Faculty & Fellows

The interdisciplinary Initiative spans five schools and multiple departments, drawing over twenty faculty affiliates from the McCourt School, the College and Arts & Sciences’ Departments of Economics and Government, the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, the McDonough School of Business, and the Georgetown University School of Health.

Faculty

Laia Balcells

Professor | Director of Admissions, Fellowships & Placement

Jacobus Cilliers

Associate Teaching Professor

Jishnu Das

Distinguished Professor

Raj Desai

Professor | PECO Field Chair
Co-Director, Masters in International Business and Policy Program

Shantayanan Devarajan

Professor of the Practice
Chair, International Development Concentration

Caue Dobbin

Assistant Professor

Garance Genicot

Professor

James Habyarimana

Co-Founder

Sebastian Jilke

Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor

Shareen Joshi

Associate Professor
Visiting Senior Fellow, London School of Economics (2024-2026)

Amrita Kundu

Assistant Professor

Irfan Nooruddin

Professor
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Professor of Indian Politics

Ken Opalo

Associate Professor

Vanessa Opalo

Assistant Professor at the School of Foreign Service

Bhumi Purohit

Assistant Professor

John Quattrochi

Associate Professor | GLOH Program Director

Juan Felipe Riaño

Assistant Professor

Lahra Smith

Associate Professor and Director, African Studies Program

Jennifer Tobin

Associate Professor

Rajesh Veeraraghavan

Associate Professor

Franck Wiebe

Professor of the Practice of Public Policy

Andrew Zeitlin

Associate Professor

Fellows & Affiliates

Gerald Ipapa

Postdoctoral Fellow

Michelle Kaffenberger

Senior Fellow