Foreign aid serves as a catalyst for global progress, providing essential resources, expertise, and support to countries striving to improve the well-being of their populations and achieve sustainable development goals. At this King Center on Global Development event, Dean Karlan, Professor of Economics at Northwestern University and Chief Economist at USAID, and Katherine Casey, Faculty Director of the King Center, will explore the role of foreign aid in development—what’s working, what’s not, and why it matters.

Schedule
4:30 PM–5:00 PM: Registration and reception
5:00 PM–6:00 PM: Talk by Dean Karlan, moderated by Katherine Casey

About the Speaker

Dean Karlan serves as the Agency Chief Economist and leads USAID's Office of the Chief Economist and is the Frederic Esser Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Economics and Finance at Northwestern University, co-Director with Nancy Qian and Christopher Udry of the Global Poverty Research Lab at Northwestern University. He is also the Founder and former President of Innovations for Poverty Action, a non-profit organization dedicated to discovering and promoting solutions to global poverty problems.

About the Moderator

Katherine Casey is a professor of political economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Faculty Director of the King Center on Global Development. Her research explores interactions between economic and political forces in low-income countries, with particular interest in strategies to improve governance and spur local economic development. Her work has appeared in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Science, among others.