The Team

Executive Directors

Stephen Davenport is Co-Executive Director of AidData and Senior Director for Business Development, Innovation and Partnerships at Development Gateway. Steve has worked at Development Gateway since 2001 and has extensive experience designing aid management systems and tools for governments, particularly in Africa. Prior to joining Development Gateway, he worked with the World Bank, IBM, Computer Associates, and BearingPoint, developing technology solutions for the public and private sector. He holds a master's degree in international business administration from Georgetown University, and a bachelor's degree from Washington and Lee University.

Brad Parks is Co-Executive Director of AidData, Research Faculty at the College of William and Mary's Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations, and a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previously, Brad served as an Associate Director of Development Policy at the Millennium Challenge Corporation. He has written and contributed to several books and articles on international political economy, global environmental politics, and the allocation and efficacy of foreign assistance. He holds a BA in International Relations from the College of William and Mary and an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Staff

Development Gateway

Riccardo de Marchi Trevisan is the Product Manager for AidData at Development Gateway. Riccardo is in charge of the day-to-day operations of AidData, including business development, accounting, contracts, and task assignments for the development team. Riccardo has a legal background, with an executive master’s degree in international service from American University. Previously, Riccardo was in charge of the development and marketing of AiDA (Accessible Information on Development Activities) at Development Gateway.

Sebastian Dimunzio leads the software development team. Previously, he developed software for the Aid Management Platform (AMP) at Development Gateway. He has more than 10 years developing software and has worked in Gedas / T-Systems, Motorola Argentina, and other local enterprises.

Ariel Fiuri works on software development for AidData. Previously, he developed software for AiDA (Accessible Information on Development Activities). Ariel holds a Computer Science degree from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. He has more than 10 years experience developing software working at the university, Motorola Corp., and other local enterprises.

Brian Hammond is a Senior Advisor to Development Gateway and AidData, in particular advising on the partnership with the OECD. Brian has had links to Development Gateway since its founding in 2000, chairing its Aid Effectiveness Steering Committee and helping in the creation of AiDA and the AMP program. He currently chairs the IATI Technical Advisory Group. He was formerly Head of the Statistics and Monitoring Division in the OECD-DAC Secretariat and prior to that worked for the UK Department of International Development, first as a statistician and then as head of information systems. He has a bachelor’s degree in economics and statistics from Exeter University.

Emily Kallaur is the Manager of Marketing and Communications at Development Gateway, and is responsible for AidData communications, including press releases, event coordination, newsletters and the website. Before Emily joined Development Gateway, she worked as a consultant for the World Bank, focusing on research and analysis of economic issues in eastern Africa. Emily holds a master's degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and a bachelor's degree in marketing from the University of Virginia.

Gerald Mutuhu works as a software developer. Previously, he developed mobility solutions for various organizations. He holds a Bsc in Computer Science from Maseno University (Kenya).

Josh Powell is a Business Development Associate at Development Gateway who works primarily on AidData. Josh focuses on implementing projects related to geocoding, aid effectiveness, transparency, and innovation. He holds a BS in finance from the University of Baltimore and a master's degree in public policy with an emphasis on international development from Brigham Young University.

College of William and Mary

Jim Deverick is a Director of Information Technology at AidData. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary. Jim oversees software development and information technology at the William and Mary branch of AidData, and acts as the technical liaison between the participating university research teams and the software development teams at Development Gateway. He likes technology. A lot.

Daniel Gamboa is a Visiting Research Associate at AidData. His responsibilities include research and collaboration with emerging development partners. Daniel holds a BA in international relations from Fray Bartolome de las Casas University, and an MA in international development cooperation from Instituto Mora in Mexico

Robert Mosolgo is an AidData Project Manager at William and Mary. His responsibilities include data quality management and cooperation with donors and emerging development partners. Robert received his BA in East Asian Studies from the College of William and Mary.

Brian O'Donnell is a Post-Baccalaureate Fellow at the Institute for Theory and Practice of International Relations. He holds a BA in Government and Literary and Cultural Studies from the College of William and Mary. Brian manages the day-to-day operations of AidData activity coding, and student research initiatives by William and Mary research assistants. He also assists with AidData grant writing and blogging.

Brigham Young University

Anna Bergevin is a project manager for AidData. She is responsible for data acquisition, integration, and quality assurance for data for multilateral development banks and webscraped information, as well as overall data management. Anna received her BA in political science from Brigham Young University.

Kellie Daniels oversees the grants and budget for the Political Economy and Development Lab at Brigham Young University. She received her MPA from the University of Utah and a BA in psychology from the University of Utah.

Angela O'Neill serves as a Project Manager for AidData at BYU. She directs data collection, coding, cleaning, and arbitration processes, and also coordinates and manages AidData research projects undertaken by principal investigators at BYU. This includes managing funds, identifying barriers/gaps in project deliverables, developing plans and solutions to address them, and tracking and reporting on progress. She received her Masters of Public Policy and BA in political science from Brigham Young University.

Affiliated Researchers

Michael Tierney is Director of International Relations and Associate Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 2003. His interests include international organizations, international relations theory, political economy of development and institutions, and foreign aid. He has written numerous articles and book chapters applying agency theory to cases in international relations.

Daniel Nielson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1997. His research interests include agency theory, multilateral development banks, foreign aid, social and environmental assistance, and comparative politics, particularly in Latin America.

Sven Wilson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1997. He now studies public health policy, labor economics, and the health impacts of international development. He has published in the American Economic Review, Applied Economics, and numerous other journals.

Rob Hicks is an Associate Professor of Economics at the College of William and Mary. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1997. He has published in the area of environmental economics, applied econometrics, and international development finance.

Darren Hawkins is a Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, where he is currently the department chair. He teaches and researches on international relations and especially international organizations. He has published a number of scholarly articles on international human rights, international institutions, and democracy.

Mark Buntaine is an Assistant Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 2011. His research interests focus on the intersection of international relations, development assistance, and the environment. With support from the U.S. National Science Foundation, Professor Buntaine leads a team of researchers who have coded every World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank and African Development Bank project and country evaluation completed since 1990 on a set of environmental performance indicators. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked on natural resource management, conservation and development projects in a variety of countries, including China, Thailand, Laos, Australia, and Ecuador.

Mike Findley is an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at BYU. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science in 2007 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research examines civil wars, ethnic conflict, and terrorism. He has published in the Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and other journals.

Chris Marcoux is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at the New College of Florida. From 2009-2011, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the College of William and Mary. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in 2008. His research interests span international organizations, international law, and the political economy of global environmental governance. Currently, Chris manages environmental coding for AidData.

J. Timmons Roberts is a Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Center for Environmental Studies at Brown University. He directed the Environmental Science and Policy program at the College of William and Mary from 2001-2008, and is Visiting Research Associate at the College of William and Mary's Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1992. He has a wide range of interests related to environmental policy and environmental justice including work on the social impact of climate change and the role of foreign assistance in addressing climate justice demands.

Maurits van der Veen joined the Department of Government at the College of William and Mary as an Assistant Professor in 2010. He received his BA from Dartmouth College, an MS in computer science from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University. His research examines the various ways policymakers think about ("frame") foreign policy issues, and the impact that different frames, in turn, have on actual policy choices. He has applied this approach to the study of foreign aid policy in Western Europe and the United States, the politics of European integration and EU enlargement, and the terminology used to describe massive human rights violations. He also develops agent-based computational models to analyze the impact of social networks on the spread of foreign policy frames, and of ideas more generally.

Simone Dietrich is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the Pennsylvania State University in 2011. Her research examines donor-decision making about how to deliver in recipient country and analyzes how these decisions affect development and political outcomes. Prior to her doctoral studies, Simone implemented foreign aid projects while working for international and non-governmental organizations in the Balkans.

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