Brian Levy

Co-author, Building Shared Prosperity in South Africa

Brian Levy currently teaches at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles. Between 2012 and 2023, he was Professor of the Practice at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and the founding Academic Director of the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town. He worked at the World Bank from 1989 to 2012, where his work focused on interactions between governance and development, including four years as head of the Secretariat responsible for implementing the Bank’s governance and anti-corruption strategy. He has published widely on the interactions among institutions, political economy and development policy, including Working with the Grain (Oxford University Press, 2014). He received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1983. Website and blog series: workingwiththegrain.com.