John W. Sewell

Mr. Sewell, for over two decades, was President of the Overseas Development Council where he oversaw policy research and analysis on U.S. development interests. He has written extensively on the reform of the American foreign aid program. He has lectured frequently at major universities, government agencies and private institutions and has often testified at the request of the US Congress. He is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee and serves on advisory panels of the World Resources Institute, the Carter Center, the Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame and World Hunger Year. Earlier in his career Mr. Sewell worked at the Brookings Institution and as a Foreign Service Office of the Department of State.