CID’s faculty affiliates embody the breadth and depth of international development research at Harvard. Faculty affiliates hail from across the University and work in every region of the world, on every topic in development.

Randall Akee
Julie Johnson Kidd Professor of Indigenous Governance and Development
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas: Indigenous Peoples Economic Development, Labor Economics, Income and Wealth Inequality, Children's Outcomes
Desmond Ang
Associate Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas: Race; Political Economy; Economic History
David Bloom
Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Research Areas: Population; Health; Labor; Education; Economic Growth
William Clark
Harvey Brooks Research Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas: Sustainable Development; Linking Knowledge with Action
David Deming
Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy, HKS; William Henry Bloomberg Professor of Economics, FAS; Professor of Education and Economics, HGSE
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas: Education; Skills; Technology; AI
Alejandro Ganimian
Visiting Associate Professor
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Research Areas: Development Economics; Education Policy; Impact Evaluation; Randomized Experiments; Measurement
Andrew Dean Ho
Charles William Eliot Professor of Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Research Areas: Education; Measurement; Testing; Psychometrics; Assessment; Policy; Accountability; Online Learning; MOOCs
Robert Jenkins
Lecturer on Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Research Areas: Addressing the learning crisis in the Global South; improving quality and access to learning in crisis settings
Juan Jimenez
Lecturer in Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas: Industrial Policy; Infrastructure Finance and Development; Education
Thomas Kane
Walter H. Gales Professor of Education and Economics
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Research Areas: Education Policy; Higher Education; School Accountability; Teaching Quality; Financial Aid for College
Asim Khwaja
Director, Center for International Development; Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas: Education; Finance; Institutions; Political Economy; Public Finance
Jimmy Kim
Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Research Areas: Education Policy; Literacy; Scale-Up of Innovations