Who Should Lead the Inter-American Development Bank?
A Latin America Advisor Q&A featuring experts’ takes on current candidates in the running to lead the Inter-American Development Bank.
United States |  Director, Global Development Policy Center, Boston University
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Dr. Kevin P. Gallagher is a professor of global development policy at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, where he also directs the Global Development Policy Center.
He is the author or co-author of several books, including: The China Triangle: Latin America’s China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus; The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization; The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico’s Silicon Valley; and Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond.
Gallagher serves on the United Nations’ Committee for Development Policy and co-chairs the T-20 Task Force on An International Financial Architecture for Stability and Development at the G-20. He previously served on the investment sub-committee of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy at the US Department of State and on the National Advisory Committee at the Environmental Protection Agency. Gallagher has been a visiting or adjunct professor at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University; El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico; Tsinghua University in China, and the Center for State and Society in Argentina.
Gallagher was an event speaker at the Dialogue.
A Latin America Advisor Q&A featuring experts’ takes on current candidates in the running to lead the Inter-American Development Bank.
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