Carol C. Adelman

Carol Adelman directs Hudson Institute's Center for Global Prosperity, producing the Index of Global Philanthropy, the sole comprehensive guide to U.S. and other industrialized countries' private giving - both philanthropy and remittances - to developing countries. She writes and speaks regularly on economic development, foreign aid, global philanthropy, international health, and leadership and management issues.

Dr. Adelman serves as vice chair of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACFVA) to the U.S. Agency for International Development, the official aid program of the U.S. Government. Previously, she was vice chair of the U.S. Government HELP Commission, a bipartisan appointed commission to reform foreign aid. As assistant administrator of USAID from 1988 to 1993, she ran aid programs in Asia, the Middle East, and Central and Eastern Europe when the Wall fell.

Over the past 30 years, she has served as director, consultant, and member in numerous non-profit organizations, including the Center for International Private Enterprise of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Atlantic Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the American Red Cross. From 2003 to 2007 she was president of Capital Partners for Education, a charity that provides high school scholarships and mentors for low-income children in the Washington, D.C. area, and she continues service to Capital Partners as a board member.

Her doctorate and masters degrees in public health are from the Johns Hopkins University; her masters degree in foreign service, from Georgetown University; and her bachelors degree in political science and German, from the University of Colorado and Bonn University in Germany.

Dr. Adelman appears on radio and television, including CNN, PBS, Fox News, C-Span, and BBC, and is a frequent speaker at international development conferences and seminars. On PBS, Dr. Adelman was featured on The Great Decisions Television Series episode on Philanthropy and the Rise of Global Giving.

She has been the author and editor of numerous works on economic development, foreign aid, trade, and global health, and has written The New International Regulatory Order: New Rules in a Changing World Order (1988). Her articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Harvard International Review, the Lancet, British Medical Journal, Christian Science Monitor and the International Herald Tribune.

Carol Adelman interviewed in the Financial Times