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class="clear"></div> </div> <h1 class="title"> Staff </h1>  <table style="width:100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td id="section-content" valign="top"> <div><p><style type="text/css"> table.expertrow{ border-collapse:collapse; } table.expertrow td{ border-bottom:1px solid #ccc; } p a{ font-weight: normal; }</style></p> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td height="1047" valign="top" width="55%" align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" width="97%"> <tbody> <tr> <td><strong>President</strong><a name="top"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/483/">Nancy Birdsall</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong><br/> Vice Presidents</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2710/">Lawrence MacDonald</a>, Vice President, Communications and Policy Outreach</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2713/">Todd Moss</a>, Vice President for Programs, and Senior Fellow</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong><br/> Program Staff</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1425008">Michele de Nevers</a>, Visiting Senior Associate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424518/">Amanda Glassman</a>, Director of Global Health Policy, and Research Fellow</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424455">Connie Veillette</a>, Director, Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Program</td> </tr> <tr> <td><hr style="margin: 4px 0px; height: 1px; color: #ccc"/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#JCLA">Julia Clark</a>, Program Coordinator</td> <tr> <td><a href="#DCUT">Danny Cutherell</a>, Policy Analyst </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#CADU">Casey Dunning</a>, Policy Analyst </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#KMcQ">Kate McQueston</a>, Program Coordinator</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#RPER">Rita Perakis</a>, Research Associate</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong><br/> Communications and Outreach Staff</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2710/">Lawrence MacDonald</a>, Vice President, Communications and Policy Outreach</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/8092/">Sarah Jane Staats</a>, Director of Policy Outreach</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#JBRI">Jessica Brinton</a>, Media Relations Coordinator</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#KLAW">Kyla Lawrence</a>, Events Coordinator</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#AGOR">Alexandra Gordon</a>, Communications Assistant</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#CMOL">Christopher Molitoris</a>, Policy Outreach Assistant</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#Jman">John Osterman</a>, Publications Manager</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#JOTT">Jenny Ottenhoff</a>, Policy Outreach Associate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#MWAT">Michael Watkins</a>, Web Technology Manager</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong><br/> Finance and Operations Staff</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#EMC">Ellen Mackenzie</a>, Director of Finance and Operations</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#Luke">Luke Easley</a>, Finance and Human Resources Manager</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#jg">Jeff Garland</a>, Information Technology Manager</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#sreyes">Sam Reyes</a>, Systems Administrator</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#CRONG">Charlie Rong</a>, Office Manager</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong><br/> Executive Office Staff</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#marchal">Sarah Marchal Murray</a>, Director of Institutional Advancement and Board Secretary</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#KDoug">Katherine Douglas Martel</a>, Institutional Advancement Associate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#AMAL">Annie Malknecht</a>, Assistant to the President</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#AMORA">Anna Moran</a>, Institutional Advancement Assistant</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#EPUT">Emily Putze,</a> Special Assistant to the President</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#LREN">Liza Reynolds,</a> Special Assistant to the Executive Office</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong><br/> Research Assistants </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#MAAM">Maria Alejandra Amado </a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#TCOL">Ted Collins</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#DDUR">Denizhan Duran </a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#JKAR">Jonathan Karver</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#SMAJ">Stephanie Majerowicz</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#OWMC">Owen McCarthy</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#WMcK">Will McKitterick</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#RSIL">Rachel Silverman</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#RTHU">Ross Thuotte</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#TVEL">Tejaswi Velayudhan</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#JWAL">Julie Walz</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong><br/> Interns</strong></td> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#AlBD">Alexandra Beizan-Diaz</a></td> </tr> <tr> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> <td valign="top" width="50%" align="left"> <p style="font-size: 12px"><strong>Resident Fellows<br/> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1423544/">Owen Barder</a><strong><br/> </strong><a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/483/">Nancy Birdsall</a><br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2570/">Michael Clemens</a><br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2693/">William Cline</a><br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2700/">Kimberly Ann Elliott</a><br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1425778/">Victoria Fan</a><br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1423702/">Alan Gelb</a><br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424518/">Amanda Glassman </a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424569">Charles Kenny </a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2713/">Todd Moss</a> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/10007/">Mead Over</a><br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2717/">Vijaya Ramachandran</a><br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2718/">Liliana Rojas-Suarez</a><br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2719/">David Roodman</a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424570">Justin Sandefur</a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/16573/">William Savedoff</a><br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/12989/">Arvind Subramanian</a><br/> <a detail="" expert="" content="" www.cgdev.org="" href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/11584/">David Wheeler</a></p> <p style="font-size: 12px"><strong>Visiting Fellows</strong><br> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/general/detail/15098/">Satish Chand</a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424246">Ibrahim Elbadawi</a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2704">Ethan Kapstein</a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1422271/">Darius Nassiry</a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1423672/">Andrew Natsios</a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1422040/">Nuhu Ribadu </a>(on-leave)<br> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1425407">Enrique Rueda-Sabater</a><br> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424772">Andy Sumner</a><br> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424325">Milan Vaishnav</a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1422922/">John Williamson<br></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1425450">Jessica Goldberg<br> </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1425519">Youssoufou Congo</a></p> <p style="font-size: 12px"><strong>Non-Resident Fellows</strong><br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/16350/">Jenny Aker</a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424100">Abhijit Banerjee</a><a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1423733/"><br/> Pranab Bardhan</a><br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/13993/">Chris Blattman</a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1422377/">Oeindrila Dube</a><br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2701/">James Habyarimana</a><br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2702/">Ricardo Hausmann</a><br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2705/">Devesh Kapur</a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/11761/">Dean Karlan</a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2706/">Michael Kremer</a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2707/">Carol J. Lancaster</a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/967228/">Nora Lustig</a><br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2712/">Theodore H. Moran</a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424732">Sendhil Mullainathan</a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/15190/">Guillermo Perry</a><br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1423734/">Raymond Robertson</a><br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1423732/">Paul Romer</a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/16363/">Jeremy Shiffman </a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1423306/">Duncan Thomas </a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2720/">Peter Timmer</a><br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2721/">Nicolas van de Walle</a><br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2722/">Jeremy Weinstein</a> (on-leave)</p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <table class="expertrow"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="border-bottom: 0px" colspan="2"> <h1>Executive Staff</h1> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Nancy Birdsall</strong> <br/> President <br/> <br/> <img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/1_Birdsall.jpg"/> <br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:president@cgdev.org">president@cgdev.org</a> <br/> <br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/483">Expert page</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><a name="NB"></a>Nancy Birdsall is the founding President of the Center for Global Development. Before 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.</p> <p>Ms. Birdsall is the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books and monographs, including, most recently, Cash on Delivery Aid: A New Approach to Foreign Aid, The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President, Fair Growth: Economic Policies for Latin America's Poor and Middle-Income Majority, and Rescuing the World Bank. 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<br/> <a target="_blank" href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/doc/expert%20pages/CV%20February%202005%20for%20CGD%20website.pdf">Full CV</a></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Sarah Marchal Murray</strong> <br/> Director of Institutional Advancement and Board Secretary <br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/marchal-murray.JPG"/> <br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:smmurray@cgdev.org">smmurray@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><a name="marchal"></a>Sarah Marchal Murray is the Director of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/donate/">Institutional Advancement</a> and Board Secretary at the Center for Global Development. In this role, she oversees the fundraising activities and leads initiatives aimed at engaging the philanthropic community in supporting CGD’s mission and work, as well as the activities of CGD’s Board of Directors. Marchal Murray brings over fifteen years of experience working with economic and social development organizations in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors, most recently as the first Director of Development for WaterAid America. In this capacity she lead the institutional development and capacity building as well as communications and marketing strategy for the development of U.S. operations. Marchal Murray was formerly an Executive Director with Community Counseling Service (CCS), an international fundraising consulting and management firm. While at CCS, her client work included conducting planning studies and assessments and designing and managing campaigns for clients in the healthcare, education, international service, and cultural arenas. Former clients include the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum/World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, Center for Autistic Children, The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Fundación Vamos México, Jewish Home and Hospital Healthcare System, and the Drawing Center among others. Early in her career, she worked as a political media consultant. Marchal Murray is a former United States Peace Corps volunteer in Guyana and is a graduate of Villanova University. She earned her Master's degree at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Katherine Douglas Martel <br/> </strong>Institutional Advancement Associate<br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="118" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/Katherine_Douglas-120.jpg"/><br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:kdmartel@cgdev.org">kdmartel@cgdev.org</a> <p> </p> </td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><strong><a name="KDoug"></a></strong></span>Katherine Douglas Martel is the Institutional Advancement Associate at the Center for Global Development. She began working at CGD in January 2010. Before joining the Center, Douglas Martel completed a Master of Public Policy with a concentration in international development at Georgetown University. Her thesis evaluated the impact of access to credit and microloans on household schooling decisions in Hyderabad, India. Her experience includes interning for the Legislative and Public Affairs department at the Millennium Challenge Corporation and working for the Equity, Poverty, and the Environment Initiative at the World Resources Institute. Douglas Martel graduated with a BA in public policy and a minor in psychology from Duke University.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"> </td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p> </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Annie Malknecht </strong><br/> Assistant to the President<strong><br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/Malknecht.JPG"/><br/> <br/> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:amalknecht@cgdev.org">amalknecht@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><strong><a name="AMAL"></a></strong></span>Annie Malknecht is the Assistant to the President at the Center for Global Development. Malknecht joins us from George Washington University, where she recently graduated with B.A. in international affairs and economics. While at GW, Malknecht spent a semester in Copenhagen, Denmark studying Economic Globalization and wrote an honors thesis her senior year on the failure of US activities in building democracy in Haiti. On top of her academics Malknecht served as an intern at the Center for American Progress, working on sustainable security and foreign aid reform and held another internship position at Women Thrive Worldwide, where she worked on global trade and agriculture issues. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Anna Moran<br/> </strong>Institutional Advancement Assistant<br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="118" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/moran.jpg"/><br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:amoran@cgdev.org">amoran@cgdev.org</a> <p> </p> </td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><strong><a name="AMORA"></a></strong></span>Anna Moran is the Institutional Advancement Assistant at the Center for Global Development. Originally from Manila, Philippines, Moran earned her Master’s Degree in Professional Communications from Clark University, where she also earned her BA in Political Science, International Relations and Communications. Prior to CGD, Moran interned in the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and Congressman James McGovern’s district office. </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Emily Putze</strong> <br/> Special Assistant to the President<br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/putze.jpg"/> <br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:eputze@cgdev.org">eputze@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="border-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><a name="EPUT"></a>Emily Putze is the Special Assistant to the President at the CGD. She graduated from Middlebury College in 2009 with a B.A. in political science and minors in both economics and African affairs. At Middlebury, Putze completed an independent study program on the Millennium Development Goals in Africa in Limpopo, South Africa and wrote her honors thesis on the importance of local variables in community-based malaria prevention and control programs. Putze also served as the president of Middlebury’s ONE chapter and was recognized as one of the top 100 student leaders in the country fighting global poverty and AIDS. Before coming to CGD, Putze worked as a Research Assistant at the American Enterprise Institute, where she continued to do research on international health and development policy issues.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Liza Reynolds</strong> <br/> Special Assistant to the Executive Office<br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/Reynolds.JPG"/> <br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:lreynolds@cgdev.org">lreynolds@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="border-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><a name="LREN"></a>Liza Reynolds is the special assistant to the executive office at CGD, supporting Todd Moss, Owen Barder and Lawrence MacDonald. After graduating from Middlebury College in 2009 with a B.A. in psychology, Reynolds spent four months volunteering and traveling in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa, which inspired her to move to DC to pursue a career in international development. She also spent a semester in Samoa, where she studied the effects of globalization and development on South Pacific Island cultures and communities. Most recently, Reynolds has been at GMMB, a cause-focused communications firm working on advocacy campaigns for a variety of non-profit organizations. </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom: 0px" colspan="2"> <h1>Communications and Outreach Staff</h1> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Lawrence MacDonald</strong> <br/> Vice President, Communications and Policy Outreach <br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/MacDonald.jpg"/> <br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:lmacdonald@cgdev.org">lmacdonald@cgdev.org</a> <br/> <br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2710">Expert page</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><a name="LMa"></a>Lawrence MacDonald works to increase the policy impact of CGD's research and analysis by leading an integrated communications program that includes publications, media relations, government and NGO outreach, events, and online engagement. Before joining the Center in October 2004, he was a senior communications officer at the World Bank where he provided strategic communications advice to chief economists, coordinated the preparation of research publications, and created the World Bank Research website. He was founding editor of the Bank's Policy Research Report series and launched two innovative yet enduring web tools: the Bank's Online Media Briefing Center and the International AIDS Economic Network (IAEN), a virtual community. Before that, he worked in East and Southeast Asia for 15 years as a reporter and editor for the Asian Wall Street Journal, Agence France Presse, and Asiaweek Magazine.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Sarah Jane Staats</strong> <br/> Director of Policy Outreach <br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/SJ_Staats_120.jpg"/> <br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:sjstaats@cgdev.org">sjstaats@cgdev.org</a> <br/> <br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/8092">Expert page</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><a name="SJST"></a>Sarah Jane Staats is responsible for engaging the development policy community—especially senior staff in the U.S. Congress, the administration, and policy experts in leading development advocacy NGOs—in the Center’s research and other programs. She ensures that the Center’s research and analysis is readily available to these and other influential audiences to increase CGD’s impact and influence. Staats also regularly briefs the Center’s experts on policy opportunities and ideas from the development policy community and helps shape the Center’s products so they are timely and relevant to current policy debates. She facilitates congressional testimony from the Center’s experts and supports the Center’s communications team in reaching other external audiences through an innovative online presence. Staats previously worked at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO); at InterAction, a coalition of 160 U.S.-based development and humanitarian NGOs; and with the ONE Campaign.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Jessica Brinton</strong><br/> Media Relations Coordinator<br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/j_brinton.JPG"/> <br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:jbrinton@cgdev.org">jbrinton@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><a name="JBRI"></a>Jessica Brinton serves as the Media Relations Coordinator for the Center for Global Development. Prior to joining the team at CGD Brinton worked as press secretary for Representative Nick Rahall (D-WV) on Capitol Hill and interned with the public affairs team at the United Nations Foundation focusing on global health and technology partnership initiatives. Brinton earned her Master’s in political science from the University of Illinois, and prior to coming to Washington worked as an appropriations analyst in the Illinois State Senate. As an undergraduate at Illinois State University, she founded “Redbirds for Relief,” a student international relief organization, and studied abroad in Uppsala, Sweden.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Kyla Lawrence</strong> <br/> Events Coordinator <br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/kylalawrence.JPG"/> <br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:klawrence@cgdev.org">klawrence@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><a name="KLAW"></a>Kyla Lawrence is CGD's Events Coordiantor. In this position she manages the Center’s 60+ events each year, including everything from small seminars to book launches to large public forums. Prior to joining the Center, she coordinated the logistics for fundraising events and provided administrative support to the Development Department at the League of Conservation Voters. Lawrence graduated from the University of Florida with a BA in Political Science with minors in History and African Studies.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Alexandra Gordon<br/> </strong>Communications Assistant <strong><br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/gordon.jpg"/><br/> <br/> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:agordon@cdev.org">agordon@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"> <p><a name="AGOR"></a>Alexandra Gordon is the Communications Assistant at CGD. She was previously an intern at the Latin America Working Group, an NGO coalition advocating for U.S. policies that promote human rights, justice and peace in the region. She also interned at the Inter-American Dialogue where she focused on economic growth and inequality in Latin America. Alexandra graduated from American University in May 2011 with a BA in Print Journalism and Spanish and Latin American Studies. As a student she spent a semester in Santiago, Chile and traveled to Guatemala as part of a group devoted to human rights and environmental justice.</p> </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Christopher Molitoris<br/> </strong>Policy Outreach Assistant <strong><br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/Molitoris2.jpg"/><br/> <br/> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:cmolitoris@cgdev.org">cmolitoris@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"> <p><a name="CMOL"></a>Christopher Molitoris serves as the Policy Outreach Assistant at the Center for Global Development. He previously worked as an intern at the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s congressional affairs department. Before that he researched water, sanitation, and governance structures in rural Moroccan communities on a Fulbright research grant. Molitoris graduated from the University of Scranton with a BS in international studies, political science, and philosophy, with minors in Arabic, French, and economics and is working on his MBA from the University of Scranton with a concentration in development economics.</p> </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>John Osterman <br/> </strong>Publications Manager <br/> <br/> <img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/osterman.JPG"/><br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:josterman@cgdev.org">josterman@cgdev.org</a> <p> </p> </td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><strong><a name="Jman"></a></strong></span>John Osterman manages the production of the Center's books, working papers, briefs, and other publications. A native of the metropolitan area, Osterman holds an MA in anthropology from the University of Virginia and a BA from the University of Mary Washington. Before his graduate studies, he was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mauritania and worked in mid-Atlantic archaeology.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Jenny Ottenhoff <br/> </strong>Policy Outreach Associate<br/> <br/> <img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/j_ottenhoff.JPG"/><br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:jottenhoff@cgdev.org">jottenhoff@cgdev.org</a> <p> </p> </td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><strong><a name="JOTT"></a></strong></span>Jenny Ottenhoff serves as the Policy Outreach Associate at the Center for Global Development, where she focuses on global health, trade, food and agriculture, foreign assistance and fragile states. Before joining CGD, Ottenhoff worked at the George Washington University Center for Global Health where she managed communication and policy outreach activities and supported the development of health training programs in Bangladesh, China and Kenya. Previously she worked on HIV/AIDS policy at the UN World Food Programme and lead grassroots advocacy efforts against the use of child soldiers at Resolve Uganda and Invisible Children. Ottenhoff received an MPH with a concentration in global health from the George Washington University and graduated summa cum laude with a BA in psychology from North Carolina State University. </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Michael Watkins <br/> </strong>Web Technology Manager<br/> <br/> <img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/watkins.jpg"/><br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:mwatkins@cgdev.org">mwatkins@cgdev.org</a> <p> </p> </td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><strong><a name="MWAT"></a></strong></span>Michael Watkins, CGD Web Technology Manager, has more than 15 years of information technology, software development and web technologies experience. As a U.S. Navy submarine veteran, Watkins draws upon his military experience in communications, operations and IT administration. Before coming to CGD he served as president and chief operation officer for a web technology and software vendor, while concurrently serving as acting president for an online payroll service provider he helped found. He holds a BS in accounting from George Mason University and is pursuing his MS in information systems management.</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom: 0px" colspan="2"> <h1>Finance and Administration Staff</h1> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Ellen Mackenzie <br/> </strong>Director of Finance and Operations<strong><br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/mackenzie2.jpg"/><br/> <br/> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:emackenzie@cgdev.org">emackenzie@cgdev.org</a> <p> </p> </td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><strong><a name="EMC"></a></strong></span>Ellen Mackenzie, director of finance and operations, serves as the Center’s treasurer while managing and leading the administrative, business planning, accounting, budgeting, human resource, and information technology efforts of the organization. Before joining CGD, Mackenzie was the director of finance and operations at the Global Fund for Children. She has more than 15 years of experience working with nonprofit organizations. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Luke Easley<br/> </strong>Finance and Human Resources Manager<br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="119" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/easley2.jpg"/><br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:leasley@cgdev.org">leasley@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><strong><a name="Luke"></a></strong></span>Luke Easley joined the Center in 2007 and serves as the Finance and Human Resources Manager. He has over eight years of experience in business operations and human resources and recently obtained a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) Certification for the Society for Human Resources Management. He is also a member of the HR Association of the National Capital Area.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Jeff Garland <br/> </strong>Information Technology Manager<strong><br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/jgarland22.jpg"/><br/> <br/> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:jgarland@cgdev.org">jgarland@cgdev.org</a> <p> </p> </td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><a name="jg"></a></span>Jeff Garland is the Information Technology Manager at the Center for Global Development. He has an educational background in Computer Electronics and has worked as a consultant for numerous Department of Defense migrations and upgrade projects. He worked on a network design team performing proprietery software installations on Capitol Hill. He has since held System Engineering positions for multiple nonprofits. Before joining CGD, Garland lead an IT team responsible for supporting the network infrastructure for a local nonprofit with five international field offices. Garland is a certified Systems Engineer and ITIL certified.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Sam Reyes <br/> </strong>Systems Administrator<br/> <br/> <img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/reyes2.JPG"/><br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:sreyes@cgdev.org">sreyes@cgdev.org</a> <p> </p> </td> <td style="border-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p> </p> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><a name="sreyes"></a></span>Sam Reyes is the Systems Administrator at the Center for Global Development. He worked for eight years as a systems administrator in a nonprofit organization in Northern Virginia. Before joining CGD, he spent a year teaching in El Salvador. Reyes has BA in communications from George Mason University and a master's in Management Information Systems. Sam also volunteers his time working with At-Risk youths in Northern Virginia.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Charlie Rong <br/> </strong>Office Manager<br/> <br/> <img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/Rong.PNG"/><br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:crong@cgdev.org">crong@cgdev.org</a> <p> </p> </td> <td style="border-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p> </p> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><a name="CRONG"></a></span>Charlie Rong is the office manager at the Center for Global Development. Prior to joining CGD, he worked at a visa agency helping clients secure visas and 3- step document authentication for use in China. In his spare time, Charlie tutors students in beginner’s Mandarin Chinese and volunteers for Food & Friends and DC Central Kitchen. Originally from Richmond, Virginia, Charlie graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BS in biology and from George Mason with a BA in psychology</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom: 0px" colspan="2"> <h1>Program Staff</h1> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Amanda Glassman<br/> </strong>Director of Global Health Policy, and Research Fellow<strong><br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/files/1424518_image_amanda_g.JPG"/><br/> <br/> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:aglassman@cgdev.org">aglassman@cgdev.org</a> <br/> <br/> <a href="/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424518/">Expert page</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p>Amanda Glassman is the Director of Global Health Policy and a research fellow at the Center for Global Development. She has 20 years of experience working on health and social protection policy and programs in Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Prior to her current position, Glassman was principal technical lead for health at the Inter-American Development Bank, where she led health economics and financing knowledge products and policy dialogue with member countries. From 2005-2007, Glassman was deputy director of the Global Health Financing Initiative at Brookings and carried out policy research on aid effectiveness and domestic financing issues in the health sector in low-income countries. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Connie Veillette <br/> </strong>Director, Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance<strong><br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/Veillette.jpg"/><br/> <br/> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:cveillette@cgdev.org">cveillette@cgdev.org</a> <br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424455">Expert page</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p>Connie Veillette is the Director of the Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Program at the Center for Global Development. Prior to coming to CGD, she served as a Senior Professional Staff Member for Senator Lugar (R-Ind) on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee until August 2010. Her portfolio included oversight of foreign assistance and USAID, and aid reform issues. Previously, she was a Specialist in Foreign Assistance at the Congressional Research Service, where she researched foreign aid issues and advised Congress on policy options. She began her public service working for a Member of the House Appropriations Committee in a variety of capacities, the last 10 years as Chief of Staff. She earned a B.A. in International Relations from Ohio University, an M.A. in Latin American Studies and a Ph.D. in Political Science, both from George Washington University. She is an adjunct professor at George Washington University where she has taught courses on International Relations, Legislative Politics, and Congress and Foreign Policy. She is an alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School Program for Senior Government Managers, and the Stennis Center Congressional Staff Fellows Program. In 1999, the Federal Republic of Germany awarded her the Verdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit). She hails from Ohio, is a long-suffering Cleveland Browns fan, and currently lives in northern Virginia with her husband and son.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Julia Clark<br/> </strong>Program Coordinator<br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/Clark.jpg"/><br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:jclark@cgdev.org">jclark@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><strong><a name="JCLA"></a></strong>Julia Clark works with senior fellows Alan Gelb and David Roodman on biometric technology in the developing world and the Commitment to Development Index, respectively. Before coming to CGD, she earned her MA in Governance and Development from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, UK. At IDS, she completed her dissertation on the potential democratic impact of anti-regime bloggers in Cuba, and worked extensively on issues related to service delivery, social accountability, and inclusion in local governance. Clark previously worked at The Rotary Foundation, coordinating grants for community development, education and health projects in South Asia and the Middle East, and supervising oversight and evaluation activities. She received her BA in International Relations and Spanish from Tufts University. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Danny Cutherell<br/> </strong>Policy Analyst<br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/cutherell.jpg"/><br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:jclark@cgdev.org">dcutherell@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><strong><a name="DCUT"></a></strong>Danny Cutherell is a Policy Analyst at the Center for Global Development. Prior to this, Cutherell worked as a consultant to several organizations, including the World Bank, the Center for Strategic and International studies and the Feinstein Center at Tufts University, while completing his MA at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Before beginning graduate school, Cutherell was based in Kabul, Afghanistan for two years, where he worked as the coordinator for governance and community development programs for the Aga Khan Foundation. Prior to his time in Afghanistan, he managed a community health program for the National Rural Support Program (NRSP) in Northern Pakistan. Cutherell’s research interests include community driven development, sub-national governance, and security issues in South and Central Asia.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Casey Dunning<br/> </strong>Policy Analyst<strong><br/> <br/> <img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/dunning.JPG"/><br/> <br/> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:cdunning@cgdev.org">cdunning@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><a name="CADU"></a></span>Casey Dunning supports the dialogue and analysis on U.S. foreign assistance innovations and reform in the Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Program. Before joining CGD, Dunning worked on gender and rule of law programs in Liberia with Emory University’s Institute for Developing Nations. She interned as a research assistant with the Carter Center and the International Rescue Committee and studied at Oxford University and Trinity College, Dublin. Dunning graduated summa cum laude from Emory University in international studies with a specialization in political economy.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Kate McQueston<br/> </strong>Program Coordinator<br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/McQueston.JPG"/><br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:kmcqueston@cgdev.org">kmcqueston@cgdev.org</a> <p> </p> </td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><strong><a name="KMcQ"></a></strong></span>Kate McQueston joined CGD in June of 2011 as a program coordinator to the global health policy team. Before joining the Center, she received her MPH from Dartmouth College, where she researched cost-effectiveness and quality improvement in both clinical and global health settings. Additionally, she interned at the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, where her work focused on quality improvement techniques for use in HIV prevention. Previously, she worked as program assistant with the World Justice Project in Washington, DC. She received her B.A. from the University of Virginia.</p> </td> </tr> <td style="border-bottom: px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Rita Perakis</strong> <br/> Research Associate<br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/perakis.jpg"/> <br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:rperakis@cgdev.org">rperakis@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="border-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><a name="RPER"></a>Rita Perakis joined CGD in June 2010 and works on aid effectiveness initiatives. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs where she completed a Master's of Public Administration. During her master’s program, Perakis served as a consultant on an agribusiness development project for the Millennium Challenge Corporation and as an intern for the Education for Employment Foundation in Morocco. Previously, she worked for Seedco, the Council on Foreign Relations, the French Ministry of Education and Cultural Services, and the Carter Center. Perakis has a BA in international studies from Emory University.</p> </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom: 0px" colspan="2"> <h1>Research Assistants</h1> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Maria Alejandra Amado <br/> </strong>Research Assistant<br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/amado.jpg"/><br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:aamado@cgdev.org">aamado@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><strong><a name="MAAM"></a></strong>Maria Alejandra Amado is a Research Assistant for Liliana Rojas-Suarez. Prior to joining CGD she worked as a program coordinator for the Universidad del Pacifico’s research center on macroeconomic and financial topics, where she served as an assistant of various projects related to the analysis of long term economic growth in Peru, and the impact of taxation in mining and oil sectors in Peru, a project sponsored by the IDB. She has also worked as an intern in the Economic Research area of the Superintendency of Banking and Insurance of Peru. Maria Alejandra earned a BA and a Master in Economics at Universidad del Pacifico. Her master’s thesis, on the macroeconomic impact of banking and monetary policy rules, has been presented in seminars at the Central Bank of Peru, and at the Uruguayan Central Bank. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Ted Collins<br/> </strong>Research Assistant<br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/collins.jpg"/><br/> <br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:ecollins@cgdev.org">ecollins@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><strong><a name="TCOL"></a></strong>Ted Collins is a Research Assistant for Kim Elliott and William Savedoff. Prior to joining CGD, he was an Economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Collins recently earned an M.S. in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University, where he was also an econometrics tutor and teaching assistant in Macroeconomics. He studied Mathematical Economics and English at Marquette University. During graduate school, Collins interned at CGD, supporting Liliana Rojas-Suarez’s research of International Capital Requirements and Financial Regulatory Reform. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Denizhan Duran<br/> </strong>Research Assistant<strong><br/> <br/> <img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/duran.jpg"/><br/> <br/> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:dduran@cgdev.org">dduran@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><a name="DDUR"></a></span>Denizhan Duran works with research fellow Amanda Glassman, primarily focusing on priority-setting institutions, behavioral economics and aid effectiveness in global health. Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, Duran graduated cum laude from Middlebury College with a BA in economics and minors in political science and French. While at Middlebury, he wrote his honors thesis on evaluating the regional and gender-specific impact of the conditional cash transfer program in Turkey. He also spent a semester studying French and European Politics in Sciences Po, Paris.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Jonathan Karver <br/> </strong>Research Assistant<strong><br/> <br/> <img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/karver.JPG"/><br/> <br/> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:jkarver@cgdev.org">jkarver@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><strong><a name="JKAR"></a></strong></span>Jonathan Karver works with fellows Charles Kenny and Justin Sandefur on quality of life data, the progress of the Millennium Development Goals, and the analysis of law, development, and schooling from survey data for sub-Saharan Africa. He holds a B.A. in International Affairs and Latin American Studies from the George Washington University, and is currently finishing up a master’s thesis on access to credit in Mexico’s ejidos for a M.A. in Development Economics from ITAM in Mexico City. Karver has worked as a consulting data analyst for IFPRI and the World Bank, where he was responsible for managing and evaluating impact evaluation data for Comunidades Solidarias Rurales in El Salvador and a Global Scaling Up Handwashing Program.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Stephanie Majerowicz<br/> </strong>Research Assistant<strong><br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/Majerowicz2.JPG"/><br/> <br/> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:smajerowicz@cgdev.org">smajerowicz@cgdev.org</a> <p> </p> </td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><a name="SMAJ"></a></span>Stephanie Majerowicz supports the research of Todd Moss. Originally from Bogotá, Colombia, Majerowicz graduated from Stanford University with a BA in political science and a minor in economics. At Stanford, Majerowicz served as a research assistant for various projects relating to conflict and rebel groups in Africa and Latin America, and received a grant to undertake an independent research project on democratic institutions and conflict in Lima, Perú. Before joining CGD, Majerowicz worked at the Inter-American Dialogue interning with their economics and trade program.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Owen McCarthy <br/> </strong>Research Assistant<strong><br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/Owen_McCarthy-120.jpg"/><br/> <br/> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:omccarthy@cgdev.org">omccarthy@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><a name="OWMC"></a></span>Owen McCarthy is a Research Assistant at the Center for Global Development. Before arriving at CGD, he was a student at Boston University where he earned a BA in political science with a minor in economics. While at BU, he was a research assistant for a number of projects, dealing variously with the determinants of British colonialism and the economics of rural Bengali potato markets.</p> </td> </tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Will McKitterick<br/> </strong>Research Assistant<strong><br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/McKitterick.JPG"/><br/> <br/> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:wmckitterick@cgdev.org">wmckitterick@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"> <p><a name="WMcK"></a>Will McKitterick works with Connie Veillette on the Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Program. Prior to being a research assistant, McKitterick was CGD's communications assistant. Before joining CGD, McKitterick worked as the communications and development intern at Jubilee USA, an advocacy network working to cancel the debt of heavily indebted poor countries. McKitterick graduated from Clark University in May 2010 with a BA in political science and a minor in international development. He also studied abroad for a year at the London School of Economics where he focused on foreign policy analysis and European political institutions.</p> </span></td> </tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Rachel Silverman<br/> </strong>Research Assistant<strong><br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/silverman.jpg"/><br/> <br/> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:rsilverman@cgdev.org">rsilverman@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><a name="RSIL"></a></span>Rachel Silverman works as a research assistant for the global health team. Prior to joining CGD in August 2011, Silverman spent two years with the National Democratic Institute, where she worked on democratic development initiatives in Kosovo and a program to increase political participation among Europe’s Roma minority. Previously, Silverman also served as a research assistant at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, where she investigated the effect of international assistance on democratic transitions. Originally from the New York area, Silverman graduated from Stanford University in 2009 with a B.A. in International Relations and Economics.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Ross Thuotte <br/> </strong>Research Assistant<strong><br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/Thuotte.JPG"/><br/> <br/> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:rthuotte@cgdev.org">rthuotte@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><a name="RTHU"></a></span>Ross Thuotte supports the research of senior fellows Todd Moss and Vijaya Ramachandran, focusing on African economic policy and private sector development. Before joining CGD, he spent two summers in Rwanda co-coordinating and teaching an introductory course on business and entrepreneurship. Thuotte is proficient in French and has conducted field research in Senegal. A Tufts University graduate (cum laude) with a BA in International Relations, Thuotte wrote his honors thesis on Regional Integration and Regional Financial Institutions in West Africa.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Tejaswi Velayudhan <br/> </strong>Research Assistant<strong><br/> <br/> <strong><img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/Velayudhan.JPG"/></strong><br/> <br/> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:tvelayudhan@cgdev.org">tvelayudhan@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><a name="TVEL"></a></span>Tejaswi Velayudhan supports the research of senior fellows Michael Clemens and Mead Over. She graduated from Wellesley College in 2010 with majors in mathematics and economics, and wrote her thesis on contraceptive choice and its effects on birth spacing among Bangladeshi and Indian women. At Wellesley, she served as both a tutor for an undergraduate econometrics class and as a research assistant for Prof. David Lindauer on his textbook Economics of Development. She also spent a year studying at the London School of Economics.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px" valign="middle" width="130"><strong>Julie Walz <br/> </strong>Research Assistant<strong><br/> <br/> <img alt="" width="120" height="120" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314im_/http://www.cgdev.org/userfiles/image/staff-page/Walz.JPG"/><br/> <br/> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106195314/mailto:jwalz@cgdev.org">jwalz@cgdev.org</a></td> <td style="padding-left: 20px" valign="middle" width="500"> <p><span style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px"><a name="JWAL"></a></span>Julie Walz works with Vijaya Ramachandran on topics including private sector development, fragile states, and food security. Before joining CGD, Walz worked in rural South Africa with the non-profit Think Impact and is the co-founder of the Mundzuku Foundation Scholarship Project which aims to provide South African youth with access to a university education. Walz has also worked with a local women’s health organization in the Dominican Republic and has interned with the International Crisis Group in DC. 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