Faculty & Research Fellows

gui2de’s faculty affiliates and research fellows are leading experts in fields related to international development, conducting research with the mission of improving people’s lives.

Our interdisciplinary faculty and researchers come from multiple Georgetown schools and departments, including the McCourt School, the College of 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

Christopher F. Gallagher Family Professor of Government

Jacobus Cilliers

Associate Teaching Professor

Jishnu Das

Distinguished Professor

Raj Desai

Co-Director, Masters in International Business and Policy Program

Shantayanan Devarajan

Professor of the Practice
Chair, International Development Concentration

Caue Dobbin

Assistant Professor

Nada Eissa

Associate Professor

Garance Genicot

Professor

James Habyarimana

Distinguished Professor

Billy Jack

Professor of Economics | Chair, Department of Economics

Sebastian Jilke

Professor

Shareen Joshi

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

Amrita Kundu

Assistant Professor

Irfan Nooruddin

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

Juan Felipe Riaño

Assistant Professor

Lahra Smith

Associate Professor

Jennifer Tobin

Associate Professor

Rajesh Veeraraghavan

Associate Professor

Franck Wiebe

Professor of the Practice of Public Policy

Andrew Zeitlin

Associate Professor

Research Fellows

Gerald Ipapa

Postdoctoral Fellow