GDN Board

Shanta Devarajan

Chair of the GDN Board | Professor of the Practice of Development at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Former Senior Director for Development Economics (DEC) and Acting Chief Economist at The World Bank

Mauricio Cárdenas

Mauricio Cárdenas is a Professor of Global Leadership at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, where he also directs the Master of Public Administration (MPA) in Global Leadership.

Marta Reynal-Querol

ICREA Research Professor at the Department of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), and Research Professor of the Barcelona School of Economics and director of IPEG

Patrick Guillaumont

President, Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International (FERDI)

Izumi Ohno

Senior Research Advisor to the JICA Ogata Research Institute and Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

Shenggen Fan

Chair Professor at the College of Economics and Management at China Agricultural University in Beijing

Ragui Assaad

Professor of Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs.

Christopher Afoke Isike

President of the African Association of Political Science (AAPS) and Professor of African Politics and International Relations, University of Pretoria, South Africa