Easterly biography

(William R. Easterly, William Russell Easterly)

PERSONAL: Born in Morgantown, WV. Education:Bowling Green State University, B.A., ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D., Hobbies and other interests: Reading, music, cycling, roll-erblading, "neuro-surgery."

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of Economics, New York University, Mercer St., Rm. , New York, NY ; fax: E-mail—[email&#;protected].

CAREER: Economist, professor, editor, and writer. Data Resources, Inc., Cambridge, MA, economist for Latin American service, –81; El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, research fellow, –84; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, consultant to government of Jamaica, , teaching assistant, –85; World Bank, Washington, DC, economist in operations, –87, economist, , senior advisor, –; affiliated with Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC, and Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, –03; New York University, New York, NY, professor of economics and codirector of Development Research Institute, –; Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, senior fellow.

Georgetown University, Washington, DC, adjunct professor, , –98; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, adjunct professor, –95; University of Maryland, College Park, faculty visitor, Has also worked in Africa, Latin American, and Russia.

WRITINGS:

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(Editor, with Carlos Alfredo Rodríguez and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel) Public Sector Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance, Oxford University Press (New York, NY),

The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA),

(Editor, with Luis Servén) The Limits of Stabilization: Infrastructure, Public Deficits, and Growth in Latin America, Stanford University Press (Palo Alto, CA),

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much III and So Little Good, Penguin (New York, NY),

Also author of governm

Former American government official

Jen Easterly is an American intelligence officer and former military official who served as the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the Biden administration. She was confirmed by a voice vote in the Senate on July 12,

Early life and education

The daughter of an enlisted Vietnam War veteran, Easterly was raised in Potomac, Maryland and attended Winston Churchill High School and graduated as valedictorian in She earned a bachelor's degree from the United States Military Academy in and a Master of Arts in politics, philosophy, and economics from Pembroke College, Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Army career

Easterly served in the United States Army for twenty years and was an assistant professor of social sciences at the United States Military Academy. She was approved for promotion to major in , lieutenant colonel in and colonel in

From to , she was executive assistant to the National Security advisor. From to , she was a battalion executive officer and brigade operations officer in the th Military Intelligence Brigade, a subordinate unit of the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command. Easterly was deployed to Baghdad as chief of the cryptologic services group for the National Security Agency. She also worked for NSA's elite Tailored Access Operations.

From to , Easterly served on the United States Cyber Command, which she helped establish. From to , Easterly was a cyber advisor for the NSA stationed in Kabul. After retiring from the Army as a lieutenant colonel, she served as deputy director of the NSA for counterterrorism from May to October

Post-Army career

From October to February , Easterly was a special assistant to Pre

American development economist

William Russell Easterly (born September 7, ) is an American economist specializing in economic development. He is a professor of economics at New York University, joint with Africa House, and co-director of NYU’s Development Research Institute. He is a Research Associate of NBER, senior fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) of Duke University, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Easterly is an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Growth.

Easterly is the author of three books: The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (); The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (), which won the Hayek Prize; and The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor (), which was a finalist for the Hayek Prize.

Biography

Born in West Virginia and raised in Bowling Green, Ohio, Easterly received his B.A. from Bowling Green State University in and his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in From to he worked at the World Bank as an economist and senior adviser at the Macroeconomics and Growth Division; he was also an adjunct professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

Easterly then worked at the Institute for International Economics and the Center for Global Development until , when he began teaching at New York University.

Academic work

Easterly has worked in many areas of the developing world and some transition economies, most heavily in Africa, Latin America, and Russia.

Easterly is skeptical toward many of the trends that are common in the field of foreign aid. In The Elusive Quest for Growth, he analyzes the reasons why foreign aid to many third world countries has failed to produce sustainab