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Overview
AidData’s team of economists, political scientists, computational geographers, developers, program evaluators, policy analysts, and media and communications professionals has a track record of successfully managing more than 90 grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements worth more than $50 million over the last 16 years.
Leadership
Our Staff

Ana Horigoshi
Senior Research Analyst

Asad Sami
Program Manager

Brook Lautenslager
Deputy Director for Data Analytics and Technology Solutions

Brooke Escobar
Associate Director, Chinese Development Finance Program

Bryan Burgess
Program Manager

Carly Muir
Geospatial Analyst

Divya Mathew
Senior Policy Specialist
Fei Wang
Junior Program Manager

Jacob Hall
Data Analyst

Jessica Wells
Research Scientist

John Custer
Deputy Director, Communications and Data Analytics

Jonathan A. Solis
Senior Research Analyst

Katherine Nolan
Research Scientist

Katherine Walsh
Senior Program Manager

Kelsey Marshall
Program Manager

Kunwar Singh
Senior Geospatial Scientist

Kyra Solomon
Program Manager

Lydia Vlasto
Junior Program Manager

Monica Maher
Senior Partnerships Associate

Nara Sritharan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Pratap Khattri
Junior Data Analyst

Rachel Sayers
Research Scientist

Rodney Knight
Deputy Director of Research

Rory Fedorochko
Junior Program Manager
Sara Sayedi
Postdoctoral Fellow

Sarina Patterson
Communications Manager

Seth Goodman
Research Scientist
Sethu Nguna
Training and Instructional Design Manager

Sheng Zhang
Research Analyst
Wanqi (Angie) Zhu
Junior Data Analyst
AidData Research Consortium and Affiliated Researchers
Achyuta Adhvaryu
Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan
Alastair Smith
Bernhardt Denmark Chair of International Relations at New York University
Alex Braithwaite
Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Arizona
Alex Pfaff
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Economics and Environment at Duke University
Allen Blackman
Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future
Amy Selzer
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at the College of William & Mary
Andreas Fuchs
Professor of Development Economics at the University of Goettingen
Andrew Horowitz
Professor of Economics at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas
Andrew Zeitlin
Assistant Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University
Arilton Teixeira
Director of FUCAPE Business School
Armando Geller
Co-Founder of Scensei
Austin Strange
Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong
Axel Dreher
Professor of Economics and Chair of International and Development Politics at Heidelberg University
Axel Michaelowa
Head of Research on International Climate Policy at the University of Zurich
Bann Seng Tan
Visiting Assistant Professor of Government at the College of William & Mary
Brent McCusker
Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Geography Department at West Virginia University
Brigitte Seim
Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Julius Silver Professor of Politics at the Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy at New York University
Burcu Savun
Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh
Carrie Dolan
Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Health Sciences at the College of William & Mary
Catherine Weaver
Associate Professor and Graduate Director at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin
Chad Clay
Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia
Charles Becker
Research Professor of Economics at Duke University
Chris Marcoux
Assistant Professor of Political Science at DePauw University
Christopher Kilby
Associate Professor of Economics at the Villanova School of Business at Villanova University
Clionadh Raleigh
Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sussex
Cullen Hendrix
Assistant Professor at the Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver
Dan Nielson
Professor and Associate Chair of Political Science at Brigham Young University
Daniel Maliniak
Professor at the College of William & Mary
Daniel Miller
Assistant Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Daniel Strandow
PhD candidate at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University
Daniel Vasiliu
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the College of William & Mary
Darren Hawkins
Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University
David Backer
Director of the Center for International Development and Conflict Management
David Leblang
Professor and Chair of the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia
David Lobell
Professor in Earth Systems Science at Stanford University
Diego Giuliani
Assistant Professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Trento, Italy
Elizabeth Carlson
Assistant Professor in Political Science and the Program on African Studies at Pennsylvania State University
Elizabeth Ransom
Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Richmond
Enrico Bertini
Assistant Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Erasmus Kersting
Assistant Professor of Economics at Villanova University
Erik Wibbels
Professor of Political Science at Duke University
Erin Lentz
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin
Gabriella Montinola
Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis
Gina Yannitell Reinhardt
Assistant Professor of Public Service and Administration at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University
Giuseppe Arbia
Professor of Statistics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome, Italy
Gordon McCord
Assistant Professor of Economics at the School of Global Policy & Strategy at the University of California, San Diego
Helen Milner
B. C. Forbes Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University
Henrik Urdal
Director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Homi Kharas
Senior Fellow and Deputy Director for the Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings
Jennifer Bussell
Gruber Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley
Jennifer Tobin
Assistant Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University
Jenny Aker
Associate Professor of Development Economics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University
Jessica Hellmann
Director of the Institute on the Environment and the Russell M. and Elizabeth M. Barrett Chair of Ecology at the University of Minnesota
Jim Wright
Associate Professor of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) at Southampton University
Joel Selway
Associate Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University
John Spencer
Senior GIS Specialist at MEASURE Evaluation
John Swaddle
Professor of Biology at the College of William & Mary
Jordan Kyle
Visiting Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Joseph Wright
Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University
Joseph Young
Associate Professor at the School of Public Affairs and School of International Service at American University
Joshua Busby
Associate Professor of Public Affairs at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin
Joshua Fisher
Director of the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity at the Earth Institute at Columbia University
Karen Grépin
Associate Professor of Health Sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University
Kate Baldwin
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University
Katharina Michaelowa
Professor of Political Economy and Development at the University of Zurich
Kenneth Chomitz
Chief Analytics Officer at the Global Innovation Fund
Kenneth Lee
Executive Director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago in India (EPIC-India)
Kevin Morrison
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh
Kim Dionne
Five College Assistant Professor of Government at Smith College
Kosuke Imai
Professor in the Department of Politics and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning at Princeton University
Leonardo Arriola
Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley
Lisa Mueller
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Macalester College
Maciek Latek
Co-Founder of Scensei
Maggie Holland
Associate Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland
Marc Levy
Deputy Director of the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at The Earth Institute at Columbia University.
Marco Millones Mayer
Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Mary Washington
Mark Buntaine
Assistant Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and the Department of Political Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara
Marshall Burke
Assistant Professor of Earth System Science at Stanford University
Martin Steinwand
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University
Matt Lowe
PhD candidate in Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Matthew Winters
Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Maurits van der Veen
Assistant Professor of Government at the College of William & Mary
Mead Over
Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development
Michael Cain
Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy at St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Michael Walker
PhD candidate in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley
Mike Findley
Assistant Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin
Mike Tierney
Co-Director of the Global Research Institute and Hylton Professor of Government and International Relations at the College of William & Mary
Nisha Krishnan
Research Associate at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law
Patrick Meier
Executive Director and Co-Founder of WeRobotics
Patrick Paul Walsh
Full Professor of International Development Studies in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin
Patrick Regan
Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame
Paul Huth
Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park
Paula Pickering
Associate Professor of Government at the College of William & Mary
Philip Roessler
Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for African Development (CAD) at the College of William & Mary
Raj Desai
Associate Professor of International Development at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
Rema Hanna
Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School
Richard Bluhm
Assistant Professor at the Hannover Institute of Macroeconomics at Leibniz University
Rob Blair
Joukowsky Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs at Brown University
Rob Hicks
Professor of Economics at the College of William & Mary
Robert K. Fleck
Professor of Economics at Clemson University
Roland Hodler
Professor of Economics at the University of Lucerne
Russell Toth
Senior Lecturer at the School of Economics at the University of Sydney
Ryan Jablonski
Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Sahai Burrowes
Assistant Professor of Public Health at Touro University California
Samuel Bazzi
Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University
Samuel Brazys
Associate Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin
Sarah Bush
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Temple University
Sarah Glaser
Research Scientist at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver
Scott Gates
Research Professor at the Peace Research Insitute Oslo (PRIO) and Editor of International Area Studies Review
Scott Ickes
Assistant Professor of Health Services at the University of Washington School of Public Health
Scott Morgenstern
Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh
Seyed M. Mussavi Rizi
Simulations Analytics at Scensei
Shahriar Kibriya
Associate Director of the Center on Conflict and Development at Texas A&M University
Shahrokh Fardoust
Research Professor at the Global Research Institute at the College of William & Mary
Simone Dietrich
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Geneva in Switzerland
Siri Aas Rustad
Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson
Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park
Steve Shellman
Director of the Violent Intranational Political Conflict and Terrorism (VIPCAT) Lab at William & Mary
Sven Wilson
Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University
Timmons Roberts
Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at Brown University
Todd Smith
Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno
Tyler Frazier
Visiting Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies at the College of William & Mary
Victoria Fan
Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development
Willa Friedman
Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Houston