Raj Desai
Department of Government
School of Foreign Service
Raj Desai is associate professor of international development in the Asian Studies Program in the School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government in the College of Arts & Sciences. He joined the Georgetown faculty in 1999.
International activities include:
- Works as a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and an affiliated researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics.
- Co-authored After the Spring: Economic Transitions in the Arab World (2012) and The World Bank's World Development Report: A Better Investment Climate for Everyone (2005) and coedited Can Russia Compete? (2008) and Between State and Market: Mass Privatization in Transition Economies (1997).
- Contributed to the efforts to privatize and restructure public enterprises in post-Soviet Eastern Europe while working at the World Bank.
- Served as occasional consultant to the World Bank Group, the Asian Development Bank, the UNDP, and other international organizations.
- Published over 20 articles in journals and books on international development and political economy.
