Facts: - caption: donald director of the global human development program f. mchenry chair in global human development and - institution: georgetown university - field: international aid development , macroeconomics , economic growth , foreign - name: steven radelet - nationality: united states - image: stevenradelet.png - alma mater: central michigan university harvard university Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of steven radelet .
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steven radelet is an american economist working within the field of international development .he holds the donald f. mchenry chair in global human development and is also the director of the global human development program -lrb- ghdp -rrb- at georgetown university , a program of the edmund a. walsh school of foreign service .president ellen johnson sirleaf of liberia called radelet '' one of the leading development thinkers and practitioners in the world today . ''he has worked as an adviser to governments , in academia at georgetown and harvard university , and in senior-level u.s. government positions at usaid , the state department and the treasury .in addition to his experience as a practitioner , he has published and contributed to a number of books and articles in academic journals and fora .