Dr. Nancy Birdsall

Dr. Nancy Birdsall is the founding President of the Center for Global Development. Prior to launching the center, she served for three years as Senior Associate and Director of the Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where her work focused on issues of globalization and inequality, as well as on the reform of the international financial institutions. From 1993 to 1998, Dr. Birdsall was Executive Vice-President of the Inter-American Development Bank where she oversaw a $30 billion public and private loan portfolio. Prior to this Dr. Birdsall spent 14 years in research, policy, and management positions at the World Bank, most recently as Director of the Policy Research Department. She is the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books and monographs, including, most recently, "Population Matters: Demographic Change," "Economic Growth and Poverty in the Developing World," "Washington Contentious: Economic Policies for Social Equity in Latin America, and New Markets," "New Opportunities? Economic and Social Mobility in a Changing World." Dr. Birdsall received a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.