Authors
Nancy BirdsallExpertise Political economy of market transitions; developing nations; Latin America; East Asia; education; inequality; international financial institutions Education Ph.D., Yale University, 1979; M.A., Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, 1969; B.A., Newton College of the Sacred Heart, 1967 Background Nancy Birdsall is the founding president of the Center for Global Development. Prior to launching the center, Birdsall served for three years as Senior Associate and Director of the Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her work at Carnegie focused on issues of globalization and inequality, as well as on the reform of the international financial institutions. From 1993 to 1998, Birdsall was Executive Vice-President of the Inter-American Development Bank, the largest of the regional development banks, where she oversaw a $30 billion public and private loan portfolio. Before joining the Inter-American Development Bank, Birdsall spent 14 years in research, policy, and management positions at the World Bank, most recently as Director of the Policy Research Department. Ms. Birdsall is the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books and monographs. She has also written more than 75 articles for books and scholarly journals published in English and Spanish. Shorter pieces of her writing have appeared in dozens of U.S. and Latin American newspapers and periodicals.
Ruth LevineExpertise Global Health and social policy; proven successes in global health, incentives for vaccine R&D, evaluation Education Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health B.A. Cornell University Background Ruth is a health economist with 15 years of experience working on health and family planning financing issues in Latin America, Eastern Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. At CGD, she sets priorities and manages programs that use research to address practical policy challenges; she manages the Global Health Policy Research Network. Before joining the Center, Ruth designed, supervised, and evaluated health sector loans at the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. Ruth also conducted research on the health sector, and led the World Bank’s knowledge management activities in health economics and finance between 1999 and 2002. Between 1997 and 1999, she served as the advisor on the social sectors in the Office of the Executive Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank. Ruth has a doctoral degree from Johns Hopkins University, has published on health and family planning finance topics, and is the co-author of the books, The Health of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (World Bank, 2001), Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health (CGD, 2004), which is currently on the required reading list at 10 US universities, and Making Markets for Vaccines: Ideas to Action (CGD, 2005).
William D. SavedoffExpertise Financing and delivery of social services in developing countries. Education Ph.D. and M.A. Boston University, A. B. Harvard University Background William D. Savedoff is a Senior Partner at Social Insight, an international consulting firm that provides economic and political analyses of public policy. Dr. Savedoff’s expertise is related to improving the quality of social services in developing countries, with particular attention to changes in institutions, organizations, and contractual arrangements. In addition to preparing, coordinating, and advising development projects in Latin America, Africa and Asia, he has published books and articles on labor markets, health, education, water, and housing, including the introduction to The Global Corruption Report 2006 (Transparency International), Wealth from Health, and Spilled Water. Before joining Social Insight, Dr. Savedoff was an Associate Researcher at the Instituto de Pesquisa de Economia Aplicada (Rio de Janeiro), a Senior Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank (Washington, DC), and a Senior Economist at the World Health Organization (Geneva). He received his A.B. at Harvard University and his M.A. and PhD in Economics from Boston University. He currently serves on the editorial board of Health Policy & Planning and as an editorial advisor to Transparency International. |