Vijaya Ramachandran

Senior Fellow
vramachandran@cgdev.org

Expertise

Foreign direct investment, entrepreneurship, private sector development, Africa, AIDS

Research Topics

Background

Vijaya Ramachandran is a CGD Senior Fellow. Her areas of expertise are private sector development, entrepreneurship, and foreign direct investment. She manages CGD's corporate engagement efforts which focus on a menu of options by which the private sector can join the fight against global poverty and also oversees CGD's work program on fragile states. Most recently, Vijaya's research is focused on the analysis of enterprise survey data from several countries sub-Saharan Africa, identifying the constraints to doing business from the perspective of the private sector. Prior to joining CGD, Vijaya served on the faculty of Georgetown University, and also worked at the World Bank, the Executive Office of the UN Secretary General, and at Duke University. She is the author of Investing in Africa: Strategies for Private Sector Development (2000), co-editor with Nicolas van de Walle and Nicole Ball of Beyond Structural Adjustment (2003), and has written numerous articles on private sector development in Africa. Vijaya received her PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University in 1991.