John McArthur

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Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development
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John McArthur is a senior fellow with the UN Foundation and the Fung Global Institute and a nonresident senior fellow in Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution. Formerly CEO of Millennium Promise and deputy director of the UN Millennium Project, he focuses on development economics, international organizations, and global policy mechanisms for supporting scale-up of successful activities. | View Full Bio

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Expertise

  • Development economics and global development policy
  • economic growth and competitiveness
  • the UN development system
  • foreign aid
  • multilateral development institutions
  • African economies
  • agriculture
  • global health
  • rural development
  • graduate education for sustainable development.

Experience

Current Positions

  • Senior Fellow, UN Foundation
  • Senior Fellow, Fung Global Institute

Past Positions

  • Deputy Director, UN Millennium Project
  • CEO, Millennium Promise
  • Policy Director, Earth Institute at Columbia University
  • faculty member, Columbia School of Public and International Affairs
  • Co-Chair, International Commission on Education for Sustainable Development Practice
  • Project Manager, Global Competitiveness Report
  • Research Fellow, Center for International Development at Harvard University.

Education

  • D.Phil (2009), M.Phil (2000), Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford
  • M.P.P. (1998), Harvard University
  • B.A. (Hons), University of British Columbia, 1996.

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