Gustav Ranis is the Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics at
Yale University. His main interests are third world development and the relations between rich and poor countries. He served as Assistant Administrator for Programs and
Policy in AID/Department of State during the Johnson Administration, ’65-’67, and has consulted on aid effectiveness for the World Bank, UNDP, the governments of Taiwan,
Ghana, the Philippines and Indonesia. He was the first Director of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, ’58-’61, and has spent sabbatical years as Visiting Ford
Foundation Professor in Mexico and Colombia. He was the Henry R. Luce Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies from 1996 to 2004 and a Carnegie
Corporation Scholar, working on the relationship between Economic Growth and Human
Development, from 2004 to 2006. He was a Distinguished Visitor under the Advisory
Panel on Chinese Economics Education, co-sponsored by the U.S. National Academy of
Science and China’s State Education Commission and has taught several times in China, at Beijing and Nankai Universities. He was in charge of the Bi-Centennial Symposium on Science, Technology and Development under the auspices of the National Academy of Science in 1976. He has more than 20 books and 300 articles on both theoretical and policy-related issues of development to his credit.