Nancy Birdsall

So I've worked at seven.

I helped Nancy Birdsall grow the Center for Global Development.

I launched and built my own Think Tank, the Energy for Growth Hub.

I'm now affiliated with three today, and I'm on the board of one in Ghana and one in Britain.

Some, they want a report where they can put their logo.

But I really think the bigger part is about some think tanks have lost that culture of impact and creating internal incentives for staff to to get stuff done rather than get their name in the newspaper or sit next to the retired Secretary of State on a stage or something like that.

And I really learned a lot of that from Nancy Birdsall at CGD, who really, she wanted you to write good, robust analytical work, but what she really cared about was how people were using your work.

And I've tried to draw lessons from Nancy and some of the other think tanks that I've worked at to really build the Energy for Growth Hub to be a very specific kind of think tank, which is small.