Here is my most recent CV.

I am an Assistant Professor in Cornell University's Department of Government and interested in the political economy of developing countries, with a particular focus on Latin America, Africa, and the effects of international institututions in these regions.  My Ph.D. dissertation, partly funded by the National Science Foundation, focused on the effects of non-tax revenue (such as foreign aid and income from state-owned natural resource enterprises) on transitions to and from democracy.  My work has been or will soon be published in Development Policy Review, Electoral Studies, International Organization, and Public Choice, as well as edited volumes.  I have a Ph.D. in political science (Duke University), an M.A. in economics (Duke), an M.Sc. in development studies (London School of Economics), and a B.A. in political science (Emory University).

I also have a background in development policy, having been a Fellow at the Overseas Development Council (ODC) and consulted for the World Bank and the Center for Global Development.  While at ODC, I co-authored (with Ravi Kanbur and Todd Sandler) The Future of Development Assistance: Common Pools and International Public Goods (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), and was a member of the core team of authors of the World Bank’s World Development Report 2000/01: Attacking Poverty, writing the chapters on the international actions necessary for poverty reduction.  I am currently a member of the Africa Task Force, a group of policymakers and academics co-directed by Kwesi Botchwey and Joseph Stiglitz at Columbia University’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue.  My opinion pieces have appeared in The Durham Herald-Sun, The Financial Times, The International Herald Tribune, and The Raleigh News & Observer.