CGD's Board of Directors is comprised of prominent individuals from the public and private sectors with a passionate commitment to development. The Board meets twice a year to review the Center’s activities and finances and to provide advice and counsel to the President. A subset of the Board, the Executive Committee, meets quarterly to provide ongoing oversight. The Board is responsible for the overall control of the Center’s property, funds, and affairs.
Edward W. Scott, Jr.
Founder, BEA Systems, Inc.; Co-Founder and Chair, Center for Global Development; Co-Founder, DATA (Debt, Aid and Trade for Africa); Founder and Chairman, Friends of the Global Fight
Bernard Aronson
Chairman, ACON Investments LLC; U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, 1989-93
C. Fred Bergsten
Co-Founder and Member of the Executive Committee, Center for Global Development; Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics; Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, 1977-81
Nancy Birdsall
President and Co-Founder, Center for Global Development; former Executive Vice-President, Inter-American Development Bank
Jessica P. Einhorn
Dean, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University
David Gergen
Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University; Editor-at-Large at U.S. News and World Report; Former advisor to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton
Thomas R. Gibian
Chief Executive Officer, Emerging Capital Partners
Bruns Grayson
Bruns Grayson is Managing Partner of ABS Ventures in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Jose Angel Gurria Treviño
Secretary-General for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Chair, External Advisory Group, Inter-American Development Bank; former Minister of Finance and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mexico
James A. Harmon
Founder of Harmon & Co; former Chairman, Chairman of the Board of the World Resources Institute (WRI); President and CEO of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (until 2001); former Chairman and CEO of Schroder Wertheim & Co.
Enrique V. Iglesias
Ibero-American General Secretary, former President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Kassahun Kebede
Founder and Managing Partner of Panton Capital Group; President and Chairman of the Board of the Fistula Foundation; former head of Global Equity Derivatives at Deutsche Bank
Susan B. Levine
Vice Chair of Board of Directors; Director, Business Development, of Marshfield Associates; Co-founder, Quince Hill Partners, LLC; Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for International Development, Debt, and Environmental Policy, 1993-95
M. Peter McPherson
Chairman of the Board, Dow Jones & Company; President of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC), President-Emeritus of Michigan State University (MSU); Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1981-87
Paul H. O'Neill
Former US Treasury Secretary; Chief Executive Officer of the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative (PRHI)
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Managing Director of the World Bank; Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Brookings Institution; former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Minister of Finance and Economy of Nigeria
John T. Reid
Former Chief Technology Officer, Colgate Palmolive; former CEO, CityQuicker
Dani Rodrik (ex officio)
Chairman, Center for Global Development Research and Program Advisory Committee; Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
William D. Ruckelshaus
Strategic Director, Madrona Venture Group, and Chairman, World Resources Institute; former Chairman and CEO, Browning-Ferris Industries, Inc.; former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1970-73 and 1983-85)
S. Jacob Scherr
Senior Attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC); Director of NRDC's International Program and a Director of the NRDC BioGems Initiative
Belinda Stronach
Executive Vice- Chairman, Magna International Inc. and Co-Founder, Spread the Net
Lawrence H. Summers (on leave)
Director, White House’s National Economic Council
Adam Waldman
President, The Endeavor Group
Honorary Members
John L. Hennessy
President, Stanford University; former Provost, Stanford University; co-founder, MIPS Technologies
Sir Colin Lucas
Vice Chancellor, University of Oxford (UK); former Master of Balliol College, Oxford; former Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago
Robert S. McNamara
Former President of The World Bank Group; Former Secretary of Defense
Amartya K. Sen
Nobel Laureate; Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University; Lamont University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Nobel Laureate; Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University; Chairman, White House Council of Economic Advisors, 1993-97; former Chief Economist, World Bank
