Carol Lancaster

Carol Lancaster is Associate Professor and Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. She has been a Carnegie Scholar and a visiting fellow at the Institute for International Economics, the Center for Global Development and the Overseas Development Council, as well as Congressional Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar. She has also served in a variety of government positions, including Deputy Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from 1993-1996 and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (1980-81). She serves on the boards of a number of non-governmental organizations and has been a member of the U.N. Secretary General’s Panel on International Support for NEPAD. She is the author of numerous books and articles on foreign aid, foreign policy and development. Her most recent book, Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2006.

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