George Ingram

George Ingram

George Ingram is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; a board member of MFAN and USGLC and chair of Friends of Publish What You Fund; with a career in development spanning U.S. Congress, USAID, and civil society.

Latest Articles

Opinion: 5 next steps for USAID now that policy and budget are merged

Opinion: 5 next steps for USAID now that policy and budget are merged

almost 2 years ago // The Future of US Aid

To maximize the potential of USAID’s newly instituted Bureau for Planning, Learning and Resource Management, start with these five steps.

Opinion: As advocates for transparency, we’re owning up to internal challenges

Opinion: As advocates for transparency, we’re owning up to internal challenges

about 7 years ago // Transparency and accountability

After discovering financial trouble within its organization, MFAN is looking inward to reboot its reporting and accounting systems.

Opinion: Uniting policy, resources, and performance for better decision-making at USAID

Opinion: Uniting policy, resources, and performance for better decision-making at USAID

about 7 years ago // The future of USAID

The three most significant objectives of consolidation at USAID are to align resources, promote a culture of learning, and project a unified voice. But each objective has serious hurdles to overcome.

Opinion: It's time to build a new US agency for global development

Opinion: It's time to build a new US agency for global development

over 8 years ago // The future of US aid

The Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network envisions a new United States agency to take the reigns of development assistance efforts.

For better aid results, we need better aid data

For better aid results, we need better aid data

about 10 years ago // Aid Transparency

The U.S. Congress will consider a bipartisan, bicameral Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act Thursday. Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network co-chairs George Ingram, Carolyn Miles and Connie Veillette weigh in on why this legislation matters.

Advancing US foreign aid reform for better development results

Advancing US foreign aid reform for better development results

almost 11 years ago // In partnership with the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network

U.S. aid reform should focus on two powerful and mutually reinforcing pillars, write George Ingram, Carolyn Miles and Connie Veillette in a new campaign led by the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network.

Root, root, root — for transparency

Root, root, root — for transparency

about 11 years ago // Aid transparency

When the 2014 Aid Transparency Index is published Wednesday, die-hard transparency fans will be checking to see if U.S. agencies delivered on their IATI commitments. A joint opinion by the three co-chairs of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network.

Charting a way forward on US development policy

Charting a way forward on US development policy

over 11 years ago // Contributors: George Ingram, Carolyn Miles and Connie Veillette

The next two years are a crucial window of opportunity for U.S. aid reform. In an exclusive opinion, the co-chairs of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network share their vision for a reform agenda to improve development policy and practice, and make U.S. assistance dollars work smarter beyond 2014.

US should heed new OECD advice on US foreign aid reform

US should heed new OECD advice on US foreign aid reform

over 14 years ago // Feature

A new OECD-DAC report includes recommendations on creating a 21st century aid agency. The Obama administration and Congress should heed the advice, Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network Co-chair George Ingram writes in a Devex op-ed.