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    • Owen Barder, Senior Fellow and Director for Europe

      Owen Barder's work focuses on transparency and accountability in aid and the political economy of development policies. As director for Europe, he is leading CGD's effort to internationalize its policy outreach. He was previously a British civil servant in a career spanning more than 20 years and...

    • Desmond Bermingham, Former Visiting Fellow

      Desmond Bermingham was a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development from January - September, 2009, conducting research on aid effectiveness and education. As part of his research he worked on a book regarding the lessons learned from his previous years as the Head of the Education for...

    • Nancy Birdsall, President

      An internationally recognized expert on the impact of rich-country policies on poor people in developing countries, Nancy Birdsall is the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books and over 100 articles in scholarly journals and monographs, published in English and Spanish. She is the...

    • Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow

      Michael Clemens leads CGD's Migration and Development initiative. His research focuses on the effects of international migration on people from and in developing countries. He also serves as CGD’s research manager, directing the Center’s engagement with the academic research community.

    • Alan Gelb, Senior Fellow

      Alan’s recent research includes aid and development outcomes, the transition from planned to market economies, and the special development challenges of resource-rich countries. He was previously director of development policy at the World Bank and chief economist for the Bank’s Africa region.

    • James Habyarimana, Non-Resident Fellow

      James Habyarimana joined the center in September 2004 just after completing his doctoral studies in development economics at Harvard University. His main research in graduate school touched on the role of public finance in improving educational outcomes in Zambia, the disease environment as a...

    • Sheila Herrling, Former Director of Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance

      Sheila held several positions at CGD, serving first as director of communications and policy and more recently as a senior policy analyst and director of the Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Program (formerly the MCA Monitor). Within her role as program director, Herrling evaluated U.S....

    • Dean Karlan, Non-Resident Fellow

      Dean Karlan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale University. Karlan is President of Innovations for Poverty Action and a research fellow of the M.I.T. Jameel Poverty Action Lab. His research focuses on microeconomic issues of poverty, specifically employing experimental methodologies to...

    • Julius Kiiza, Former Visiting Fellow

      Julius Kiiza is an IDRC visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development and teaches political economy, public policy and development studies in the department of political science at Makerere University (Uganda). He holds a Bachelors degree from Makerere, a First Class Master of Public Policy...

    • Molly Kinder, Former Senior Policy Analyst

      Molly Kinder manages the U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan initiative. She previously worked in Pakistan for the World Bank during the aftermath of the 2005 earthquake and in India on a research study on rural poverty. Kinder is a co-author of CGD's best-selling book, Millions Saved: Proven...

    • Michael Kremer, Non-Resident Fellow

      Michael Kremer is the Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the department of economics at Harvard University, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development. Kremer’s recent research examines education and health in developing...

    • Carol J. Lancaster, Non-Resident Fellow

      Carol Lancaster is the dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Before joining the Georgetown faculty in 1996, Professor Lancaster served three years as Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

    • Ruth Levine, Former Vice President for Programs and Operations, and Senior Fellow

      Ruth Levine is an internationally recognized expert on global health and health policy. She is a health economist with more than 15 years of experience designing and assessing the effects of social sector programs in Latin America, Eastern Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. In addition to...

    • Todd Moss, Vice President for Programs and Senior Fellow

      Todd Moss works on U.S.-Africa relations and financial issues facing sub-Saharan Africa, including policies that affect private capital flows, natural resource management, debt, and aid. Todd oversees the Center’s fundraising efforts and relations with external partners.

    • Mead Over, Senior Fellow

      Mead Over applies economics and statistics in the search for more effective, efficient, and pro-poor health policies in developing countries. His newest book is Achieving an AIDS Transition: Preventing Infections to Sustain Treatment.

    • Steve Radelet, Former Senior Fellow

      Steve Radelet works on issues related to foreign aid, developing country debt, economic growth, and trade between rich and poor countries. He also leads CGD's Modernizing U.S. Foreign Assistance and MCA Monitor initiatives.

    • David Roodman, Senior Fellow

      David Roodman's research focuses on microfinance, debt relief, and climate change. His book Due Diligence: An Impertinent Inquiry into Microfinance is available now.

    • Justin Sandefur, Research Fellow

      Justin Sandefur focuses on the interface of law and development in sub-Saharan Africa. From 2008 to 2010, he served as an adviser to the Tanzanian government to set up the country's National Panel Survey to monitor poverty dynamics and agricultural production. He has also worked on a project with...

    • William Savedoff, Senior Fellow

      Bill Savedoff has been working for more than 20 years on economic and social development issues. His work is focused on finding ways to improve the quality of social services in developing countries, with particular attention to incentives, institutions, and political economy. His most recent book...

    • Sarah Jane Staats, Director of Policy Outreach

      Sarah Jane Staats is responsible for engaging the development policy community, especially the administration, senior staff in the U.S. Congress, and policy experts in leading development advocacy NGOs, in the Center's research and other programs. This week on the Global Prosperity Wonkcast, she...

    • Arvind Subramanian, Senior Fellow

      Arvind Subramanian’s current work focuses on the economics of climate change and the ascendancy of China. His latest book is Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance. He is a joint senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

    • Nicolas van de Walle, Non-Resident Fellow

      Nicolas van de Walle is a Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell and a nonresident Fellow at the Center for Global Development. He is the author of Overcoming Stagnation in Aid-Dependent Countries.

    • David Wheeler, Senior Fellow Emeritus

      Until his recent retirement, David Wheeler led CGD’s work on climate change, which includes assessing the stakes for developing countries, integrating climate change into development assistance, and using public information disclosure to reduce emissions. He is the architect of two Web-based...

  • 2011 Commitment to Development Index

    What Is the CDI? Rich and poor countries are linked in many ways--by foreign aid, commerce, migration, the environment, and military affairs. The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) rates 22 rich countries on how much they help poor countries build prosperity, good government, and security. Each...

  • Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid

    COD Aid is a new approach to aid delivery under which donors pay for measurable progress on specific outcomes; for example, a country could receive $100 for each additional child who completes primary school and takes a test.

  • MCA Monitor

    The Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), an innovative U.S. foreign assistance program established in 2004 to complement existing programs, targets a select group of poor countries with demonstrated commitment to economic growth and development, emphasizes country ownership, and focuses on...

  • Pakistan: U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan

    CGD has convened the Study Group on a U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan to draw lessons from past experiences and offer practical recommendations to U.S. policymakers on the effective deployment of foreign assistance and, more broadly, other non-aid instruments for achieving sustainable...

  • Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance

    Building on the success of CGD’s MCA Monitor, this initiative offers information, dialogue, and analysis on U.S. foreign assistance reform. It aims to help elevate development and U.S. foreign assistance as a critical national interest priority.

  • Leapfrogging Technology, the Case for Biometrics: Alan Gelb - Jun 27, 2011

    The Wonkcast is taking a brief summer vacation. We’ve selected this show from our archives- it was originally posted on January 11, 2011. In developed countries, official identification systems are a fact of life, providing the foundation for a myriad of transactions including elections,...

  • One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Lant Pritchett on Mimicry in Development - Mar 14, 2011

    Development is easy, right? All poor countries have to do is mimic the things that work in rich countries and they’ll evolve into fully functional states. If only it were that simple. My guest this week is Lant Pritchett, a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development and chair of...

  • Evaluating the Millennium Villages: Michael Clemens and Gabriel Demombynes - Oct 12, 2010

    In development, it's good to try new, innovative ideas-- but even better to know whether or not they work. My guests this week are Michael Clemens, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, and Gabriel Demombynes, a senior economist at the World Bank, based in Nairobi, Kenya. They have...

  • Following the Money: Owen Barder On Why Aid Transparency Matters - Mar 22, 2010

    My guest this week is Owen Barder, a visiting fellow here at the Center for the Global Development and the director of the AidInfo project at Development Initiatives, a UK-based NGO. Owen's current work focuses on improving the transparency of the international aid system—making it easier to know...

  • Cash on Delivery Aid: Ayah Mahgoub on COD in Education - Mar 9, 2010

    I'm joined this week by Ayah Mahgoub, a program coordinator here at the Center for Global Development who works on issues related to the effectiveness of foreign aid. Along with Nancy Birdsall and Bill Savedoff, Ayah is working on designing a new form of development assistance called Cash on...

  • Getting Aid Right in Northern Uganda—Interview with Julius Kiiza - Mar 1, 2010

    I'm joined on the Wonkcast this week by Julius Kiiza, a visiting fellow here at the Center for Global Development. Julius is an associate professor at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda and is spending time at CGD on a grant from the Canadian International Development Research Center. His...

  • Nancy Birdsall on Cash on Delivery Aid - Feb 17, 2010

    Can aid donors find a better way to deliver aid? My guest this week is Nancy Birdsall, president of the Center for Global Development. Along with William Savedoff and Ayah Mahgoub, Nancy is working on a potential new way of disbursing foreign assistance called Cash on Delivery Aid. COD Aid seeks to...

  • CGD Special Discussion with David Gergen on Obama's Global Development Policy (Event Video) - Jan 17, 2009

    Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, editor-at-large at U.S. News & World Report, and a senior political analyst for CNN, David Gergen joined CGD president Nancy Birdsall, and CGD senior fellows who authored essays in our...

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