Kate Weaver is associate professor of public affairs at the University of Texas’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. She is also co-director of Innovations for Peace and Development at the University of Texas. Her research focuses on the modernization of international development aid, including transparency and accountability reforms. Weaver is a Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law where she founded the Next Generation Scholars program and is a core researcher in the Center’s programs on climate change in Africa and complex emergencies in Asia. She is a former Brookings Institution research fellow in foreign policy studies and assistant professor of political science at the University of Kansas. Austin, Texas.
By Jordan Teague, senior international policy advisor
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The Bible on...
Dear Members of Congress,
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