Steven Radelet

Steve Radelet holds the Donald F. McHenry Chair in Global Human Development and is Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Development at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Before joining Georgetown in 2012, he served as chief economist of USAID and senior advisor for development for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He has also served as economic advisor to President Ellen Johnson Sireleaf of LIberia and President Joyce Banda of Malawi. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Western Samoa with his wife and is the author of several books, including The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World.