TRANSATLANTIC TASKFORCE ON DEVELOPMENT MEMBERS
The Honorable Jim Kolbe
Jim Kolbe joined The German Marshall Fund of the United States as aSenior Transatlantic Fellow to work on issues related to international
trade and development. He is spearheading GMF’s Transatlantic
Taskforce on Development, which is examining the effectiveness ofdevelopment assistance. Prior to GMF, Mr. Kolbe spent 22 years inCongress, where he served on the Appropriations Committee of theHouse of Representatives, and, for the last six years, chaired the Foreign Operations, ExportFinancing and Related Agencies subcommittee. Mr. Kolbe graduated from Northwestern
University with a BA degree in Political Science and then from Stanford University with an
MBA and a concentration in economics.
Carol Lancaster
Carol Lancaster is Director of the Mortara Center for International
Studies and Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign
Service. Dr. Lancaster was the Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Agency
for International Development from 1993 to 1996. She worked at the U.S.
State Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African
Affairs from 1980-81 and for the Policy Planning Staff from 1977-80. Inaddition, she has been a Congressional Fellow and worked for the Office of Management andBudget. Her most recent books are “George Bush’s Foreign Aid”, “Aid to Africa”, and“Transforming Foreign Aid”. Current research: foreign aid; development and democracy inAfrica; and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) as political organizations.
Max Lawson
Max Lawson is a senior policy adviser at Oxfam Great Britain, and also
leads Oxfam International's policy work on aid and development
finance. He studied at the University of Sussex in the UK, and lived
and worked for three years in South Africa and then in Malawi. He has
worked for Oxfam since 2002, firstly in policy support to country
programmes, and then in advocacy and campaigns. As part of his country support he has
visited and worked with over twenty five country programmes across the world. In his workfor campaigns and advocacy, he has specialized in the World Bank and IMF, and also on the G8,
and was heavily involved in the Make Poverty History campaign in 2005.

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Andrew Small
Andrew Small joined the German Marshall Fund of the United States(GMF) in 2006 and coordinates GMF's new strand of work on Asia andtransatlantic relations, with a focus on China. He previously worked as
the director of the Foreign Policy Centre's Beijing office, and has also
been a visiting fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His
research has concentrated on Chinese foreign policy, with a particularfocus on U.S.-China relations, EU-China relations, and China's role in "problem" and fragile
states - including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Burma/Myanmar, North Korea, and Sudan. As
well as his work on China he has advised European governments on public diplomacy strategy
and was an ESU scholar in the office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy in the summer of 2001.
Jonathan White
Jonathan White joined the Economic Policy Program of the German
Marshall Fund in 2006. As manager of GMF’s Aid Project, he is
responsible for supporting on-going development programs andinitiatives

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sectordevelopment, and fragile states. Previously, Mr. White advised
governments on investment promotion and competitiveness strategies
for the consulting firm A.T. Kearney. In this capacity, he assisted the governments of Brazil,
Malaysia, China, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom and formulated economic, businessclimate, and industry-specific assessments that helped guide policy. Mr. White holds an M.A. inInternational Affairs from Johns Hopkins University and received his B.A. from Allegheny
College. He also completed course work at the London School of Economics and HarvardUniversity.