Sarah Burd-Sharps

Sarah Burd-Sharps is co-director of the American Human Development Project and co-author of The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009 (Columbia University Press/SSRC, 2009)  and A Portrait of Mississippi. She received her master’s in international affairs from Columbia University.  Sarah worked at the United Nations in China and the U.S. for almost two decades.  Until September of 2006, Burd-Sharps was deputy director of the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). In addition to being a contributor to  global HDRs, she began to develop UNDP’s work on national and regional HDRs in 2001. In 2000, Burd-Sharps was advisor /editor for Transparency International, the premier anti-corruption non-governmental organization, as they developed their first Global Corruption Report.