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Friday, November 20, 2009
 
 
SCHOLARS & FELLOWS
 
Mauro De Lorenzo
Visiting Scholar
 
 
RESOURCES
 
 
RESEARCH AREAS
 
  • Development aid
  • African domestic politics
  • African security issues
  • East and Central Africa (Rwanda, Congo, Burundi, Uganda)
  • Refugee and humanitarian policy
  • Chinese overseas investment
Contact E-mail: mauro.delorenzo@aei.org Phone: 202-419-5201 Fax: 202-862-7163 Assistant: David Peyton Assistant E-mail: david.peyton@aei.org Assistant Phone: 202-862-5946   Biography
 
Mauro De Lorenzo studies private sector-based approaches to development in post-conflict and post-Socialist countries, focusing on reforms that have made some developing countries attractive to foreign and domestic investment. He also researches Chinese investment and political influence outside the Pacific region, particularly in Africa; the design of policies that promote democratic accountability in aid-receiving countries; and refugee and humanitarian policy.
 
Experience
  • Special Assistant ("Plus One") to Senator Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), Millennium Challenge Corporation Board of Directors, 2007-present
  • Consultant, Rwanda and Liberia Presidential Advisory Teams, Brenthurst Foundation, 2007-present
  • Consultant, Afghan Construction Companies, Kabul, 2005
  • Associate Producer, "The Price of Aid," BBC/ARTE, 2002-2003
  • Analyst for Rwanda and Congo, Oxford Analytica, 2001-2004
  • Research Associate, American University in Cairo, 2001-2002
  • Research Associate, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Kampala, Uganda, 1999-2001
  • Refugee Elections Specialist, Refugee Policy Group, Monrovia, Liberia, 1997
  • Assistant to the Coordinator, Refugee Elections Steering Group, Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, 1996-97

 

 
Education
 
M.Sc., social anthropology, University of Oxford
M.A., linguistics; B.A., cognitive science, University of Delaware
 
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Articles and Commentary [List all]

Humanitarianism can cause political harm by distorting incentives and weakening structures of accountability.

The primary difficulties of Liberia's remote Maryland County relate to a lack of jobs.

Restoring the state to health can be seen as the beginning and the end of peace-building, but that omits the important role of economic growth.

 
 
Events [List all] Does Africa's Future Depend on Global Financial Institutions?

Dambisa Moyo, Nicholas Eberstadt, Paul Wolfowitz, and Mauro De Lorenzo will discuss the importance of global financial institutions in Africa's future.

Development Beyond Aid: Remaking U.S. Development Policy for a Changed World

Corporate Responsibility in an Era of New Internationalism

 
 
Speeches and Testimony China's Expanding Global Influence

Testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

Consolidating Peace and Security in the Great Lakes Region of Africa

Despite outward appearances of crisis, the prospects for sustained peace and security in the Great Lakes region of Africa are better today than at any time since the mid-1980s.

The Accountability Gap in Refugee Protection

There are ways to combat the troubling accountability gap in refugee protection in the developing world.