Kevin P. Gallagher

Kevin P. Gallagher is a professor of global development policy at Boston University (BU), where he directs the Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center). The GDP Center’s mission is to advance policy-relevant research for financial stability, human wellbeing, and the environment across the globe through rigorous research, policy dialogue, and strategic communications.

Gallagher is the author or co-author of seven books: The Case for a New Bretton Woods, The China Triangle, Ruling Capital, The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization, The Enclave Economy, and Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond. 

Gallagher served as a lead expert to the Brazilian Presidency of the G20 on Multilateral Development Bank Reform and leads the Club de Madrid’s Working Group on reform of the International Financial Architecture. He sits on the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development. He recently served on T20 Refueling Growth: Clean Energy and Green Transitions Task Force to the G20 India, and on the Chair’s Council of the United States Export Import Bank on China competition, and the international chair of the Greening the BRI Task Force of the China Council.  He has served on the T20 International Finance Task Force to the G20, the United Nations Committee for Development Policy, the U.S. Department of State’s Investment Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy and the National Advisory Council on trade policy at the Environmental Protection Agency. He has been a visiting or adjunct professor at the Paul Nitze School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico; Tsinghua University in China; and the Center for State and Society in Argentina.

As a UNU-WIDER Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, he is involved in the Reforming the international financial architecture.