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Jim Kolbe joined The German Marshall Fund as a Senior Transatlantic Fellow to work on issues related to international trade and development and is spearheading GMF’s Transatlantic Taskforce on Development. Prior to GMF, Mr. Kolbe spent 22 years in Congress, where he served on the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives, and, for the last six years, chaired the Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Agencies subcommittee. |
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Gunilla Carlsson is the Minister for International Development Cooperation at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Minister Carlsson served in the Swedish Parliament from 2002-2006 in several capacities, notably as Deputy Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and as Deputy Member of the Committee on EU Affairs. From 1995-2002, she was elected to the European Parliament and later served in the European Parliament as Vice Chair of the European People’s Party (EPP) from 2004-2006. |
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J. Brian Atwood is the Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. He served for six years as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and was Under Secretary of State for Management during the Administration of President William Clinton. He also served on the Secretary General's panel on UN peace operations in 2001-02.
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Rodney Bent is Deputy Chief Executive Officer for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). Prior to joining MCC in 2005, Mr. Bent was a staff member of the House Appropriations Committee, where he recommended appropriation levels and policies for various U.S. agencies. He was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service. He also worked at the Office of Management and Budget and the US Treasury Department. |
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Nancy Birdsall is the founding president of the Center for Global Development (CGD). Prior to launching CGD, Dr. Birdsall served as Senior Associate and Director of the Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Executive Vice-President of the Inter-American Development Bank, and in several capacities at the World Bank.
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Jamie Drummond is Executive Director and Global Strategy for ONE, which merged with DATA – Debt, AIDS, Trade, and Africa in early 2008. He co-founded DATA with Bono and Bobby Shriver and others in 2002 and ONE with partners in 2004. ONE’'s mission is to help African and other developing countries beat AIDS and achieve the Millennium Goals by creating a supportive movement, especially in the United States and Europe.
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Robert C. Fisher is a Managing Director at Hills & Company, International Consultants. He is responsible for assisting clients with trade and investment issues, as well as supporting trade capacity building projects. He has 30 years’ experience in trade and economic policy, including 10 years in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
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Robert Greenhill joined the World Economic Forum as Chief Business Officer in August 2008. Prior to that, he was President of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), a post he held since May 2005. Focusing full-time on international public policy, Mr. Greenhill joined the International Development Research Centre as Senior Visiting Executive in 2004. |
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Michael Hofmann is Executive Director for Germany at the World Bank. Prior to his appointment in 2007, Mr. Hofmann was Director General was Director General in the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Previously a research fellow at the German Development Institute, he has written extensively on development issues. |
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Geoffrey Lamb is currently Managing Director for Public Policy for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Previously, he was Vice President, Concessional Finance and Global Partnerships at the World Bank where he chaired a series of international negotiations through which governments provided the largest Bank increase in decades for the world's poorest countries. |
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Carol Lancaster is Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies and Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She was the Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1993 to 1996. Previously, she worked at the U.S. State Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. |
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William C. Lane is a leading business advocate for free trade and global engagement in Washington DC. He has been with Caterpillar since 1975 and has been the company’s Washington Director for Government Affairs since 1998. Mr. Lane is a Co-Chair of the U.S. Latin America Trade Coalition and co-president of the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign and served on the HELP Commission in 2005.
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Max Lawson is a senior policy adviser at Oxfam Great Britain, and also leads Oxfam International's policy work on aid and development finance. In his work for campaigns and advocacy, he has specialised in the World Bank and IMF, and also on the G8, and was heavily involved in the Make Poverty History campaign in 2005. |
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Mark Lowcock is one of the five executives on the DfID Management Board. He was appointed Director General, Country Programmes in April 2008 and is responsible for DfID’s programmes in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Latin America with an annual budget of £2.7 billion, managed by 1500 staff in over 50 countries. He is a qualified accountant. |
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Richard Manning was Chair of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development’s (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) from June 2003 until January 2008. Mr. Manning spent nearly 40 years working for the UK Department for International Development, including as Director General for Policy. |
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Simon Maxwell became Director of the Overseas Development Institute in 1997. An economist by training, Mr. Maxwell worked overseas for ten years, in Kenya and India for UNDP, and in Bolivia for UKODA; and for 16 years at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, latterly as Programme Manager for Poverty, Food Security and the Environment. |
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Reverend James L. McDonald is Vice President for Policy and Program at Bread for the World where he manages the organization’s work on policy issues and their programs of advocacy, education and social change. He led Bread for the World’s effort to secure debt relief for the world's poorest countries. He was previously an international policy analyst. |
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Andrew S. Natsios is a Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. Natsios served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development from 2001 to January 2006. In addition to his teaching at Georgetown, he serves as President Bush’s Special Envoy to Sudan to deal with the crisis in Darfur.
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Gerry Salole is currently the Chief Executive of the European Foundation Centre (EFC) as well as the Chairperson of TrustAfrica. Previous roles include representing the Southern Africa Office of the Ford Foundation based in Johannesburg and as the Director of the Department of Programme Documentation and Communication of the Bernard van Leer Foundation. |
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Jean-Michel Severino is the Chief Executive of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) since 2001. Upon graduating from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, he worked as Director for International Development at the French Ministry of Cooperation. He then served as Director for Central Europe and Vice President for Asia at the World Bank. |
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Smita Singh is the Director of the Global Development Program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Ms. Singh is developing the Foundation's new philanthropic program to address major global development challenges. Prior to joining the Foundation, she was a Scholar at the Harvard Academy of International and Area Studies. |
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Scott Spangler served as Assistant Administrator for Africa and subsequently as Associate Administrator of USAID in 1990-92. He served as Acting USAID Administrator for the latter part of 1992. Recently, he was majority owner and Chairman of the Board of Chemonics International and was formerly Vice-Chairman of Save the Children USA. |
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Noam Unger is the Policy Director of the Brookings Institution's Foreign Assistance Reform Project. Mr. Unger served from 2003-2007 at the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development, where he worked on humanitarian affairs, reconstruction, conflict transformation, and interagency coordination.
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Paulus Verschuren is Senior Director of the Partnership Development Group at Unilever. The mission of this group is to develop global nutrition and health partnerships creating social and business value. Paulus is presently Board member of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and chairman of the GAIN Business Alliance.
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The following people helped to contribute to the workstreams, often alongside a Taskforce member. We thank them for their support. |
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Sam Bickersteth is the Head of Policy for Oxfam United Kingdom’s programs in global strategy development and research. This involves supporting the development of global strategy for Oxfam’s operations in 70 countries, and its campaigning and advocacy work with 13 other Oxfam affiliates based in northern and southern capitals.
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Dr. Alison Evans is Director of Programmes for Poverty and Public Policy at the Overseas Development Institute. The Poverty & Public Policy Group hosts work on aid effectiveness, aid architecture, aid agency incentives and practices. An economist by training, Alison has worked on aid and aid effectiveness issues for 20 years, including six years at the World Bank.
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Sheila Herrling is an expert on development policy and foreign assistance at the Center for Global Development. She manages the Center's new Modernizing U.S. Foreign Assistance Initiative and the Millennium Challenge Account Monitor Initiative, and is a regular contributor to the MCA Monitor and Views from the Center blogs.
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Willem-Jan Laan, Director Global External Affairs Unilever, joined Unilever in 1995 as Agricultural Economic Adviser. Before joining Unilever he headed the Trade Policy Division of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture. He holds a number of chairman positions, including the Chair of the Committee of Multilateral Trade Policy of VNO-NCW.
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Mr. Lafourcade is an international consultant working for private and public international and bilateral development institutions. Among other assignments, he is presently an adviser to the Managing Director of the Agence Française de Développement in Paris. He spent 30 years with the World Bank (1973-2002) where he accumulated extensive managerial and operational experience in development matters.
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Ayah Mahgoub is the Program Coordinator for Nancy Birdsall. She works on aid effectiveness initiatives including the Cash on Delivery Aid and Measuring the Quality of Aid projects. She joined the Center for Global Development in August 2008 after completing a public interest fellowship at Phipps Community Development Corporation.
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Olivier Ray works with Jean-Michel Severino at the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), helping him with research and publications. Before joining AFD he worked for the United Nation’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations and Security Council Report, on questions of development, conflict prevention and post-conflict recovery.
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Sevdalina Rukanova is responsible for the development of the European Foundation Centre (EFC) International Programmes & EFC Interest Groups and Funder Networks since 2002. She has extensive knowledge on philanthropy in Europe and on practice and trends in international funding by European foundations.
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As a founding member of DATA, Erin Thornton has helped to define the organization's agenda since it began in 2002, and continues to do the same as the Global Policy Director for ONE since its merger with DATA in early 2008. Prior to joining the organization, Erin worked as a country risk analyst for Africa at the Export-Import Bank and in the International Health Affairs office at the State Department.
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Kate Vyborny was a Program Coordinator for Nancy Birdsall, the President of Global Development, where she managed projects on aid effectiveness, including "cash on delivery" aid and measuring the quality of aid. She is now a graduate student in economics at the University of Oxford.
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Alice Poole is a Transatlantic Fellow at GMF, where she manages the Transatlantic Taskforce on Development, and has principal responsibility for compiling the report. Previously, she managed complex public and private sector projects as a management consultant in London from 2000-2006. Alice has also worked on international development issues in Geneva and in Washington, DC.
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Mats Hårsmar is Chief Analyst at the Division for Development Policies at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He is the primary staff member at the Ministry for the Transatlantic Taskforce on Development. Previously, he served as Head Secretary of the Expert Group on Development Issues, EGDI, which was an independent research group, with its secretariat placed within the Ministry.
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The Honorable Jim Kolbe
