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.

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
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
Kevin Croke
Associate Professor of Global Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Research Areas: Health; Political Economy; Service Delivery; Institutions
Karen Dynan
Professor of the Practice of Public Policy, HKS; Professor of the Practice of Economics, FAS
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas: Macroeconomic Policy; Household Economic Security; Household Finances; Safety Net Programs
Rema Hanna
Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas: Public Economics; Tax; Social Insurance; Transfers; Environment
Anders Jensen
Associate Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas: Tax Policy (Equity; Efficiency; Revenue); Global Macro-Historical Data; State Capacity; Technology
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
Dan Levy
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas: Education; Teaching and Learning; Education Technology; Program Evaluation; Impact Evaluation; RCTs; AI
Stephen Marks
Francois Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Research Areas: Global Health; Mental Health; Poverty; Tobacco Control; Biotechnology; Terrorism; Access to Medicines
Zoe Marks
Lecturer in Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas: Political Behavior; Conflict; Violence; Gender; Inequality
Margaret McConnell
Associate Professor of Global Health Economics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Research Areas: Maternal Health; Behavioral Economics; Intersection of Poverty and Health Behavior
Gautam Nair
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas: Political Economy and Behavior; Business-Government Relations; Clientelism; Distributive Politics; Social Protection
Carmen Reinhart
Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas: International Macroeconomics and Finance
Natalia Rigol
Buchanan Associate Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Research Areas: Microenterprises; Microfinance; Financial Inclusion; Health; Gender; Social Norms; Political Corruption; Agriculture