Plenary session
Past Lessons and Reflections on Aid Effectiveness

Patricia Justino

Professor Patricia Justino is a development economist who works at the interface between Development Economics and Political Science. She is a leading expert on political violence and development, and the co-founder and co-director of the Households in Conflict Network. She is currently Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in Brighton, UK (on leave). Professor Justino has led major research programmes funded by the European Commission, the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID). She is currently the director of a ESRC large grant project on the relationship between inequality, social trust and governance outcomes. 
Her research has been published in leading international journals such as the Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Peace Research, and the World Bank Economic Review, and is the lead author of A Micro-Level Perspective on the Dynamics of Conflict, Violence and Development (Oxford University Press). Professor Justino holds a MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Economics from the University of London. She has held visiting positions at Harvard University (2007-09) and the European University Institute (2017), among others.

David Carment

David Carment is full professor of international affairs at Carleton University. He is series editor for Palgrave’s Canada and International Affairs, editor of Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, a Fellow at the Institue for Peace and Diplomacy and Fellow of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. David’s research focuses on Canadian foreign policy, mediation and negotiation, fragile states and diaspora politics. He is the author, editor or co-editor of 22 books and has authored or co-authored over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. His most recent books focus on diaspora cooperation, corruption in Canada, branding Canadian foreign policy and state fragility. In 2017, Carment was a visiting scholar at the World Institute for Development Economics Research, Finland and in 2015 a Fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Germany. His most recent book is Exiting the Fragility Trap:Rethinking Our Approach to the World’s Most Fragile States. He is principal investigator of CIFP www.carleton.ca/cifp.

Rachael Calleja

Rachael Calleja is a Senior Research Associate in CGD’s UK and European Development Leadership programme. Prior to joining CGD, she held research roles with the Overseas Development Institute and the Canadian International Development Platform. 
Rachael holds a PhD in International Affairs from Carleton University, Canada. Her research focuses primarily on issues of aid effectiveness, donor motivations,  and the strategy, management and organization of bilateral development agencies.
Rachael is also a Fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University.

Rachel M. Gisselquist

Rachel M. Gisselquist is a Senior Research Fellow with the United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), and member of the senior management team. She is a political scientist and international development professional with two decades of experience in academia, applied policy research, and international research management. Her work focuses on issues of inequality, ethnic and identity politics, the state and statebuilding, development cooperation, and governance and democracy, with particular attention to sub-Saharan Africa. At UNU-WIDER, she currently leads/co-leads five projects, including The State and Statebuilding in the Global South – International and Local Interactions; Addressing Group-based Inequalities; and The Impact of Inequality on Growth, Human Development, and Governance @EQUAL, and serves as a member of the Steering Group for SA-TIED, a programme of UNU-WIDER, the South African National Treasury, and other partners, on inclusive economic development in South Africa. Her work is published in leading international journals such as World Development, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, as well as in multiple edited volumes. She is co-author the first two editions of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance, an established reference on governance. She holds a PhD from MIT and a Master of Public Policy (MPP) from Harvard.

Andrea Vaccaro

Andrea Vaccaro is a Visiting Researcher at UNU-WIDER, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Insubria, and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Sapienza University of Rome. His research interests lie primarily at the crossroads between comparative politics and global development, with a particular focus on the links between the state, political regimes, and development outcomes, as well as measurement, and quantitative methods. Dr Vaccaro holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Helsinki, a master’s degree in Development and International Cooperation from the Sapienza University of Rome, and a PhD in Applied Social Sciences from the Sapienza University of Rome. During his doctoral studies, he also spent time as a Visiting PhD Fellow at UNU-WIDER and as a Visiting PhD Researcher at the Quality of Government Institute, University of Gothenburg. His research has been published in internationally recognized academic journals such as European Political Science, Journal of International Development, Quality & Quantity, and Italian Political Science Review and media outlets such as The Conversation and The Loop.