Colin Bradford, Background

Colin Bradford is a CIGI senior fellow and a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings. He is a member of CIGI’s G20 program committee and project leader of the CIGI-Brookings NPGL project. The NPGL Soundings series enlists experts from a dozen G20 countries to observe and assess, through the lenses of media in their national capitals, the performance of G20 leaders at summits. Colin has authored numerous articles on international economic policy and development issues, and is the editor of 12 conference volumes on major international challenges. In 2007, with Johannes Linn, he co-edited Global Governance Reform: Breaking the Stalemate (Brookings Press) and in 2011, with Wonhyuk Lim, he co-edited Global Leadership in Transition: Making the G20 More Effective and Responsive (Brookings Press). Both volumes resulted from conferences involving CIGI.

Prior to joining CIGI and Brookings, Colin had a long career in the US government, international organizations and academic institutions. A presidential appointee in the Clinton administration from 1994 to 1998, Colin served as chief economist of USAID. From 1990 to 1994, Colin was head of research at the Development Centre of the OECD in Paris. Before that, he was the senior staff member in charge of the international economic outlook work of the World Bank’s Strategic Planning Division.

From 1978 to 1988, Colin was associate director of the Yale Center for International Studies and he was also associate professor in the practice of international economics. He was the first associate fellow at the Overseas Development Council and director of the Office of Multilateral Development Banks in the US Treasury.

Colin holds a B.A. in history from Yale, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University. He is fluent in English, Spanish and French.