Daniel FitzGerald Runde

Daniel FitzGerald Runde (born January 21, 1972 in Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, USA) is a senior executive, strategist and expert in international development, trade investment, global business and organizational change who builds dynamic partnership alliances among governments, multi-lateral institutions, corporations, and philanthropies.

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• Education
• CSIS
• Society for International Development
• General capital increases for multilateral institutions
• International relations
• Popular media
• Earlier career
• Politics
• Honors
• Publications
• References

Currently, Runde is Director of the Project on Prosperity and Development and holds the William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). His work centers on America leveraging its full set of soft power instruments and the central roles of the private sector and good governance in creating a more free and prosperous world. CSIS provides strategic insights and bipartisan policy solutions to decision makers in government, international institutions, the private sector, and civil society. His priority is to ensure that the United States possesses the tools necessary to remain the preeminent player in global development in the 21st century and is positioned to achieve its foreign policy and national security goals.

In a bi-partisan manner, Runde has influenced leading development issues including the trade and aid nexus, domestic resource mobilization, governance and corruption, and development finance. He disseminated research and championed recommendations for the reallocation of US assistance resources for developing country financial management systems rather than direct service and social infrastructure, which can be funded through in-country tax dollars. Runde’s evidence based approach was central to persuading the Department of State to allocate aid resources to promote domestic resource mobilization (the use of tax revenue) to pay for social sector spending, since emerging economies generate significant taxes and recurring fees to fund programs important to local citizens.

He has advised a number of governments including the United States, Canada, Korea and Denmark as well as the World Bank and United Nations on development policy. In 2011, he played a central role in persuading the U.S. Congress to renew United States support for the World Bank and other multi-lateral banks. His testimony was made before the U.S. Congress. He has also testified before the Canadian Parliament on the role of the private sector and Canadian development policy as well as the Australian Parliament on the role of its international development policy in the Asia Pacific region.

In 2013, Runde’s contributions were an important factor in the World Bank President’s decision to retain the Doing Business Index, a central pillar of the World Bank’s work. Runde spearheaded a parallel independent review of the Doing Business Indicators, which persuaded World Bank stakeholders, the Obama Administration, and other influencers to maintain the current state of the indicators. He provided in-depth analysis and framed the debate by convening top thinkers, hosting an in-depth conference on the topic, providing testimony in front of an official World Bank review committee, and initiated a number of Op-Eds.

Previously, he led the Foundations Unit for the Department of Partnerships & Advisory Service Operations at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. He developed, led, and managed outreach efforts to successfully position IFC as a partner of choice for private and corporate philanthropy. His work facilitated and supported over $20M in new funding through partnerships with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Kauffman Foundation, and Visa International among other global private and corporate foundations.

Earlier, Runde was the Director of the Office of Global Development Alliances (GDA) at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) where he managed a $10–20M annual budget for partnership activities internationally. He represented the U.S. Government to senior leaders of foreign governments, corporations, and foundations. Runde led the GDA partnership initiative by providing training, networks, staff, funds, and advice to establish and strengthen alliances while personally consulting to 15 USAID missions in Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. His efforts leveraged $4.8B through 100 direct alliances and 300 others through training and technical assistance.

He began his career in financial services at Alex. Brown & Sons, Inc. in Baltimore and worked for both CitiBank and BankBoston in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Runde is a contributor at Forbes.com and has been quoted in Bloomberg, the Financial Times, Politico, and NPR. He writes and speaks extensively on global development and US foreign policy at symposia including the World Economic Forum for which he also serves as a member of its Global Agenda Council on the United States. In 2010, Runde was named one of “40 under 40 in International Development in Washington” by the Devex Group.

The son of James A. Runde (former partner of Morgan Stanley, current board member at Kroger) and M. Barbara (FitzGerald) Runde, Daniel is married to Sonia (Cavallo) Runde (daughter of Domingo Cavallo, former Economy Minister and Foreign Minister of Argentina.) He and his wife have three children.