CID’s faculty affiliates embody the breadth and depth of international development research at Harvard. Faculty affiliates hail from across the University and work in every region of the world, on every topic in development.

Director of Environment and Natural Resources Program;
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas:
Energy;
Environment;
and Public Infrastructure

Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas:
Education;
Teaching and Learning;
Education Technology;
Program Evaluation;
Impact Evaluation;
RCTs;
AI

Assistant Professor of Government
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Research Areas:
Ethnic and Racial Politics;
Migration and Immigration;
Political Psychology

Francois Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Research Areas:
Global Health;
Mental Health;
Poverty;
Tobacco Control;
Biotechnology;
Terrorism;
Access to Medicines

Lecturer in Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas:
Political Behavior;
Conflict;
Violence;
Gender;
Inequality

Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Governance
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas:
Political Institutions;
Public Opinion;
Development

Associate Professor of Global Health Economics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Research Areas:
Maternal Health;
Behavioral Economics;
Intersection of Poverty and Health Behavior

Marie and Max Kargman Associate Professor in Human Development and Urban Education Advancement
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Research Areas:
Early Childhood Development

David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Research Areas:
International Trade and Investment;
Productivity

Associate Professor of Global Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Research Areas:
Health;
Infectious Disease Control;
Epidemiology;
Health Economics

Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School
Research Areas:
Financial Economics;
Political Economy

Associate Professor of Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Research Areas:
Causal Inference;
Text Analysis;
Evaluation Research;
Randomized Trials

Adjunct Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas:
Economic Growth and Transformation;
Monetary Unions;
Employment Creation;
Industrialization

Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas:
Political Economy and Behavior;
Business-Government Relations;
Clientelism;
Distributive Politics;
Social Protection

Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard Kennedy School
Research Areas:
Comparative Politics;
Democracy and Autocracy;
Public Opinion and Behavior