Carol Graham

Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Carol Graham is a Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development and Foreign Policy Programs at the Brookings Institution, and holds the Charles Robinson Chair in Foreign Policy Studies. She is also a College Park professor at the University of Maryland.

She is the author of numerous books, including Happiness and Hardship: Opportunity and Insecurity in New Market Economies (with Stefano Pettinato, Brookings, 2002).

She is also the author of articles in journals including the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the World Bank Research Observer, the Journal of Socio-Economics, World Economics and Foreign Affairs.

Graham served as Vice President and Director of Governance Studies at Brookings from 2002-2004. She has also served as a Special Advisor to the Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund.

Graham, born in Lima, Peru, has an A.B. from Princeton University, an M.A. from The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a Ph.D. from Oxford University. She has three children.