Dennis de Tray began working on development issues at the RAND Corporation, a U.S.-based think tank. After 12 years with RAND, Dr. de Tray joined the World Bank to take over management of the Bank’s Living Standard Measurement Survey. Following the successful launch of LSMS, he became the Bank’s Research Administrator, overseeing its centrally funded research. In 1992 he moved from research to the Bank’s operations complex, and, in 1997, became the first decentralized country director for Indonesia. Dr. de Tray has worked and lived in a number of developing countries, including Vietnam, as the IMF Senior Representative, and in Kazakhstan as the World Bank’s country director for the five Central Asian Republics. After 23 years at the Bank, 12 of them in the field, he joined the Center For Global Development, a Washington-based think tank, as the Center’s first Vice President.

He is now a Principal with the Results for Development Institute. His recent and ongoing projects include work on Southern Africa and with the governments of Kazakhstan and Timor-Leste on strategic planning.

He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.