Berkley Center

Steven Radelet holds the Donald F. McHenry Chair in Global Human Development and is director of the Global Human Development Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He serves as an economic advisor to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and is a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution. Radelet joined the Georgetown faculty in 2012 after serving as chief economist of USAID and senior advisor for development for then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton. He is the author or coauthor of several books and dozens of academic articles, including The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World (2015), Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries are Leading the Way (2010) and the textbook Economics of Development (2013, seventh edition). He holds Ph.D. and master's degrees in Public Policy from Harvard University and a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Central Michigan University.