Daniel Honig

Expertise

Regions

• Africa
• Liberia
• South Sudan
• Southeast Asia
• Thailand
• Timor-Leste

Topics

• Bureaucracy
• Developing Nations
• Economic Development
• Foreign Aid and Global Poverty
• Governance
• International Political Economy
• Political Economy & Development
• World Bank and International Monetary Fund

Languages

• English
• Hebrew
• Liberian English
• Tetun
• Thai

Background and Education

Dan Honig is Assistant Professor of International Development and an affiliate of the International Political Economy program. Prof. Honig''s research focuses on the relationship between organizational structure, management practice, and performance in developing country governments and organizations that provide foreign aid.  His recent book (Navigation by Judgment: Why and When Top-Down Control of Foreign Aid Doesn’t Work) examines the optimal level of autonomy in foreign aid intervention delivery and the role political authorizing environments and measurement regimes play in circumscribing that autonomy. He has had his work published in journals including International Organization, World Development, and Third World Quarterly.
 
Prof. Honig has held a variety of positions outside of the academy.  He was special assistant, then advisor, to successive Ministers of Finance (Liberia); ran a local nonprofit focused on helping post-conflict youth realize the power of their own ideas to better their lives and communities through agricultural entrepreneurship (East Timor); and has worked for a number of local and international NGOs (e.g. Ashoka in Thailand; Center for Jewish-Arab Economic Development in Israel). A proud Detroiter, Prof. Honig holds an Honors BA from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard''s Kennedy School.

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