Gallagher Receives Research Grants to Support GEGI
Kevin Gallagher, Professor of Global Development Policy and Director of the Global Development Policy Center at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently received two grants to support the Global Economic Governance Initiative, now housed at the Pardee School’s new Global Development Policy Center.
A grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund will provide general support to all GEGI’s activities, and spearhead a new project with faculty from BU’s School of Public Health that will examine the impact of trade and investment treaties on access to medicines and medical technologies in developing countries.
A grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation sets up collaborative research arrangements with three Chinese research institutions to explore the opportunities and risks associated with Chinese global development finance.
The Global Development Policy Center, a Boston University-wide research center housed at Pardee School for Global Studies, focuses on policy-orientated research in the wide-ranging field of global development policy. The GDP Center’s mission ties directly into the Pardee School’s mission of advancing human progress by striving for intellectual leadership and global engagement.
Gallagher served on the U.S. Department of State’s Investment Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy and the International Investment Division of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. He has served as a visiting or adjunct professor at the Paul Nitze School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico; Tsinghua University in China; and the Center for State and Society in Argentina.