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Nancy Birdsall Editor & Author

Nancy Birdsall is president of the Center for Global Development. She was formerly with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and executive vice president of the Inter-American Development Bank. She is the author of numerous publications on labor markets, human resources, economic inequality, and other development issues. Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, editor of Nation-Building: Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq, and coeditor of East Asian Multilateralism: Prospects for Regional Stability, both also published by Johns Hopkins.