Guide to Specialists

Raymond O. Gilpin
Associate Vice President, Sustainable Economies, Centers of Innovation

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E-mail: rgilpin@usip.org

Phone: 202-429-4724

Raymond Gilpin directs USIP’s Sustainable Economies Center of Innovation. He leads the Institute’s work on analyzing complex economic relationships during all stages of conflict (including prevention, mediation, resolution and post-conflict), collating sound practices from practitioners and experts, and designing appropriate capacity-building and reach-back tools for conflict environments.

Before joining USIP, he served as academic chair for defense economics at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University (2003-2007), where he pioneered work on development economics and resource management in Africa’s security sector. He was also lead faculty for the Center’s work on energy, maritime security and China. Prior employment includes: director for international programs, Intellibridge Corporation (now part of Eurasia Group); senior economist at the African Development Bank Group; research director at the Central Bank of Sierra Leone; and economist at the World Bank.

Gilpin holds a doctorate from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. His thesis was on Macroeconomic Stabilization and Parallel Markets (1993). He also holds an Executive Certificate in International Finance and Capital Markets from Georgetown University.

Publications:

• Depoliticizing Zimbabwe’s Economy: Solutions for Two Million Percent
  USIPeace Briefing, August 2008
• Is Liberia’s Governance and Economic Management Assistance Program a "Necessary Intrusion?"
  USIPeace Briefing, May 2008
• China in Africa: Human Security Implications for Policy Makers, Africa Center mimeo (July 2007).
• "Enhancing Maritime Security in the Gulf of Guinea," Strategic Insights, Volume VI, Issue 1 (January 2007).
• Budgeting and Procurement in Africa’s Security Sector, Africa Center mimeo (October 2006).