Kevin P. Gallagher

Dr. Kevin P. Gallagher is a professor of global development policy at Boston University (BU), where he directs the Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center).  The GDP Center’s mission is to advance policy relevant research for financial stability, human wellbeing, and the environment across the globe through rigorous research, policy dialogue, and strategic communications.

Dr. Gallagher is the author or co-author of nine books: Re-building the International Financial Architecture: Southern Foundations for Global Development, China and the International Economic Order, The Case for a New Bretton Woods, The China Triangle, Ruling Capital, The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization, The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico’s Silicon Valley, and Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond.

Dr. Gallagher served as a lead expert to the Brazilian Presidency of the G20 on Multilateral Development Bank Reform and led the Club de Madrid’s Working Group on reform of the International Financial Architecture in 2024 and 2025.  He sits on the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development and recently served on the Chair’s Council of the United States Export Import Bank on China competition. He has served on the T20 International Finance Task Force to the G20, the United Nations Committee for Development Policy, the U.S. Department of State’s Investment Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy and the National Advisory Council on trade policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

He has been 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.

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