Ms Nancy Birdsall

Founding President of the Center for Global Development

Research Assistant, Overseas Liaison Committee of the American Council on Education, 1969-70; Project Executive, Overseas Liaison Committee of the American Council on Education, 1971; Project Director, TransCentury Corporation, 1971-72; Social Science Analyst, Smithsonian Institution, 1972-76;
World Bank: Economist, Development Economics Department, 1979-82; Staff Director, World Development Report 1984, 1983-84; Senior Economist, Country Policy Department, 1982-84; Chief, Policy and Research Division, Health and Nutrition Dept,1984-87; Chief, Population and Human Resources Operations Division, 1987-90; Chief, Environment Division, Latin America Region, 1990-91; Director, Policy Research Dept, 1991-93
Executive Vice President, Inter-American Development Bank, 1993-98; Senior Associate and Director, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1998-2001; President, Center for Global Development, 2001 to date.