George Ingram’s professional career—in Congress, the executive branch, and the non-profit sector—has focused on international economic and development policy. He is a senior fellow with the Center for Sustainable Development, part of the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution.
From 1973 to 1995 Mr. Ingram was a senior staff member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, responsible for international economic and development issues. Mr. Ingram served from 1995 to 1998 as vice president of Citizens Democracy Corps. From 1998 to 2000, he was principal deputy assistant administrator of the Agency for International Development with primary responsibility for U.S. assistance programs in the former Soviet Union. From 2001-2011 he worked at AED, first as founding director of the Basic Education Coalition, subsequently as founding director of the Education Policy and Data Center, and then as senior vice president for public policy and briefly as interim president and CEO.
He services on the boards of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, Executive Council on Diplomacy, the Dockery Farm Foundation, and Friends of Publish What You Fund, and the Steering Committee of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network.
