Center for Global Development

The stated Mission of the Center for Global Development states that the Center is "dedicated to reducing global poverty and inequality through policy-oriented research and active engagement on development issues with the policy community and the public. A principal focus of the Center's work will be policies of the United States and other industrial countries that affect development prospects in poor countries."

"The Center's research will assess the impact on poor people of globalization and of the policies of industrial countries, developing countries and multilateral institutions. The Center will seek to identify alternative policies that will promote equitable growth and participatory development in low-income and transitional economies, and, in collaboration with civil society and private sector groups, seek to translate policy ideas into policy reforms. The Center will also partner with other institutions in efforts to improve public understanding in industrial countries of the economic, political, and strategic benefits of promoting improved living standards and governance in developing countries."

"The Center was founded by Edward W. Scott, Jr., who is Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nancy Birdsall, the Center's President, and C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics."

"The Center for Global Development contributed substantially to the Initiative for Global Development's report "A New Global Development Strategy to End Extreme Poverty.""

*Board of Directors


 * Bernard Aronson, Managing Partner, ACON Investments LLC; U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, 1989-93
 * Kwesi Botchwey, Director of Africa Research and Programs, Center for International Development, Harvard University; former Minister of Finance, Ghana
 * Jessica P. Einhorn
 * C. Boyden Gray, Partner, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering; White House Counsel, 1989-93
 * Bruns Grayson,Managing Partner, ABS Ventures
 * Jose Angel Gurria Treviño, Chair, External Advisory Group, Inter-American Development Bank; former Minister of Finance and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mexico
 * J. Bryan Hehir, President and CEO, Catholic Charities USA; former Chair of the Executive Committee, Harvard Divinity School; former Director, Office of International Affairs, U.S. Catholic Conference
 * John L. Hennessy, President, Stanford University; former Provost, Stanford University; co-founder, MIPS Technologies
 * Rima Khalaf Hunaidi, Assistant Administrator and Regional Director for the Arab States, United Nations Development Programme; former Deputy Prime Minister, Jordan
 * Carol J. Lancaster, Professor and Director of the Master's Program, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Deputy Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1993-96
 * Susan B. Levine, Managing Partner, Quince Hill Partners, LLC; Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for International Development, Debt, and Environmental Policy, 1993-95
 * Reynold Levy, President, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (May 2002); former President and CEO, International Rescue Committee
 * Sir Colin Lucas, Vice Chancellor, University of Oxford (UK); former Master of Balliol College, Oxford; former Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago
 * Nora C. Lustig, President, Universidad de las Américas-Puebla, México; former Senior Advisor and Chief of the Poverty and Inequality Unit, Inter-American Development Bank
 * M. Peter McPherson, President, Michigan State University; Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, 1987-89; Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1981-87
 * Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs, Columbia University; Director, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998-2001
 * John T. Reid, Adjunct Professor, Stern Business School, New York University; former Chief Technology Officer, Colgate Palmolive; former CEO, CityQuicker
 * Dani Rodrik (ex officio), Chairman, Center for Global Development Research and Program Advisory Committee; Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
 * William D. Ruckelshaus, Strategic Director, Madrona Venture Group, and Chairman, World Resources Institute; former Chairman and CEO, Browning-Ferris Industries, Inc.; former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1970-73 and 1983-85)
 * Richard Sabot, Chairman of the Board and co-founder, Eziba.com; Emeritus Professor of Economics, Williams College
 * Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, Earth Institute, and Professor of Economics, International and Public Affairs, and Health Policy and Management, Columbia University (July 2002); Director, Center for International Development, Harvard University
 * Amartya K. Sen, Nobel Laureate; Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University; Lamont University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
 * James Gustave Gus Speth
 * Ernest Stern, Former Managing Director, JPMorgan; former Managing Director, World Bank
 * Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate; Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University; Chairman, White House Council of Economic Advisors, 1993-97; former Chief Economist, World Bank
 * Lawrence H. Summers, President, Harvard University; Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, 1999-2001

Advisory Group

 * 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 - Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution
 * Angus Deaton - Professor of Economics, 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 and Chair of 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 - Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Sloan School of Management, MIT
 * Anne Krueger - First Deputy Director, International Monetary Fund
 * David Lipton - Managing Director, Head of Country Risk Management, CitiGroup
 * Mark Medish - 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 Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
 * Robert H. Wade - Professor of Political Economy Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics
 * Kevin Watkins - Senior Policy Analyst, UNDP
 * John Williamson - Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics
 * Ngaire Woods - Director of Research Methods Training in International Relations, Oxford University
 * Ernesto Zedillo - Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization

Members in the capacity as a CGD Board member: Source
 * 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

Contact
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