Director of Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Program
Sarah Jane Staats is director of CGD’s Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Initiative, a one-stop shop for information and policy analysis on the mission, mandate, and organizational structure of U.S. foreign aid and global development policy. Staats has written on aid effectiveness, the U.S. role in the international financial institutions, and the nexus of U.S. development policy, advocacy, and Congress. She previously served as CGD’s director of policy outreach where she led the Center’s engagement with the development policy community, especially senior staff in the U.S. Congress, the U.S. administration and development advocacy NGOs.