Director, Center for Global Prosperity Hudson Institute

Dr. Carol Adelman is the director of the Center for Global Prosperity at the Hudson Institute, and publishes the annual Index of Global Philanthropy, the first comprehensive guide to private philanthropy and remittance flows abroad. She is president of Movers & Shakespeares, a leadership and management training company that instructs corporations, non-profits, government agencies, and business schools.

Dr. Adelman served as a career foreign service officer with USAID in the 1970s, where she lived in Africa and later designed and evaluated aid programs in Latin America and Asia. As a presidential appointee, she was an Assistant Administrator under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. Bush, in charge of foreign aid to Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe when the Wall fell. Dr. Adelman was appointed by the White House to the H.E.L.P Commission, a bipartisan congressionally mandated commission to reform foreign aid, where she served as its vice chair. She is currently vice chair of an advisory committee to the U.S. Agency for International Development, which runs the U.S. government foreign aid program.

She has written on foreign aid and philanthropy in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Wall Street Journal and various technical journals, as well as publishing a book, The New International Regulatory Order: New Rules in a Changing World Order. She is past president and board member of Capital Partners for Education, a local charity that provides scholarships and mentors to low-income children in the Washington, D.C. area. Dr. Adelman is a vice chairman of the Atlantic Council and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She holds a doctorate in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, a Masters in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, and a B.A. from the University of Colorado, including a year's study at the University of Bonn, Germany.