Biography

Daniel F. Runde is a senior adviser at BGR Group, DevTech Systems Inc., and Deloitte, as well as a non-resident senior adviser in the Office of the President at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). During 14 years at CSIS, he served as senior vice president, director of the Project on Prosperity and Development, William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis, and acting director of the Americas Program (2020–2022). A champion of U.S. soft power in the developing world, Runde helped craft the BUILD Act, secure the Export-Import Bank’s 2018 reauthorization, design Prosper Africa, and advance U.S. leadership in multilateral institutions. He has advised the U.S. government, foreign ministries, international bodies, and Fortune 500 firms and has been decorated by the governments of Spain, Brazil, Ecuador, and Colombia. Previously, Runde held senior positions at USAID, the World Bank, Citibank Argentina, and Alex. Brown & Sons. He serves on the boards of the Ukraine-Moldova American Enterprise Fund and Spirit of America and previously chaired USAID’s Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACVFA) and EXIM’s Sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee. A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, he has written for Forbes, The Hill, Foreign Policy, Newsmax, the National Interest, and the Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, hosted CSIS’s Building the Future podcast, and authored The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power (2022). Fluent in Spanish, he graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College and holds an MA in public policy from Harvard University.