Landry Signé is a Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for African Studies, Professor of Political Science and Senior Adviser to the Chancellor and Provost on International Affairs at the University of Alaska Anchorage, Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Fellow, Chairman of the Global Network for Africa’s Prosperity, and Special Adviser to African and global lead-

ers. He is the author of numerous key publications in the political economy of development with a focus on Africa and has a special interest in the politics of economic reform, institutional change, emerging and frontier markets, global political economy, post-conflict reconstruction, political regimes, state capacity, public service delivery, and governance. He is the recipient of more than sixty prestigious awards and distinctions from four continents, and has been honored as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Desmond Tutu Fellow, and Andrew Carnegie Fellow and was listed as one of the “Top Ten Outstanding Young Persons in the World.” His work has appeared in the New York Times, the

Washington Post, and the Harvard International Review, among other media.

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