Daniel FitzGerald Runde

Daniel FitzGerald Runde (born January 21, 1972 in Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, United States) is a senior executive, strategist and expert in international development, trade investment, global business and organizational change who builds dynamic partnership alliances among governments, multi-lateral institutions, corporations, and philanthropies.

Currently, Runde is Director of the Project on Prosperity and Development and holds the William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).^[1] His work centers on America leveraging its full set of soft power instruments and the central roles of the private sector and good governance in creating a more free and prosperous world. CSIS provides strategic insights and bipartisan policy solutions to decision makers in government, international institutions, the private sector, and civil society. His priority is to ensure that the United States possesses the tools necessary to remain the preeminent player in global development in the 21st century and is positioned to achieve its foreign policy and national security goals.

In a bi-partisian manner, Runde has influenced leading development issues including the trade and aid nexus, domestic resource mobilization, governance and corruption, and development finance. He disseminated research and championed recommendations for the reallocation of US assistance resources for developing country financial management systems rather than direct service and social infrastructure, which can be funded through in-country tax dollars. Runde’s evidence based approach was central to persuading the Department of State to allocate aid resources to promote domestic resource mobilization (the use of tax revenue) to pay for social sector spending, since emerging economies generate significant taxes and recurring fees to fund programs important to local citizens.^[2]

He has advised a number of governments including the United States, Canada, Korea and Denmark as well as the World Bank and United Nations on development policy. In 2011, he played a central role in persuading the U.S. Congress to renew United States support for the World Bank and other multi-lateral banks.^[3] His testimony was made before the U.S. Congress. He has also testified before the Canadian Parliament on the role of the private sector and Canadian development policy as well as the Australian Parliament on the role of its international development policy in the Asia Pacific region.^[4][5]

In 2013, Runde’s contributions were an important factor in the World Bank President’s decision to retain the Doing Business Index, a central pillar of the World Bank’s work.^[6] Runde spearheaded a parallel independent review of the Doing Business Indicators, which persuaded World Bank stakeholders, the Obama Administration, and other influencers to maintain the current state of the indicators. He provided in-depth analysis and framed the debate by convening top thinkers, hosting an in-depth conference on the topic, providing testimony in front of an official World Bank review committee, and initiated a number of Op-Eds.

Previously, he led the Foundations Unit for the Department of Partnerships & Advisory Service Operations at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. He developed, led, and managed outreach efforts to successfully position IFC as a partner of choice for private and corporate philanthropy. His work facilitated and supported over $20M in new funding through partnerships with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Kauffman Foundation, and Visa International among other global private and corporate foundations.

Earlier, Runde was the Director of the Office of Global Development Alliances (GDA) at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) where he managed a $10–20M annual budget for partnership activities internationally. He represented the U.S. Government to senior leaders of foreign governments, corporations, and foundations. Runde led the GDA partnership initiative by providing training, networks, staff, funds, and advice to establish and strengthen alliances while personally consulting to 15 USAID missions in Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. His efforts leveraged $4.8B through 100 direct alliances and 300 others through training and technical assistance.

He began his career in financial services at Alex. Brown & Sons, Inc. in Baltimore and worked for both CitiBank and BankBoston in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Runde is a contributor at Forbes.com and has been quoted in Bloomberg, the Financial Times, Politico, and NPR. He writes and speaks extensively on global development and US foreign policy at symposia including the World Economic Forum for which he also serves as a member of its Global Agenda Council on the United States. In 2010, Runde was named one of “40 under 40 in International Development in Washington” by the Devex Group.

The son of James A. Runde (former partner of Morgan Stanley, current board member at Kroger) and M. Barbara (FitzGerald) Runde, Daniel is married to Sonia (Cavallo) Runde (daughter of Domingo Cavallo, former Economy Minister and Foreign Minister of Argentina.)^[7] He and his wife have three children.

Education

• B.A. (cum laude) in government from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire (1994)
• Spanish studies (1996–1997), Universidad de Granada.
• MPP (1999) from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Activities

CSIS

• Director – Project Prosperity and Development – initiative that “works to improve America’s ability to use instruments of soft power to increase free trade, support economic growth, enlarge democracy and governance, and leverage the power of the private sector.” ^[8]
• Director – Project on U.S. Leadership in Development – initiative working to build “future of American leadership and its role in international development.” ^[9]

Society for International Development

• Chairman – Society for International Development – Washington Chapter (2011–2012 (as of October 15, 2012)) ^[10]
• Chaired 2011 Society for International Development July 2011 World Congress in Washington, DC.^[11]
• Life Member of the Council of Foreign Relations, "most influential foreign-policy think tank.” ^[12]

General capital increases for multilateral institutions

• Explanation of Bill^[13]
• Runde organized a seminar/hosted event for discussion of this bill^[14]
• Writing CSIS official position^[15]
• Testified before Congress (October 2011) – Runde testified before the House Committee on Financial Services committee, subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade to speak about the issue.^[16][17]

International relations

• Testified before the Canadian Parliament, Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development (December 13, 2011) – about the role of the private sector in achieving Canada's international development interests.^[18]
• In 2012, Runde was asked to join a delegation, led by Senator Norman Coleman, and organized by the ONE Campaign to visit Liberia and Ghana.^[19]
• Member of the Bretton Woods Committee^[20]

Popular media

Periodic appearances on Fox News, the Financial Times, and El Salvador.com, using Runde as an authority on development.

• NPR^[21]
• FOX^[22]
• ElSalvador.com^[23]
• Financial Times^[24]
• Omaha World Herald^[25]
• Interview by Angela Zarro^[26]
• Rachael Bade, The Washington Diplomat^[27]
• Margaux Alicea, US Sen.Lugar: Relations w/Middle-Income Econs Key for Security^[28]
• Sarah Murray, “Riding a wave of goodwill,” May 1, 2008^[29]
• Discussing Obama's choice for World Bank President – Jim Yong Kim, Dartmouth president, is Obama's choice for World Bank^[30]
• Remarks by Under Secretary for International Affairs Lael Brainard at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, October 2011^[31]
• “Ask the expert: Dan Runde explains the relationship between the private sector and development” One Campaign, June 16, 2012 ^[32]
• Rolf Rosenkranz, “Dan Runde: A development think tanker and doer, “ 7 July 2011^[33]

Earlier career

In 2002, Runde joined the US Agency for International Development at the early stages of the Global Development Alliance initiative. From 2005 to 2007, he was director of the Office of Global Development Alliances (GDA) at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). While at USAID, the GDA initiative was recognized by Harvard University as a runner-up for the Innovations in Government Award.^[34] Runde stated that Public-Private alliances were key to the success leading to this award. He is quoted in the report on Public Private alliances that the GDA put out on exactly this matter.^[35] The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Journal, the OECD Observer, also utilized Daniel Runde to explain this idea to its readers.^[36]

After the GDA Initiative, Daniel Runde was responsible for International Finance Corporation‘s (IFC) relations with private and corporate philanthropy at the IFC’s private-sector arm of the World Bank Group.^[37]

Runde worked in corporate finance at Alex. Brown and Sons (now part of Deutsche Bank) in Baltimore, Maryland (1994-1996). In Argentina, he worked as a consultant to BankBoston’s corporate foundation (1999-2000). He worked as an Assistant Vice President for Commercial Banking at Citibank in Buenos Aires (2000-2002).

Politics

• Runde served as a key foreign policy advisor and fundraiser for Governor Scott Walker’s 2016 presidential campaign.
• Runde serves as the chairperson for the international assistance working group within the John Hay Initiative (JHI), a network of foreign policy experts who have briefed or are advising many of the Republican candidates in the 2016 presidential election. Runde authored the international assistance chapter in the recently released JHI Book, Choosing to Lead: American Foreign Policy for a Disordered World.
• Runde chaired Republicans Abroad in Argentina from 1999–2000.^[38]
• On October 2011, Runde was named as member of Governor (Mitt Romney’s) Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory team as Co-Chair of Governor Romney’s International Assistance Working Group.^[39]

Honors

In 2010, named by DevEx as one of “40 under 40” in International Development.^[40]

Publications

• “Strategic Foreign Assistance Transitions, June 25, 2012 http://csis.org/publication/strategic-foreign-assistance-transitions (with others)
• Sharing Risk in a World of Dangers and Opportunities. Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic and International Studies. Retrieved 2012-01-15. (with others) (December 7, 2011) (PDF).
• Seizing The Opportunity in Public-Private Partnerships. Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic and International Studies. Retrieved 2012-01-15. (with others) (October 2011) (PDF).
• "The Global Development Alliance: Public-Private Alliances for Transformational Development," January 2006 http://idea.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/GDA_Report_Jan2006_Full.pdf
• "Making a World of Difference through Development Alliances," The Public Manager, Winter 2005–2006 http://www.thepublicmanager.org/docs_articles/archive/Vol34,2005/Vol34,Issue04/V34N4_MistakingAWorld_Runde.pdf
• "The public–private alliance model for development," Business and Development Discussion Papers, Paper No.7, June 2006,http://siteresources.worldbank.org/CGCSRLP/Resources/paper_07.pdf
• "Why they won," The Corporate Philanthropist, Spring 2007, Volume VII, Issue II, http://www.corporatephilanthropy.org/pdfs/corporate_philanthropist/CECP_Spring2007.pdf
• Enterprise Models in Corporate Citizenship, Business Civic Leadership Center, September 2008 report, http://bclc.uschamber.com/sites/default/files/documents/files/2008GlobalReportPDF.pdf

References

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN