BROOKINGS INSTITUTION - Key Persons
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- Professor - Columbia Business School, Former President - Global Markets Initiative at Goldman Sachs, Trustee - the
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- Senior Fellow With the Center for Asia Policy Studies
Adam P. Liff is a nonresident senior fellow with the Center for Asia Policy Studies at Brookings. Liff is based at Indiana University's Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, where he is associate professor of East Asian international relations and founding director of the 21st Century Japan Politics and Society Initiative. He is also the former Visiting Chair of Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
An expert on Asia-Pacific security affairs, Liff's current research focuses on Japanese foreign policy (especially security) and the U.S.-Japan alliance, Taiwan, and the rise of China and its regional impact. He holds a doctorate and master's from Princeton University, and a bachelor's from Stanford University. Liff's past research affiliations include the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center, Peking University's School of International Studies, the Princeton-Harvard China & the World Program, the University of Virginia's Miller Center, the University of Tokyo's Institute of Social Science, Waseda University, and the Wilson Center.
Liff's public-facing and policy-oriented research has appeared in various online venues, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Asahi Shimbun, and The Washington Post. His scholarly research has been published in leading academic journals, including Asia Policy, Asian Survey, The China Quarterly, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, International Security, Journal of Japanese Studies, Japanese Journal of Political Science, Japanese Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Strategic Studies, Security Studies, Texas National Security Review, The Washington Quarterly, and the Washington University Global Studies Law Review.
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Harvard University, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, associate-in-research
Harvard University, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, associate-in-research
Indiana University, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies (EALC Department), associate professor
Current Positions
Associate Professor of East Asian International Relations (EALC Department), Hamilton Lugar School of Global & International Studies, Indiana University
Associate in Research, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
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- Group CFO and CEO - ArcelorMittal Europe
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- Vice - Chancellor of University Cheikh Anta DIOP
Ahmadou Aly Mbaye is vice-chancellor of University Cheikh Anta DIOP (UCAD) in Dakar, Senegal and a senior research associate at the Centre for Development Research (ZEF, University of Bonn, Germany). He currently holds the position of director of the Laboratoire d'Analyse des Politiques de Developpement (LAPD). He is also the director of the regional graduate program in climate change economics (including 10 countries). Previously, he had served as the dean of the School of Economics and Management at the Cheikh Anta DIOP University and chair of CIEREA-PTCI (the Francophone African network of research and higher education in economics) Board for 10 years. Mbaye has been a consultant for many regional and international organizations. He is managing several international programs within his universities and has numerous publications on development economics and Africa. Mbaye has been serving as a member in the AERC's Programme Committee for more than four years now.
In the area of research, Mbaye has developed a new concept of the informal sector, which challenges the mainstream formal/informal dichotomous classification, and proposes an approach of informality based on a continuum of degrees of formality. He then led an international team that implemented the methodology in most Francophone African countries. The multi-donor financed project that resulted from this experience has led to several publications, including a volume and numerous peer reviewed papers.
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Vice-chancellor, University Cheikh Anta DIOP
Senior Research Associate, Center for Development Research (ZEF)
Advisory Board Member, Global Masters in Development Practice Association
Board Member, Institut des Hautes Études du Développement Durable (IHEDD)
Member of the Programme Committee, The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
Director of the Doctoral Programme, West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL)
Coordinator of Master's in Public Infrastructure Management, Makerere University (Uganda) and Pretoria University (South Africa)
Director, Laboratoire d'Analyse des Politiques de Développement, University Cheikh Anta Diop (Senegal)
Coordinator of the Master's of Development Practice, University Cheikh Anta Diop
Member of the Academic Board, Programme de Troisième Cycle Interuniversitaire en Economie
Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, University Cheikh Anta Diop
Member of the Board, The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Education
Doctorate in Economics, CERDI, University of Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand1, France (1998)
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- Executive Chairman - Guggenheim Partners
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- President and CEO - Fremont Group
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- Chairman - Converse Associates, Inc.
Alexander Noyes is a fellow in the Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology at the Brookings Institution. He has expertise and senior-level U.S. government policy experience across a range of international security issues, including U.S. defense policy, military assistance, irregular warfare, coups, and democratization.
From 2021 to 2023 Noyes served in the Department of Defense (DoD) as a senior advisor and then deputy director in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy. In these roles, he led efforts to evaluate the strategic outcomes of all DoD security cooperation globally-spearheading the Department's first ever "Learning Agenda"-and provided policy oversight for DoD's institutional capacity building advisory programs in over 100 countries. From 2015-17 he worked for the U.S. Security Governance Initiative, a White House initiative launched by President Obama to improve security governance in Africa. He has held research roles at RAND, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Institute for Defense Analyses, the Council on Foreign Relations, and DoD's Africa Center for Strategic Studies.
Noyes has two forthcoming books. The first, with Yale University Press, is titled "War at Arm's Length: How America Can Build Effective Military Partners" (co-authored with Richard Bennet). The second, with the University of Pennsylvania Press, is titled "Compromised Coalitions: The Paradox of Post-Conflict Power Sharing in Africa." He has written for or appeared in: The New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, CNN, BBC News, BBC Radio, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, CFR.org, War On The Rocks, Lawfare, Semafor, Daily Beast, Voice of America, Christian Science Monitor, World Politics Review, Vox News, Vice News, ABC (Australia), The Herald (Zimbabwe), Daily Maverick (South Africa), African Arguments, Democracy in Africa, The Daily Podcast (NYT), Into Africa Podcast, African Studies Quarterly, International Peacekeeping, Parameters (Army War College Quarterly), several edited volumes, and dozens of peer-reviewed RAND and other think tank reports.
Noyes holds a doctorate and a master's degree from Oxford University and a bachelor's degree from Connecticut College. He is an adjunct political scientist at RAND and a member of the External Advisory Group on Security Sector Reform at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
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Adjunct Political Scientist, RAND
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- Chairman and CEO - Fanjul Corp. and Florida Crystals Corporation
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- Member of the Board of Directors of the Partnership for Transparency Fund
- Senior Fellow With the Africa Growth Initiative
Aloysius Uche Ordu is a nonresident senior fellow with the Africa Growth Initiative in the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings. He previously served as director of the Africa Growth Initiative. Prior to joining Brookings, he was managing partner at Omapu Associates LLC, a boutique advisory services and consulting firm. In that capacity, he was lead adviser of the African Development Fund Policy Innovation Lab, which was created under the Bill & Melinda Gates Trust Fund to support the efforts of the African Development Bank Group for reinvigorating concessional finance to respond to the changing reality of its clients. As lead adviser, he oversaw a policy team that prepared the "Report of the High Level Panel on Transforming Trust in the AfDB Group into Influence."
Ordu was previously vice president at the African Development Bank. In that capacity he was accountable for the bank's regional departments, and the policy, fiduciary, partnership, and resource mobilization departments. He oversaw the replenishment of the African Development Fund, led the Bank Group's decentralization of staff to the country offices across the African continent, chaired the operations committee, played active roles in the senior management coordinating committee, and represented bank management in the committee meetings of the board of executive directors. Before his appointment as vice president, he was regional director for Eastern Africa (covering Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, Tanzania, and Uganda). In that capacity, he introduced innovations in country strategy formulation, analytically rigorous economic and sector work, and attention to expeditious portfolio management and quality assurance.
Before joining the African Development Bank, Ordu worked at the World Bank for over two decades and served in various leadership and managerial capacities, including director of operations policy and country services. In that capacity, he represented bank management in the committee meetings of the board of executive directors. He also served as operations director for the Latin America and the Caribbean region; country manager (Manila, Philippines); manager for development effectiveness in the Middle East and North Africa region; and coordinator of the Young Professionals Program-the World Bank Group's source of talent.
During his long career in international development, Ordu led teams that revamped the World Bank's lending policy instruments and streamlined its quality assurance processes. He led the design, appraisal and supervision of investment lending projects in Africa, East and South Asia and other world regions in diverse sectors, including urban water and sanitation, agriculture and rural development, energy, and transport infrastructure.
Prior to joining the World Bank Group, he worked as an international economist at the Midland Bank Group, London, covering emerging markets. Before that he worked at The Economist Intelligence Unit, London, covering sovereign risks.
Ordu is a member of the board of directors of the Partnership for Transparency Fund. He served as senior consultant to the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations Environment Program, the African Development Bank, and the World Bank.
His research interests include trade policy, regional economic integration, governance, public health economics, and infrastructure financing. He has published numerous commentaries on African affairs through AGI's Africa in Focus and through the Nairobi-based East African newspaper.
Ordu holds a Ph.D. in economics from Sussex University, M.Sc. in quantitative economics from Bristol University, and B.Sc. in economics and law from University College, Cardiff, Wales, U.K.
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Member, Monetary Policy Committee, Central Bank of Nigeria
Nonresident Senior Fellow, African Center for Economic Transformation
Board Member, Partnership for Transparency Fund
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- Presidential Advisor and Senior Fellow - the Brookings Institution, Brookings Metro @Amy Liuw
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- Co - Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Executive Committee - Loews Corporation
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- Vice President
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- Chairman - WGBH Boston, Former Chairman and CEO - Young & Rubicam Brands
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- Senior Advisor - Foreign Policy, Founder and Former CEO - Emerging Markets Management, LLC
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- Senior Counsel - Cahill Gordon & Reindel
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- Vice President and Director - Economic Studies @Econ Harris
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- Senior Advisor and Co - Founder - the JBG Companies
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- Retired Chairman and CEO - KeyCorp
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- Co - Founder and Chairman - Cohen Circle ( Formerly FinTech Masala ), Founder and Strategic Advisor - the Bancorp
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- Vice President and Director - Global Economy and Development, Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development @BSangafowaCoul
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- Chairman and CEO - Greenspun Media Group
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- Brian Rogers Former Chairman
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- Vice President and Director - Governance Studies, Director - Race, Prosperity, and Inclusion Initiative @CamilleBusette
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- President - the Brookings Institution @CeciliaERouse
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- Founder - Conjunction Fund, Chair - Charles H. Revson Foundation
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- President and CEO - American Indian College Fund
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- Chairman - Old Harbour Partners, LLC
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- CEO and Chief Investment Officer - Arena Investors LP
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- Vice Chairman - IHS, Inc.
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- CEO - C.H. Robinson Worldwide
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- Founder and CEO - Grain Management, LLC
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- Chairman Emeritus - the Brookings Institution, Co - Founder and Co - Chairman - the Carlyle Group
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- Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy Emeritus - School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Trustee - the
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- Retired CEO - Northwest Airlines, Inc., Trustee - the
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- Partner - Centerview Partners
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- Co - Founder and Managing Director - Wenzi Capital Partners
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- Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs - the
Ellen V. Futter Interim President - Markle Foundation, Senior Advisor - Boston Consulting Group, President Emerita - American Museum of Natural History, Trustee - The Brookings Institution
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- Co - Founder - SSW Partners, CIO - 76 West Holdings
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- Member of the Board of Trustees - Officers Team
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- Co - Chair of the Board - the Brookings Institution, Co - Founder - North Island
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- Chairman and CEO - Saban Capital Group, Inc., Trustee - the Brookings Institution @Haimsaban
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- President - Spelman College, Trustee - the Brookings Institution @SpelmanPres
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- Special Limited Partner - Greylock, Trustee - the
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- Chairman - Thomson Reuters Foundation
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- Chief U.S. Economist and Head of Economic Research - Brevan Howard Asset Management
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- Vice President, Executive Affairs
Joe Straus III Former Speaker - Texas House of Representatives, Principal - La Cima Partners, LLC, Trustee - The Brookings Institution @SpeakerStraus
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- President and CEO - Taco, Inc.
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- Chairman Emeritus - the Brookings Institution, Executive Chairman - Barrick Gold Corporation
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- Senior Advisor - the Carlyle Group
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- General Counsel - Office of General Counsel
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- Chairman Emerita - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Former Senior Managing Director - Tishman Speyer
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- Executive Chairman - Lazard
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- Co - President of Asia Pacific Ex - Japan - Goldman Sachs
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- Founder and CEO - Who Brew, LLC
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- Chairman of the Board - the Progressive Corporation
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- Chairman and CEO - Altec, Inc.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees - Officers Team
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- Vice Chair of the Board - the Brookings Institution, Founding Chairman and CEO - WellPoint
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- Professor - Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, Host - 3 Takeaways Podcast, Trustee - the
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- Chairman and CEO - Morino Ventures, LLC.
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- Senior Vice President for Finance, Chief Operating Officer
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- Executive Chairman & Chief Executive Officer - United Airlines, Retired
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- Chairman - Power Corporation of Canada
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- Chairman of the Global Advisory Board - Deutsche Bank
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- Founding Partner - Second Avenue Partners
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- Chairman - New Enterprise Associates ( NEA )
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- Chairman and Co - Founder - Nike
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- President - American Standard Development Co., Inc.
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- President - Keystone Group
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- Vice President and Director - Brookings Metro @Rpuentes
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- CEO - Lewis Corporate Advisors, LLC
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- President and CEO - Alliance Bernstein
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- Interim Chief Human Resources Officer
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- President - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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- Chairman - General Atlantic LLC
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- Chairman - Willett Advisors LLC
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- Chairman and Founder - the Susan Crown Exchange, Chairman and CEO - Owl Creek Partners
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- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
- Vice President and Director - Foreign Policy @MaloneySuzanne
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- Member of the Board of Trustees - Officers Team
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- Co - Chair of the Board - the Brookings Institution, Chair of the Board - Intuit, Inc.
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- Brian Rogers Former Chairman
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- Head of Technology and Business Enablement - Citi
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- Tom Kaplan Senior Manager and Board Member
Tracy R. Wolstencroft Secretary of the Board - The Brookings Institution, Senior Advisor - TPG Rise Climate, Former President and CEO - National Geographic Society, Former President and CEO - Heidrick & Struggles
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- Member of the Board of Trustees - Officers Team
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- Treasurer of the Board - the Brookings Institution, President and CEO - Legato Capital Management, LLC
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- Retired Executive - TD Bank Group, Trustee - the
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- Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center
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- Tom Kaplan Senior Manager and Board Member