People

Overview

AidData’s team of economists, political scientists, computational geographers, software engineers, program evaluators, policy analysts, and media and communications professionals has a track record of successfully managing more than 100 grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements worth more than $75 million over the last 20 years. 

Leadership

AidData’s leadership team collectively brings a century of thought leadership to research programs on foreign policy and international development.

Bradley C. Parks
Bradley C. Parks
Executive Director
Brad leads a team of over 35 program evaluators, policy analysts, and researchers who work with governments and international organizations to improve the ways in which overseas investments are targeted, monitored, and evaluated.
Ariel BenYishay
Ariel BenYishay
Chief Economist, Director of Research and Evaluation
Ariel has served as the principal investigator on a variety of large-scale experiments in developing countries, including Malawi, the Philippines, and the Solomon Islands. 
Samantha Custer
Samantha Custer
Director of Policy Analysis
Samantha leads an interdisciplinary research team at AidData, which produces insightful international affairs analysis that is academically rigorous and policy relevant.
Brooke Escobar
Brooke Escobar
Interim Director, Chinese Development Finance Program
Brooke leads the Tracking Underreported Financial Flows program that uses pioneering methods to track and analyze underreported financial flows from non-traditional donors to developing countries.
Alex Wooley
Alex Wooley
Director of Partnerships and Communications
Alex builds strategic partnerships, trains emerging journalists, and writes about China's investments in maritime infrastructure.

Our Staff

Ana Horigoshi

Research Scientist

Asad Sami

Program Manager

Brook Lautenslager

Deputy Director for Data Analytics and Technology Solutions

Bryan Burgess

Senior Policy Specialist

Divya Mathew

Senior Policy Specialist

Dong Luo

Postdoctoral Fellow

Jacob Hall

Data Analyst

Jacqueline Zimmerman

Associate Program Manager

Jessica Wells

Research Scientist

John Custer

Deputy Director, Communications and Data Analytics

Jonathan A. Solis

Research Scientist

Julie Sickell

Program Manager

Katherine Nolan

Research Scientist

Katherine Walsh

Senior Program Manager

Kelsey Marshall

Program Manager

Kunwar Singh

Senior Geospatial Scientist

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

Senior Research Scientist

Rory Fedorochko

Junior Program Manager

Sailor Miao

Associate 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

External Authors of AidData Papers

Alex Braithwaite

Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Arizona

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

Arilton Teixeira

Director of FUCAPE Business School

Austin Strange

Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong

Axel Dreher

Professor of Economics and Chair of International and Development Politics at Heidelberg University

Brigitte Seim

Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Carrie Dolan

Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Health Sciences at the College of William & Mary

Charles Becker

Research Professor of Economics at Duke University

Christopher Kilby

Associate Professor of Economics at the Villanova School of Business at Villanova University

Dan Nielson

Professor and Associate Chair of Political Science at Brigham Young University

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

Darren Hawkins

Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University

David Lobell

Professor in Earth Systems Science at Stanford University

Elizabeth Carlson

Assistant Professor in Political Science and the Program on African Studies at Pennsylvania State University

Erasmus Kersting

Assistant Professor of Economics at Villanova University

Erik Wibbels

Professor of Political Science at Duke University

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)

John Swaddle

Professor of Biology at the College of William & Mary

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

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 Lee

Executive Director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago in India (EPIC-India)

Kosuke Imai

Professor in the Department of Politics and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning at Princeton University

Lisa Mueller

Assistant Professor of Political Science at Macalester College

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

Matthew Winters

Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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

Philip Roessler

Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for African Development (CAD) at the College of William & Mary

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

Roland Hodler

Professor of Economics at the University of Lucerne

Ryan Jablonski

Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Samuel Brazys

Associate Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin

Scott Ickes

Assistant Professor of Health Services at the University of Washington School of Public Health

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)

Sven Wilson

Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University

Timmons Roberts

Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at Brown University

Victoria Fan

Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development

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