Owen is a senior fellow and director for Europe at the Center for Global Development. He was previously the director of aidinfo, a program of Development Initiatives which aims to make aid more transparent and accountable. Owen was previously a British civil servant in a career spanning more than 20 years that included stints at Her Majesty’s Treasury, the office of the Prime Minister, and the U.K. Department for International Development.

Owen Barder is a vice president at the Center for Global Development, director for Europe and a senior fellow. He is also a visiting professor in practice at the London School of Economics and a specialist adviser to the U.K. House of Commons International Development Committee. He writes a personal blog at http://www.owen.org/blog and hosts a development podcast at http://DevelopmentDrums.org.

Oyintarelado Moses is the data analyst and database manager for the Global China Initiative at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center.

Pablo Vieira is the global director of the NDC Partnership. In this role, Pablo leads efforts that build momentum for ambitious climate and development actions, in collaboration with governments and international stakeholders around the world.

Pablo Yanguas is a research fellow at the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre and Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, as well as an international development consultant specializing in politically smart and adaptive programming. His research on aid effectiveness and public sector reform has appeared in academic journals such as World Development, Development Policy Review, and Third World Quarterly. He is the author of the book Why We Lie About Aid: Development and the Messy Politics of Change (Zed Books, 2018).

Paddy Carter is director of research and policy at CDC Group. He has a Ph.D. economics from Bristol University, where he was also a British Academy post-doctoral fellow. Before joining CDC, he wrote about foreign aid and development finance for the Center for Global Development and for ODI. Before returning to university to study economics, Paddy was an equities analyst and a financial journalist. He writes here in a personal capacity.

Paige Alexander is the assistant administrator of the Bureau for the Middle East at USAID. She leads the Bureau, including the efforts of USAID missions and development programs in 10 countries from North Africa through the Middle East. With over 20 years working in international development, she draws upon her experience both in the field and in D.C., including time chairing USAID’s Middle East Transition Response team.