Nancy Birdsall
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Born | 1946 (age 74–75) |
Education | Boston College (BA) Johns Hopkins University (MA) Yale University (PhD) |
Nancy Birdsall (born 6 February 1946)[1] is the founding president of the Center for Global Development (CGD) in Washington, DC, USA, and former executive vice-president of the Inter-American Development Bank. She co-founded CGD in November 2001 with C. Fred Bergsten and Edward W. Scott Jr.[2] and served as president until 2016.[3] Prior to becoming the President of CGD, 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, At the Inter-American Development Bank, the largest of the regional development banks, 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.
Birdsall is the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books and over 100 articles in scholarly journals and monographs, published in English and Spanish. Shorter pieces of her writing have appeared in dozens of U.S. and Latin American newspapers and periodicals.
Birdsall's has been researching and writing about the issue of economic development for more than 25 years. Her most recent work concentrates on the relationship between income distribution and economic growth and the role of regional public goods in development.
Education[]
Birdsall received a PhD in Economics from Yale University in 1979. She also holds an M.A. in International Relations from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University that she received in 1969. She earned a B.A. in American Studies from Newton College of the Sacred Heart of Boston College in 1967.
Background[]
Birdsall served for three years as Senior Associate and Director of the Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace with a focus on issues of globalization and inequality, as well as on the reform of the international financial institutions.
In November 2001, Birdsall co-founded the Center for Global Development (CGD)—just two months after September 11 attacks on the United States[4]—with C. Fred Bergsten and Edward W. Scott Jr.[2] In a 2016 interview, Birdsell said that the establishment of the CGD coincided "with a shift in thinking among US politicians" in which they began to accept the idea that nurturing stable and prosperous countries overseas, would result in "direct benefits" to the United States—an idea that underpinned the work of the CGD.[4]
She served as CGD president until 2016 and remained as Senior Fellow and President Emeritus.[1]
In 2006 Birdsall published the online version of Rescuing the World Bank: A CGD Working Group Report and Selected Essays.[5]
Birdsall was the co-author of the 2014 Towards a Better Global Economy Policy Implications for Citizens Worldwide in the 21st Century, published by Oxford University Press.[6]
In 2011, she co-authored the Foreign Affairs article, "The Post-Washington Consensus: Development after the Crisis", with the author of The End of History—Francis Fukuyama—in which they predicted that the financial crisis marked the "end of American economic dominance in global affairs."[7] They wrote that the November 2008 meeting of G20 heads of state—which unlike the G7—includes emerging BRIC countries. The inaugural 2008 meeting in Washington, D.C., in which the G20 coordinated a "global stimulus program", became an "established international institution."[7]
A 2012 Washington Post article cited Birdsall, who called on the World Bank to develop a "larger and clearer mandate." She said that the wealthier developing nations should lead the World Bank's transformation into an institution that "could become the focal point for projects to cope with climate change or other major risks to the "global commons." If it failed to do so, it would "gradually become merely one of many aid agencies dealing with a smaller and smaller group of low-income fragile states."[8]
Personal[]
Birdsall has two daughters and one son.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Nancy Birdsall", CGD, Profile, archived from the original on 19 August 2013, retrieved 24 February 2020
- ^ Jump up to: a b Center for Global Development : About CGD
- ^ "Nancy Birdsall". Center for Global Development. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Mirchandani, Rajesh (13 December 2016). "Development and the New Politics – Nancy Birdsall's Final Podcast as CGD President". Center For Global Development. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
- ^ Birdsall, Nancy (1 June 2006). "Rescuing the World Bank: A CGD Working Group Report and Selected Essays" (PDF). Retrieved 24 February 2020.
- ^ Allen, Franklin; Behrman, Jere R; Birdsall, Nancy; Fardoust, Shahrokh; Rodrik, Dani; Steer, Andrew; Subramanian, Arvind (2014). Towards a Better Global Economy Policy Implications for Citizens Worldwide in the 21st Century. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-872345-5.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Birdsall, Nancy; Fukuyama, Francis (3 March 2011). "The Post-Washington Consensus: Development after the Crisis". Foreign Affairs and Center for Global Development. Working Paper. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
- ^ Schneider, Howard (19 March 2012). "In a globalized world, what role for the World Bank?". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
External links[]
- Nancy Birdsall at the Center for Global Development (CGD)
- Graham, Carol; Birdsall, Nancy; Pettinato, Stefano (August 2000). "Stuck in the Tunnel: Is Globalization Muddling the Middle Class?". 14. Working Paper. Center on Social and Economic Dynamics.
- Birdsall, Nancy, ed. (2008). The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President. CGD. ISBN 9781933286242.
- Birdsall, Nancy; Rodrik, Dani; Subramanian, Arvind (July 2005). "How to Help Poor Countries". Foreign Affairs. Council on Foreign Relations. 84 (4): 136. doi:10.2307/20034426. JSTOR 20034426.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- 1946 births
- Center for Global Development
- Development economists
- Living people
- Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies alumni
- Yale University alumni