• News
    • Latest news
    • News search
    • Health
    • Finance
    • Food
    • Career news
    • Content series
    • Try Devex Pro
  • Jobs
    • Job search
    • Post a job
    • Employer search
    • CV Writing
    • Upcoming career events
    • Try Career Account
  • Funding
    • Funding search
    • Funding news
  • Talent
    • Candidate search
    • Devex Talent Solutions
  • Events
    • Upcoming and past events
    • Partner on an event
  • Post a job
  • About
      • About us
      • Membership
      • Newsletters
      • Advertising partnerships
      • Devex Talent Solutions
      • Contact us
Join DevexSign in
Join DevexSign in

News

  • Latest news
  • News search
  • Health
  • Finance
  • Food
  • Career news
  • Content series
  • Try Devex Pro

Jobs

  • Job search
  • Post a job
  • Employer search
  • CV Writing
  • Upcoming career events
  • Try Career Account

Funding

  • Funding search
  • Funding news

Talent

  • Candidate search
  • Devex Talent Solutions

Events

  • Upcoming and past events
  • Partner on an event
Post a job

About

  • About us
  • Membership
  • Newsletters
  • Advertising partnerships
  • Devex Talent Solutions
  • Contact us
  • My Devex
  • Update my profile % complete
  • Account & privacy settings
  • My saved jobs
  • Manage newsletters
  • Support
  • Sign out
Latest newsNews searchHealthFinanceFoodCareer newsContent seriesTry Devex Pro
    • News
    • 40-Under-40 Development Leader in DC

    Steve Feldstein: Helping to draft the Senate's US aid reform plan

    For Steve Feldstein, a staffer on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the path to international development came as much by blood as by design.

    By David Meadvin // 13 December 2010
    Steve Feldstein, a staffer on the Senate foreign relations panel. Photo by: personal collection

    He’s asking the hard questions and pushing the U.S. Agency for International Development on a range of important systemic issues. He was one of a few principal staffers for S. 1524, the foreign assistance reform proposal spearheaded by Senate Foreign Relations Committee leaders John Kerry and Richard Lugar. As a newcomer to government, he helped advise a prominent U.N. reform panel that was assembled by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and featured three sitting prime ministers and two former presidents, among others.

    Yet for Steve Feldstein, a staffer on the Senate foreign relations panel, the path to international development came as much by blood as by design.

    “I’ve always been interested in foreign policy, even as a child,” says Feldstein, the product of an immigrant from Hong Kong and a Slavic languages professor whose travels took Feldstein across the globe at an early age. After traveling throughout Asia during college, Feldstein played an active role in Rwanda’s post-conflict reconstruction through the International Rescue Committee. And while his fellow law school classmates were preparing for lucrative careers at prestigious firms, Feldstein decided to return to his true passion.

    Although his current post in the halls of Congress is “a bit like drinking from a fire hose,” Feldstein is excited to continue his work on foreign aid reform and Haiti’s reconstruction. In his spare time, he teaches a “Terrorism and the Constitution” class at American University’s School of International Service. Count those students lucky – they have a world-class teacher.

    Read the announcement of Devex’s 40-under-40 honorees.

    • Trade & Policy
    • Humanitarian Aid
    Printing articles to share with others is a breach of our terms and conditions and copyright policy. Please use the sharing options on the left side of the article. Devex Pro members may share up to 10 articles per month using the Pro share tool ( ).

    About the author

    • David Meadvin

      David Meadvin

    Search for articles

    Related Stories

    The future of US aidDeath, reform, and power: Rubio spars with Senate over USAID cuts

    Death, reform, and power: Rubio spars with Senate over USAID cuts

    The future of US aidState Dept overhaul to cut 3,400 jobs, recast focus on US values

    State Dept overhaul to cut 3,400 jobs, recast focus on US values

    Devex NewswireDevex Newswire: Why is DOGE targeting this bipartisan US aid agency?

    Devex Newswire: Why is DOGE targeting this bipartisan US aid agency?

    Devex Pro InsiderDevex Pro Insider: The alternate realities of US foreign aid

    Devex Pro Insider: The alternate realities of US foreign aid

    Most Read

    • 1
      Lasting nutrition and food security needs new funding — and new systems
    • 2
      The UN's changing of the guard
    • 3
      The power of diagnostics to improve mental health
    • 4
      The top local employers in Europe
    • 5
      FfD4 special edition: The key takeaways from four days in Sevilla
    • News
    • Jobs
    • Funding
    • Talent
    • Events

    Devex is the media platform for the global development community.

    A social enterprise, we connect and inform over 1.3 million development, health, humanitarian, and sustainability professionals through news, business intelligence, and funding & career opportunities so you can do more good for more people. We invite you to join us.

    • About us
    • Membership
    • Newsletters
    • Advertising partnerships
    • Devex Talent Solutions
    • Post a job
    • Careers at Devex
    • Contact us
    © Copyright 2000 - 2025 Devex|User Agreement|Privacy Statement