRI); President and CEO of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (until 2001); former Chairman and CEO of Schroder Wertheim & Co.
Enrique V. Iglesias
Ibero-American General Secretary, former President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Kassahun Kebede
Founder and Managing Partner of Panton Capital Group; President and Chairman of the Board of the Fistula Foundation; former head of Global Equity Derivatives at Deutsche Bank
Susan B. Levine
Vice Chair of Board of Directors; Director, Business Development, of Marshfield Associates; Co-founder, Quince Hill Partners, LLC; Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for International Development, Debt, and Environmental Policy, 1993-95
Edward E. McNally
Partner, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP; former General Counsel, Homeland Security Council
M. Peter McPherson
Chairman of the Board, Dow Jones & Company; President of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC), President-Emeritus of Michigan State University (MSU); Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1981-87
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Managing Director of the World Bank; Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Brookings Institution; former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Minister of Finance and Economy of Nigeria
Lant Pritchett (ex officio)
Chairman, Center for Global Development Advisory Group; Professor of the Practice of International Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
John T. Reid
Former Chief Technology Officer, Colgate Palmolive; former CEO, CityQuicker
S. Jacob Scherr
Senior Attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC); Director of NRDC's International Program and a Director of the NRDC BioGems Initiative
Patty Stonesifer
Former Co-chair and CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Belinda Stronach
Executive Vice- Chairman, Magna International Inc. and Co-Founder, Spread the Net
Lawrence H. Summers (on leave)
Director, White House’s National Economic Council
Toni G. Verstandig
Senior Policy Advisor, Center for Middle East Peace & Economic Cooperation and Senior Policy Advisor, Aspen Institute Middle East Strategy Group
Adam Waldman
President, The Endeavor Group
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