“The effectiveness of international advocacy NGOs in influencing transnational institutions or policies depends in significant measure on their capacity to argue persuasively for their own accountability and legitimacy.”
- L. David Brown, Alnoor Ebrahim, and Srilatha Batliwala,
Governing International NGOs and Networks, December 2010
L. David
Brown
Senior Research Fellow
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Office Address
Belfer-126
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 143
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-496-2381
Fax: 617-495-0996
Email: L._David_Brown@hks.harvard.edu
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L. David Brown is a senior research fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations who conducts research on how international advocacy organizations and networks govern themselves and engage in effective advocacy. He also participates in the Center’s research on civil society organizations in China, examining how experiences from other contexts can be adapted to strengthen their contributions to social development and problem-solving.
Professor Brown retired from the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School in 2009, after a decade as a lecturer in public policy and coordinator of international programs at the Hauser Center. Prior to his appointment at Harvard, he was professor of organizational behavior at Boston University and served as president of the Institute for Development Research. His research and consulting has focused on institutional strategy and capacity building that foster sustainable development and social transformation, particularly for civil society organizations and networks.
He has written Creating Credibility: Legitimacy and Accountability for Transnational Civil Society (Kumarian Press, 2008) and edited Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction (with Srilatha Batliwala, Kumarian Press, 2006), Practice-Research Engagement for Civil Society in a Globalizing World (Hauser Center and CIVICUS, 2001), and The Struggle for Accountability: NGOs, Social Movements and the World Bank (with Jonathan Fox, MIT Press, 1998). He has been a Fulbright lecturer in India and a Peace Corps community organizer in Ethiopia.
Senior Research Fellow
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Office Address
Belfer-126
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 143
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-496-2381
Fax: 617-495-0996
Email: L._David_Brown@hks.harvard.edu
HKS Directory Info
Profile
L. David Brown is a senior research fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations who conducts research on how international advocacy organizations and networks govern themselves and engage in effective advocacy. He also participates in the Center’s research on civil society organizations in China, examining how experiences from other contexts can be adapted to strengthen their contributions to social development and problem-solving.
Professor Brown retired from the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School in 2009, after a decade as a lecturer in public policy and coordinator of international programs at the Hauser Center. Prior to his appointment at Harvard, he was professor of organizational behavior at Boston University and served as president of the Institute for Development Research. His research and consulting has focused on institutional strategy and capacity building that foster sustainable development and social transformation, particularly for civil society organizations and networks.
He has written Creating Credibility: Legitimacy and Accountability for Transnational Civil Society (Kumarian Press, 2008) and edited Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction (with Srilatha Batliwala, Kumarian Press, 2006), Practice-Research Engagement for Civil Society in a Globalizing World (Hauser Center and CIVICUS, 2001), and The Struggle for Accountability: NGOs, Social Movements and the World Bank (with Jonathan Fox, MIT Press, 1998). He has been a Fulbright lecturer in India and a Peace Corps community organizer in Ethiopia.
