- Peter D. Bell MPA '64 - Senior Research Fellow, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University; former president, CARE USA. Bell has been a senior research fellow at Harvard’s Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations since September 2007. While there, he has also co-chaired the Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS and chairs the NGO Leaders Forum, which brings together the heads of major U.S.-based international relief and development NGOs. Previously, he served for ten years as president of CARE USA, one of the world’s largest private relief and development organizations. Bell has a long-standing commitment to fighting poverty, advancing human rights and preventing violent conflict. As president of The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation for nine years before joining CARE, he sought to improve conditions for people who are poor and disadvantaged, primarily in the United States. Bell was a senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1984 to 1986, and president of the Inter-American Foundation, which supports grassroots development in Latin America and the Caribbean, from 1980 to 1983. He served as Deputy Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare during the Carter Administration. Earlier, he worked for the Ford Foundation for 12 years, including ten with its Latin American program.
- Joshua Bolten ’76 - John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor, Woodrow Wilson School. Joshua Bolten previously worked in the White House for the eight years of President George W. Bush’s term, beginning in January 2001 as deputy chief of staff for policy. Upon confirmation by the Senate in June 2003, Bolten joined the President’s Cabinet as director of the Office of Management and Budget. And from April 2006 through January 2009, he served as White House chief of staff. Prior to joining the White House, Bolten was policy director of the Bush 2000 presidential campaign. From 1994-99, Bolten was executive director, Legal & Government Affairs, for Goldman Sachs International in London. Bolten also served all four years in the administration of President George H.W. Bush, three of them as general counsel to the US Trade Representative. Earlier in his career, he was international trade counsel to the US Senate Finance Committee, in private law practice with O’Melveny & Myers, and an attorney in the US State Department’s legal office. Bolten is currently co-chair of the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund and serves on the boards of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the ONE Campaign.
- Angus S. Deaton - Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs; Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School. Deaton’s main interests are in health and development. He has taught at Cambridge University and at the University of Bristol. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the British Academy, and of the Econometric Society, and was the first recipient of the Society’s Frisch Medal for Applied Econometrics. Deaton was recently named a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association and a corresponding fellow at the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His current pursuits include research on poverty and inequality around the world, with a particular focus on India. He also works on the determinants of health, particularly the relationship between income and health, both domestically and internationally. Deaton was the former president of the American Economic Association.
- Deborah Derrick MPA ’86 – Senior Program Officer, Global Health Policy and Advocacy, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Deborah Derrick is a senior program officer for Global Health Policy and Advocacy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, working on U.S. government relations. Prior to this, she served as executive director of the Better World Campaign, an advocacy organization that works on behalf of the United Nations. Derrick has been a senior legislative advisor at the U.S. State Department, a legislative aide in three House and Senate offices, and a television producer for C-SPAN. She is also the author of The Very Thing that Made Us, a non-fiction book about the veterans of a U.S. Navy ship. She has a Master’s degree in public policy from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School and a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Duke University.
- Ann E. Harrison Ph.D. '91 – Director, Development Policy, Development Research Group, World Bank. Harrison is the director of development policy in the Development Research Group. Prior to assuming this position in January 2010, she was the manager of the Trade Team. Prior to joining the World Bank in 2009, Harrison was a professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and affiliated with the International Growth Centre in London. Harrison was in the Young Professional Program at the World Bank, and previously taught at Harvard and Columbia Business School at Columbia University. Her research is in the area of international trade, foreign investment, and economic development. She has analyzed the impact of globalization on domestic labor markets, the linkages between productivity and trade reform, and the impact of foreign investment on host countries. Her publications have appeared in top economic journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of International Economics, The Review of Economics and Statistics and others.
- Howard Pack - Professor of Business and Public Policy, Economics and Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Pack has been a professor of economics and professor of business and public policy at the Wharton School since 1986, and professor of management there since 1995. He was a consultant at a number of institutions including the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Agency for International Development, and the Overseas Development Council. He was a fellow at the Harry S. Truman Institute for Peace Research, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Research at the same university. He is co-author of The Arab Economies in a Changing World (2007), Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform (Columbia University Press, 2007), Industrial Policy in an Era of Globalization: Lessons from Asia (2003) and author of Productivity, Technology and Industrial Development (Oxford University Press, l987) and Structural Change and Economic Policy in Israel (Yale University Press, 1971).
- Hugh Price - John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor, Woodrow Wilson School; former president, CEO, National Urban League. Hugh Price served as president and CEO of the National Urban League from July 1994 until April 2003. After his tenure at the League, Price served for two years as senior advisor and co-chair of the Non-Profit and Philanthropy Practice Group at the global law firm of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary U.S. LLP. In 2006-07, he co-chaired the Commission on the Whole Child for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Earlier in his career Price served as the first executive director of the Black Coalition of New Haven; a member of the editorial board of The New York Times; and as senior vice president of WNET/Thirteen in New York, the nation’s largest public television station. He was also a vice president at the Rockefeller Foundation, overseeing its domestic investments to improve education for at-risk youth and increase opportunities for people of color.
- Timothy M. Reif ’80, MPA/JD '85 – General Counsel, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Reif is responsible for enforcement of all U.S. trade agreements, including in the World Trade Organization and U.S free trade agreements; providing legal counsel to the United States Trade Representative and U.S. negotiators on all new trade negotiations and the implementation of existing trade agreements; advising on trade legislation, trade remedies, administrative law and government ethics; and, managing the office of General Counsel. Reif has more than twenty years of experience in international trade law, policy and negotiations. Most recently, he was chief international trade counsel for the Committee on Ways and Means in the U.S. House of Representatives. From 1989 to 1993, Reif served as associate general counsel in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, where he was lead USTR negotiator for the Uruguay Round Antidumping Agreement, also negotiating provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and a number of bilateral agreements such as the U.S.-Japan Semiconductor Agreement (1991), and litigated or supervised the litigation of more than a dozen disputes in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and under U.S. free trade agreements.
- Nolan McCarty - Associate Dean, Woodrow Wilson School; Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs. Nolan McCarty’s research interests include U.S. politics, democratic political institutions, and political methodology. He is the recipient of the Robert Eckles Swain National Fellowship from the Hoover Institution and the John M. Olin Fellowship in Political Economy. McCarty is the co-author of two books: Political Game Theory (2006, Cambridge University Press with Adam Meirowitz) and Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches (2006, MIT Press with Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal). During academic year 2007-2008, he was the acting dean of the Woodrow Wilson School.
- Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80 - Bert G. Kerstetter ‘66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School; former director, policy planning, United States Department of State. From 2009-2011 Slaughter served as director of policy planning for the United States Department of State; the first woman to hold that position. She was also dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from 2002-2009. Slaughter came to the Woodrow Wilson School from Harvard Law School where she was the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law and director of the International Legal Studies Program. She is a former president of the American Society of International Law, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and served on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations. Slaughter has written widely on foreign policy and international security. Her most recent book is The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World. She is also the author of A New World Order, in which she identified transnational networks of government officials as an increasingly important component of global governance.
- Nicolas van de Walle ’90 - Professor, Department of Government; Director, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University. Nicolas van de Walle is a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development, and is the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and Director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University. He has published widely on democratization issues as well as on the politics of economic reform and on the effectiveness of foreign aid, with a special focus on Africa. In addition, van de Walle has worked extensively as a consultant for a variety of international and multilateral organizations, including the World Bank, USAID, and UNDP. His latest book is Overcoming Stagnation in Aid-Dependent Countries (Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, 2005) and is also the author of African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999 (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
- Jennifer A. Widner - Woodrow Wilson School Professor of Politics and International Affairs; Director, Bobst Center for Peace and Justice; Director, Innovations for Successful Societies-Institutions for Fragile States. Jennifer Widner’s research focuses on problems of democratization, law, and development, with particular attention to sub-Saharan Africa. Her most recent book is Building the Rule of Law (W. W. Norton), a study of courts and law in Africa and other developing country contexts. She has published articles on a variety of topics in Democratization, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Development Studies, Current History, Daedalus, the American Journal of International Law, and other publications. Widner is director of the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace & Justice and directs the Innovations for Successful Societies-Institutions for Fragile States, a research program co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and the Center for Peace and Justice. Innovations for Successful Societies chronicles the challenges reform leaders face in serving publics better and helps share solutions across boundaries.
- Dennis B. Whittle MPA '86 – Co-founder, CEO, GlobalGiving. Dennis Whittle co-founded GlobalGiving in late 2000. From 1997 to 2000, he co-led the World Bank's Corporate Strategy and Innovation units, including the team that created the Development Marketplace. From 1992-1997, he led a variety of initiatives in the Bank's Russia program, including housing reform and energy efficiency projects. From 1987-92, Whittle was an economist in the World Bank's Jakarta office advising the Indonesian Ministries of Finance and National Development, and managing projects in the agriculture and forestry sectors. Before joining the World Bank in 1986, he worked in the Philippines with the Asian Development Bank and USAID.
