Carol Lee Graham Joins CNA Board

Alexandria, VA. — A Brookings Institution scholar and University of Maryland professor, Carol Lee Graham, has joined CNA’s Board of Trustees.

"Carol Graham brings a unique perspective to CNA,” said Ambassador Rozanne Ridgway, chair of CNA’s Board of Trustees. “Her expertise in novel measures of well-being and metrics for assessing economic progress, as well as in development economics more generally, are a good fit with the CNA research agenda. Her experience in management at Brookings and in international financial institutions will also contribute to the work of the board.”  Graham was elected to the board in September 2011.

Graham is a senior fellow and holds the Charles Robinson Chair in Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings, where she has also served as a vice president and director of the Governance Studies Program; co-director of the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics; a senior fellow in Economic Studies; and a guest scholar for Foreign Policy Studies. She has been a University of Maryland Professor in the School of Public Policy at College Park since 2005, and has been College Park Professor since 2008.

She has also been affiliated with Johns Hopkins University, the International Monetary Fund, Inter-American Development Bank, The World Bank, the Harvard Institute for International Development, and Georgetown University over the course of her career. She has received support for her research from the MacArthur, Tinker, and Hewlett Foundations, and the National Institutes of Aging, among others.

Graham earned her bachelor’s degree with high honors in 1984 from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and received her master’s degree with distinction from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in International Economics/Latin American Studies. Her doctorate in Philosophy is from Oxford University, St. Antony's College, with a concentration in Political Economy/Economic Development/Latin America.