Background
Birdsall, Nancy was born on February 6, 1946.
Birdsall, Nancy was born on February 6, 1946.
Bachelor in American Studies, Newton College of the Sacred Heart, 1967. Master of Arts in International Relations, Johns Hopkins University, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, Yale University, 1979.
She co-founded CGD in November 2001 with C. Fred Bergsten and Edward West. Scott, Junior. Prior to becoming the President of CGD, Birdsall served for three years as Senior Associate and Director of the Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her work at Carnegie focused on issues of globalization and inequality, as well as on the reform of the international financial institutions.
From 1993 to 1998, At the Inter-American Development Bank, the largest of the regional development banks, she oversaw a $30 billion public and private loan portfolio.
Before joining the Inter-American Development Bank, Birdsall spent 14 years in research, policy, and management positions at the World Bank, most recently as director of the Policy Research Department. Birdsall is the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books and over 100 articles in scholarly journals and monographs, published in English and Spanish.
Shorter pieces of her writing have appeared in dozens of United States. and Latin American newspapers and periodicals. She has also been quoted in "The Onion."
Birdsall received a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from Yale University in 1979.
She also holds an Master of Arts in International Relations from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University that she received in 1969.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from Newton College of the Sacred Heart in 1967.