Center for Global Development

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Group.png Center for Global Development   WebsiteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
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AbbreviationCGD
MottoIndependent research and practical ideas for global prosperity.
Formation2001
Headquarters 2055 L Street NW
Type think tank
InterestsWikiProject Globalization Logo.svg globalisation
Sponsored byBill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Covington & Burling, DFID, Goldman Sachs, Hewlett Foundation, Microsoft, Norway/Ministry/Foreign Affairs, Open Philanthropy, Open Society Foundations, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, UNDP, World Bank
Membership• Lawrence Summers.jpg Lawrence H. Summers
•  Edward Scott
•  Amrita Ahuja
•  Caroline Atkinson
• Bertrand Badré.jpg Bertrand Badré
•  Afsaneh Beschloss
•  Nancy Birdsall
• Brian Deese 2022.jpg Brian Deese
•  Mary-Ann Etiebet
•  Debra Fine
•  Tony Fratto
•  Stephen T. Isaacs
• Donald Kaberuka.jpg Donald Kaberuka
•  David Marchick
•  Robert McCarthy
•  Luis Alberto Moreno
•  Bobby J. Pittman
•  Shubhi Rao
•  Karen Spencer
•  Judy Woodruff
•  Kehinde Ajayi
•  Dany Bahar
•  Pete Bake
•  Akhil Bansal
•  Biniam Bedasso
•  Jonathan Beynon
•  Rachel Bonnifield
•  Mary Borrowman
•  Mayra Buvinic
•  Rachael Calleja
•  Mauricio Cárdenas
•  Han Sheng Chia
•  Michael Clemens
•  Erin Collinson
•  Susie Colville
•  Lee Crawfurd
•  Helen Dempster
•  Tom Drake (CGD)
•  Mikaela Gavas
•  Alan Gelb
•  Thomas Gin
•  Rachel Glennerster
•  Markus Goldstein
• Sanjeev Gupta.jpg Sanjeev Gupta
•  Kelsey Harris
•  Cindy Huan
•  Eeshani Kandpal
•  Anita Käppeli
•  Charles Kenny
•  Michael Kremer
•  Clemence Landers
•  Alexia Latortue
•  Nancy Lee
•  Mark Lowcock
•  Janeen Madan Keller
•  Stefano Manservisi
•  Karen Mathiase
•  Anthony McDonnell
•  Ian Mitchell
•  Radhika Nagesh
• Okonjo-Iweala, Ngozi (2008 portrait).jpg Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
•  Mead Over
•  Mark Plan
•  Liliana Rojas-Suarez
•  Leah R. Rosenzweig
•  Justin Sandefur
•  Daouda Sembene
•  Gabriela Smarrelli
• Vera Songwe.jpg Vera Songwe
• Arvind Subramanian.jpg Arvind Subramanian
•  Claus Sørensen
•  Andrés Velasco
•  Jürgen Zattler
•  Abha Mehndiratta
•  Branko Milanovic
•  Grant Miller
•  Nompumelel Mohohlwane
•  Teresa Molina
•  W. Gyude Moore
•  Todd Moss
•  Karen Mundy
•  Justice Nonvignon
•  Ole F. Norheim
•  Daniel Ollendorf
•  Ken Opalo
•  Ben Oppenheim
•  Leeza Osipenko.Nkechi Owoo
•  Agustina Paglayan
•  Susan W. Parker
•  Brad Parks
•  Giovanni Peri
•  Amber Peterman
•  Alix Peterson Zwane
•  Andrew Powell
•  Vijaya Ramachandran
•  Vijayendra Rao
•  Michael Reich
•  Andrew Rogerson
•  Mauricio Romero
•  Michael Ross (CGD)
•  Ratna Sahay
•  Asif Saleh
•  Conor Savoy
•  Andrew Schrank
•  Stephanie Segal
•  Céline Senseney
•  Shekhar Shah
•  Bilal Siddiqi
•  Abhijeet Singh
•  Christopher Snyder
•  Richard Sulliv
•  Andy Sumner
•  Mary Svenstrup
•  Adrian Towse
•  Dominique van de Walle
•  Damian Walker
•  Evelyn Wamboye
•  Leonard Wantchekon
•  Jeremy Weinstein
•  Witold Więcek
•  Paul Winters
•  Brad Wong
•  Shahid Yusuf
•  Andrew Zeitlin
•  Xiaobo Zhang
US think tank "whose name might seem ironic given that it provides a platform for those promoting deadly economic coercion." Dabbles in pandemic planning.

The Center for Global Development (CGD) was founded in 2001 and describes itself as "an independent, not-for-profit think tank that works to reduce global poverty and inequality by encouraging policy change in the U.S. and other rich countries through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community"[1].

It has been involved in several pandemic planning exercises.

Criticism

John Perry pointed out that its name "might seem ironic given that it provides a platform for those promoting deadly economic coercion."[2]

Activities

The Center works to influence not only the policies and practices of countries but also global institutions such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization[3]. The Center is supported by a significant contributions from private foundations, international organizations, governments, corporations and individuals and has an annual operating budget of more than $6 million.

One of its directors, Dany Bahar, in 2025 called for intensified sanctions against the Venezuelan government to stamp out the "temporary economic improvements” that the country is currently enjoying."[4]

People

Board and "experts" as of April 2025.[5]

  • Alexander B Cummings is reported to have worked on the Center for Global Development's Commission on U.S. Policy toward Low-Income Poorly Performing States (LIPPS). Cummings has worked with the Coca Cola Company since 1997 and became the company's President and CEO (Africa Group) in 2001[6]

Funding and Sponsorship

In January 2008, the CGD list the following as their sponsors[7].

ABN AMRO Bank, Agence Française de Développement, Anonymous Donor (2), Asian Development Bank, Australian Agency for International Development, Better World Fund, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Canadian International Development Agency, The Carnegie Corporation of New York, Citigroup Foundation, Colgate-Palmolive Company, Commonwealth Secretariat – UK, Conrad N Hilton Foundation, Covington and Burling, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Department for International Development -U.K., Development Alternatives Inc., Energy Futures Inc., Forum One Communications, The Initiative for Global Development, Global Development Network, The Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Grayson Family Foundation, Hurlburt-Johnson Charitable Trust/Peninsula Community Foundation, The Harmon Foundation, International Development Research Centre (Canada), International Institute of Economics, The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation, James P Grant Trust for International Social Development, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, The John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation, Magna International Inc., Make a Mark Foundation, Microsoft Corporation, Ministry for Foreign Affairs for Development Cooperation (Sweden), The Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Nike Foundation, Open Society Institute, Open Society Institute Development Foundation, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Rockefeller Foundation, Royal Danish Embassy, Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Norway, Smith Richardson Foundation Inc., Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, The Tinker Foundation Inc., United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Foundation, United Nations Office for Project Services, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The World Bank Group


 

Events carried out

EventLocationDescription
A Spreading PlagueGermany
Munich
Munich Security Conference/2019
Tabletop simulation of a global biological warfare attack predicting an apocalyptic outcome. Included several senior pandemic planners. Held February 2019.
Preventing Global Catastrophic Biological RisksGermany
Munich Security Conference
Munich
Simulation of a global influenza pandemic predicting an apocalyptic outcome. Held February 2020, with a who-is-who of pandemic planners. Held February 2020.

 

Known members

9 of the 125 of the members already have pages here:

MemberDescription
Bertrand BadréFrench banker with SDS connections
Brian DeeseAmerican economic advisor to presidents. Revolving door to Blackrock. Attended the 2023 Bilderberg meeting.
Donald KaberukaRockefeller foundation economist picked as one of 4 African Union Special Envoys on Covid-19, took part in Catastrophic Contagion, "African henchman of the global mafia'"
Branko MilanovićSigned the call for a "People's Vaccine"
Luis Alberto MorenoWEF Trustee
Ngozi Okonjo-IwealaGAVI/SDS connected Nigerian banker, twice Nigeria's Minister of Finance, and possible deep state functionary
Vera SongweSignatory of the Document:Uniting Behind A People's Vaccine Against COVID-19.
Arvind SubramanianIndian economist who became the second Indian to attend the Bilderberg in 2023.
Lawrence SummersUS Deep State actor "I've always thought that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted"

 

Sponsors

EventDescription
Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationVery influential and rich foundation established to take leadership of global health.
Covington & BurlingWashington DC law firm with deep state connections
DFIDThe Department for International Development existed in the British Government from 1997 to 2020.
Goldman SachsInvestment bank so close to the real seat of US government authority that it has been accused of occupying it, leading to the creation of the term "Government Sachs".
Hewlett FoundationHuge foundation setting the agenda by funding lots of deep state projects.
MicrosoftStarted in 1975 with Paul Allen, Bill Gates developed Microsoft from a operating system maker of computers into one of the most prolific companies of all time, valued over $1 trillion, 3rd most valuable in the world. MS has over a billion in fines from corruption, mass surveillance violations & tax evasion. MS has market shares in dozens of markets, leading in the Platformization-epidemic of the 2010s started by big tech. It was the first partner in the NSA-PRISM program.
Norway/Ministry/Foreign AffairsA significant donor to NGOs and planning organizations. Many of the recipients dovetail with NATO objectives like regime changes and controlling the narrative.
Open PhilanthropyGrant maker funneling deep state money among other things to pandemic planning. Financed Event 201.
Open Society FoundationsA NGO operating in more countries than McDonald's. It has the tendency to support politicians (at times through astroturfing) and activists that get branded as "extreme left" as its founder is billionaire and bane of the pound George Soros. This polarizing perspective causes the abnormal influence of the OSF to go somewhat unanswered.
Rockefeller Brothers FundRockefeller family "philanthropic" fund. One of the CIA's favorite cut-outs during the Cold War.
Rockefeller FoundationDeep state funding body started by John D. Rockefeller ("Senior"), his son John D. Rockefeller Jr ("Junior"), and Frederick Taylor Gates in New York on May 14, 1913
UNDP"Empowered lives. Resilient nations." First three administrators had all previously been to the Bilderberg...
World Bank
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References

  1. Center for Global Development About CGD Accessed 22nd January 2008
  2. https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/06/dc-think-tanks-make-people-poorer/
  3. Center for Global Development CGD Brochure Accessed 22nd January 2008
  4. https://www.americasquarterly.org/article/stopping-venezuelas-exodus-hinges-on-restoring-hope/
  5. https://www.cgdev.org/page/board-directors
  6. Coca Cola Company Alexander S Cummings Accessed 22nd January 2008
  7. Center for Global Development Funders Accessed 22nd January 2008