Carol Adelman

Dr. Carol Adelman is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Global Prosperity (CGP) at Hudson Institute where she lectures, writes, and advises governments and media on economic growth, foreign aid, global philanthropy, and international healthcare issues. She developed and oversees the main publication of the CGP, the annual Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances, the first comprehensive compilation of U.S. and other donor countries' international private giving to the developing world. Dr. Adelman was previously a career foreign service officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), living and working in Africa, Latin America, and Asia and served as assistant administrator at USAID, in charge of all foreign aid programs to Asia, the Middle East, and Central and Eastern Europe. She has also headed international services for consulting companies and identified investment opportunities and capital for private U.S. companies in overseas hospitals, insurance companies, and healthcare systems.

Dr. Adelman is the author/editor of numerous works on economic growth, foreign aid, trade, and global health for national publications and technical journals. She has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and International Herald Tribune. She has published a book, International Regulation: New Rules in a Changing World Order, and contributed a chapter to International Development: Ideas, Experiences, and Prospects, a comprehensive review of economic development supported by Canada’s International Development Research Centre. Dr. Adelman holds a Doctorate and Masters of Public Health from John Hopkins University and a Masters in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.