Center for Global Development

think tank

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Abbreviation	CGD
Motto	Independent research and practical ideas for global prosperity.
Formation	2001
Headquarters	2055 L Street NW
Type	think tank
Interests	globalisation
Membership	Lawrence H. Summers,Edward Scott ,Amrita Ahuja,Caroline Atkinson,Bertrand Badré,Afsaneh Beschloss,Nancy Birdsall,Brian Deese,Mary-Ann Etiebet,Debra Fine,Tony Fratto,Stephen T. Isaacs,Donald Kaberuka,David Marchick,Robert McCarthy,Luis Alberto Moreno,Bobby J. Pittman,Shubhi Rao,Karen Spencer,Judy Woodruff,,Kehinde Ajayi,Dany Bahar,Pete Bake,Akhil Bansal,Biniam Bedasso,Jonathan Beynon,Rachel Bonnifield,Mary Borrowman,Mayra Buvinic,Rachael Calleja,Mauricio Cárdenas,Han Sheng Chia,,Michael Clemens,Erin Collinson,Susie Colville,Lee Crawfurd,Helen Dempster,Tom Drake (CGD),Mikaela Gavas,,Alan Gelb,Thomas Gin,Rachel Glennerster,Markus Goldstein,Sanjeev Gupta,Kelsey Harris,Cindy Huan,Eeshani Kandpal,Anita Käppeli,Charles Kenny,Michael Kremer,Clemence Landers,Alexia Latortue,Nancy Lee,Mark Lowcock,Janeen Madan Keller,Stefano Manservisi,Karen Mathiase,Anthony McDonnell,Ian Mitchell,Radhika Nagesh,Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,Mead Over,Mark Plan,Liliana Rojas-Suarez,Leah R. Rosenzweig,Justin Sandefur,Daouda Sembene,Gabriela Smarrelli,Vera Songwe,Arvind Subramanian,Claus Sørensen,Andrés Velasco,Jürgen Zattler,Abha Mehndiratta,Branko Milanovic,Grant Miller,Nompumelel Mohohlwane,Teresa Molina,W. Gyude Moore,Todd Moss,Karen Mundy,Justice Nonvignon,Ole F. Norheim,Daniel Ollendorf,Ken Opalo,Ben Oppenheim,Leeza Osipenko.Nkechi Owoo,Agustina Paglayan,Susan W. Parker,Brad Parks,Giovanni Peri,Amber Peterman,Alix Peterson Zwane,Andrew Powell,Vijaya Ramachandran,Vijayendra Rao,Michael Reich,Andrew Rogerson,Mauricio Romero,Michael Ross (CGD),Ratna Sahay,Asif Saleh,Conor Savoy,Andrew Schrank,Stephanie Segal,Céline Senseney,Shekhar Shah,Bilal Siddiqi,Abhijeet Singh,Christopher Snyder,Richard Sulliv,Andy Sumner,Mary Svenstrup,Adrian Towse,Dominique van de Walle,Damian Walker,Evelyn Wamboye,Leonard Wantchekon,Jeremy Weinstein,Witold Więcek,Paul Winters,Brad Wong,Shahid Yusuf,Andrew Zeitlin,Xiaobo Zhang
US think tank "whose name might seem ironic given that it provides a platform for those promoting deadly economic coercion." Dabbles in pandemic planning.

The Center for Global Development (CGD) was founded in 2001 and describes itself as "an independent, not-for-profit think tank that works to reduce global poverty and inequality by encouraging policy change in the U.S. and other rich countries through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community".

It has been involved in several pandemic planning exercises.

Criticism

John Perry pointed out that its name "might seem ironic given that it provides a platform for those promoting deadly economic coercion."

Activities

The Center works to influence not only the policies and practices of countries but also global institutions such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization. The Center is supported by a significant contributions from private foundations, international organizations, governments, corporations and individuals and has an annual operating budget of more than $6 million.

One of its directors, Dany Bahar, in 2025 called for intensified sanctions against the Venezuelan government to stamp out the "temporary economic improvements” that the country is currently enjoying."

People

Board and "experts" as of April 2025.

• Alexander B Cummings is reported to have worked on the Center for Global Development's Commission on U.S. Policy toward Low-Income Poorly Performing States (LIPPS). Cummings has worked with the Coca Cola Company since 1997 and became the company's President and CEO (Africa Group) in 2001

Funding and Sponsorship

In January 2008, the CGD list the following as their sponsors.

ABN AMRO Bank, Agence Française de Développement, Anonymous Donor (2), Asian Development Bank, Australian Agency for International Development, Better World Fund, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Canadian International Development Agency, The Carnegie Corporation of New York, Citigroup Foundation, Colgate-Palmolive Company, Commonwealth Secretariat – UK, Conrad N Hilton Foundation, Covington and Burling, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Department for International Development -U.K., Development Alternatives Inc., Energy Futures Inc., Forum One Communications, The Initiative for Global Development, Global Development Network, The Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Grayson Family Foundation, Hurlburt-Johnson Charitable Trust/Peninsula Community Foundation, The Harmon Foundation, International Development Research Centre (Canada), International Institute of Economics, The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation, James P Grant Trust for International Social Development, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, The John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation, Magna International Inc., Make a Mark Foundation, Microsoft Corporation, Ministry for Foreign Affairs for Development Cooperation (Sweden), The Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Nike Foundation, Open Society Institute, Open Society Institute Development Foundation, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Rockefeller Foundation, Royal Danish Embassy, Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Norway, Smith Richardson Foundation Inc., Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, The Tinker Foundation Inc., United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Foundation, United Nations Office for Project Services, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The World Bank Group