Dan is an Assistant Professor of International Development at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development. His research focuses on the relationship between organizational structure, management practice, and performance in developing country governments and organizations that provide foreign aid. Dan’s worked for NGOs, aid agencies, and/or developing country governments for extended periods in Liberia, East Timor, Thailand, India, and Israel, in addition to shorter periods in a number of other countries. He is the author of Navigation by Judgment: Why and When Top-Down Control of Foreign Aid Won’t Work (Oxford University Press, 2018), among other works.
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