Landry Signe Author

Landry Signé is a David M. Rubenstein Fellow at the Global Economy and Development and Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution, Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University's Center for African Studies, Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Chairman of the Global Network for Africa's Prosperity, Professor and Senior Adviser to the Chancellor at UAA, Special Adviser to Global Leaders, and was a Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Fellow, and Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford. He is the author of numerous key publications in the political economy of development with a focus on Africa and has a special interest in the politics of economic reform, regional integration, institutional change, business in emerging and frontier markets, global political economy, governance, state capacity and fragility, political regimes, public service delivery and the fourth industrial revolution. He is the recipient of more than sixty awards and recognitions from four continents. He has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader for 'finding innovative solutions to some of the world's most pressing issues', as an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellow who 'drives the transformation of Africa,' and was named one of the 'Top 10 Outstanding Young Persons in the World.' He has authored numerous key publications, including Innovating Development Strategies in Africa (Cambridge, 2017). His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, and Harvard International Review.