IFPRI Director General, Shenggen Fan, announced today that Professor Margaret McMillan will be the director of the Development Strategy and Governance Division, starting June 14, 2010. She is currently an associate professor of economics at Tufts University and a Faculty Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2005, she was named the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Professor McMillan has worked in several African countries including Botswana, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Mali, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa. Before coming to academia, she worked for a variety of organizations including the Peace Corps, Lehman Brothers, USAID, UNDP, the International Labor Organization and the World Bank.

She earned a PhD with distinction in economics from Columbia University, an MPA from Princeton University, and a BA in mathematics and economics from Boston University. She has published numerous journal articles on the impact of international trade, foreign investment, and food aid on developing countries.

For more information please visit: http://www.tufts.edu/~mmcmilla/index.html.