Here is my most recent CV.

I am an Assistant Professor in Cornell University's Department of Government, where I teach classes on game theory and the political economy of developing countries. My research focuses on the effects of nontax revenues (such as from oil and foreign aid) on developing countries. My work has been or will soon be published in Business & Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Development Policy Review, Electoral Studies, International Organization, Public Choice, and World Bank Research Observer, as well as edited volumes.  My article in International Organization won the 2009 Robert O. Keohane award for best paper in that journal by an untenured professor.

At Cornell, I am Executive Director of the International Political Economy Program and affiliated with both the Institute for African Development and the Latin American Studies Program. I am also a member of the program faculty for the IGERT PhD Traineeship Program on Food Systems and Poverty Reduction. In addition, I am co-organizer of the Department of Government's speaker series, a member of the Foreign Policy Network, and affliated with the Center for the Study of Inequality and the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.

In addition to my academic work, I maintain an interest in communicating academic ideas to a policy-oriented audience. I am one of 55 "Delphi Fellows" chosen from across all scientific disciplines to advise the website bigthink.com, which attempts to convey signficant ideas to a large readership. I have also been a Fellow at the Overseas Development Council (ODC) and consulted for the World Bank and the Center for Global Development.  While at ODC, I co-authored (with Ravi Kanbur and Todd Sandler) The Future of Development Assistance: Common Pools and International Public Goods (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), and was a member of the core team of authors of the World Bank’s World Development Report 2000/01: Attacking Poverty, writing the chapters on the international actions necessary for poverty reduction.  I have also been a member of the Africa Task Force, a group of policymakers and academics co-directed by Kwesi Botchwey and Joseph Stiglitz at Columbia University’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue. My opinions or commentary have appeared in The Durham Herald-Sun, The Financial Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Raleigh News & Observer, and Slate.com.