Nancy Birdsall is president emeritus and a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, which she co-founded in 2001. Prior to launching the center, Birdsall served for 14 years in research, policy, and management roles at the World Bank, and was executive vice-president of the Inter-American Development Bank.
The OECD Development Centre has made a good start on facilitating new dynamics in development research that put agency in the hands of countries from the global south. Here’s how that can scale.