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
Matthew Andrews
Edward S. Mason Senior Lecturer in International Development
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas: Public Policy Implementation; Governance; Public Finance; Economic Growth; Industrial Policy
Desmond Ang
Associate Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas: Race; Political Economy; Economic History
Rifat A. Atun
Professor of Global Health Systems
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Research Areas: Global Health; Health System Performance; Health System Reform; Innovation; Technology Startups; Venture Investment
Jie Bai
Associate Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas: Development; Trade; Industrial Organization; Agriculture
Augustin Bergeron
Assistant Professor of Economics
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Research Areas: Development Economics; Public Economics; Political Economy
Melani Cammett
Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Research Areas: Ethnic and Religious Politics; Intergroup Relations; Development
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
Kevin Croke
Assistant Professor of Global Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Research Areas: Health; Political Economy; Service Delivery; Institutions
Melissa Dell
Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Research Areas: Conflict; Political Economy; Structural Transformation
Rafael Di Tella
William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Research Areas: Political Economy; Beliefs; Crime; Corruption; Populism; Media
Mark Esposito
Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
Harvard Law School
Research Areas: Cluster Theory; Economic Development; Foresights & Future Options; Circular Economy; Geotech & Geopolitics; 4Ir
Natalia Garbiras-Díaz
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Research Areas: Political Economy of Development; Post-Conflict Transitions; Anti-Establishment Politics and Democratic Erosion