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    • Owen Barder, Visiting Fellow

      Owen Barder is an economist and Director of aidinfo at Development Initiatives a programme which aims to make information about aid more accessible. He is based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  He is also the presenter of Development Drums, a podcast about development issues.

    • Pranab Bardhan, Non-Resident Fellow

      Pranab Bardhan is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley where he has been since 1977. Before joining the Berkeley faculty, Bardhan was a professor at MIT and the Delhi School of Economics. Bardhan was the Chief Editor of the Journal of Development Economic, and the co-chair of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance. From 2008-2009 Bardhan held the distinguished Fulbright Siena Chair at the University of Siena, Italy, and from 2010-2011 Bardhan will be the BP Centennial Professor at London School of Economics.

    • 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. Her most recent book is Cash on Delivery: A New Approach to Foreign Aid.

    • Chris Blattman, Non-Resident Fellow

      Chris Blattman is an assistant professor of political science and Economics at Yale University. In addition to being a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development, Chris is a Research Affiliate with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), a board member of the Journal of Globalization and Development (JGD), and a member of the International Growth Center (IGC). He also acts as a consultant and adviser to the World Bank, UNICEF, the UN Peacebuilding Fund, Uganda’s Office of the Prime Minister, and Liberia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.

    • Thomas Bollyky, Visiting Fellow

      Thomas J. Bollyky is a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development where he investigates the legal and ethical issues that arise during the discovery, development, and delivery of essential medical technologies to the developing world.

      Learn more from his YouTube interview

    • Kimberly Ann Elliott, Senior Fellow

      Kimberly Ann Elliott is the author or co-author of numerous books and articles on a variety of trade policy and globalization issues, including uses of economic leverage in international negotiations (both economic sanctions for foreign policy goals and trade threats and sanctions in commercial disputes). Her most recent book is Delivering on Doha: Farm Trade and the Poor, which was co-published by CGD and the Peterson Institute (PIIE) in July 2006.

    • Ricardo Hausmann, Non-Resident Fellow
      Ricardo Hausmann is Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Previously, he served as the first Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank (1994-2000), where he created the Research Department.
    • 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 countries, immigration, and globalization.

    • Carol J. Lancaster, Non-Resident Fellow
      Carol Lancaster is Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. 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, 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 serving as CGD's vice president for programs and operations, she leads the Center's work on global health policy, including chairing a series of working groups on key policy and finance constraints to the effective use of donor funding for health programs in low-income countries.

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  • 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 recent book, The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President, for a lively discussion of the prospects for improved U.S. development policy under President Barack Obama.

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