Aid Experts, Etc.

Bill Gates

Sharing things I'm learning through my foundation work and other interests...
6,798,480 followers |

Rania Al Abdullah

A mum and a wife with a really cool day job...
2,130,073 followers |

World Economic Forum

Official Twitter account of the World Economic Forum, best known for the Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters (@pilcherg @chris_parker @WEF_Anna tweeting)
1,669,225 followers |

Nicholas Kristof

New York Times columnist, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, co-author @Half the Sky, http://www.facebook.com/kristof
1,261,126 followers |

Jacqueline Novogratz

CEO, Acumen Fund (@acumenfund) and author, The Blue Sweater (www.thebluesweater.com)
418,195 followers |

Ashoka Changemakers

Follow us for the latest in innovation, social entrepreneurship and how you can make a difference. Why? Everyone Can Be a Changemaker.
394,576 followers |

Kjerstin Erickson

I run FORGE, an international nonprofit that facilitates human-driven peacebuilding and reconstruction in war-torn African communities.
324,250 followers |

Hans Rosling

Professor Global Health, Karolinska Institutet. Edutainer & co-founder of Gapminder Foundation
80,714 followers |

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Economist, Professor, Director of the @EarthInstitute, Columbia University and Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General. Author of The Price of Civilization.
69,420 followers |

Dambisa Moyo

Economist & author of Winner Take All & NYTimes bestsellers Dead Aid & How The West Was Lost. Named by @TIME as one of 100 most influential people in the world.
63,036 followers |

matthew bishop

NY Bureau Chief, The Economist; co-author Philanthrocapitalism & www.philanthrocapitalism.net/
31,191 followers |

William Easterly

NYU Econ Prof; author White Man's Burden, critic of nonsense in fighting global poverty, advocate of individual rights for all; keep your irony alert on.
29,239 followers |

CGD

The Center for Global Development is a policy research organization dedicated to reducing global poverty. Experts on Twitter: http://bit.ly/JwwooG
16,991 followers |

Zainab Salbi

Women's rights activist, humanitarian, author, public speaker, & media commentator.
13,654 followers |

Chris Blattman

I write, read, teach and blog on development, economics, politics, Africa, and foreign policy (plus many other frivolous things). I'm faculty at Yale.
13,254 followers |

Aid Watch

Aid Watch is a project of the Development Research Institute at New York University. Tweets from Laura Freschi, Lauren Bishop and Tanja Goodwin.
10,880 followers |

Nobel Women

Women Nobel Laureates united to increase the power and visibility of women’s groups working globally for peace, justice and equality.
10,429 followers |

Paul Polak and team

Author Out of Poverty, Founder of IDE (www.ideorg.org) & D-REV (www.d-rev.org). Tweets by Paul Polak (PP), Isaac (IK), Kathryn (KP), Kali (KF)
8,898 followers |

undispatch

UNDispatch.com, a blog on global issues. Tweets written by Mark Leon Goldberg aka @marklgoldberg
8,583 followers |

Millennium Promise

Together, Our Generation Can End Extreme Poverty
7,624 followers |

Alanna Shaikh

International development optimist & skeptic, global health & int'l dev blogger at Blood & Milk, UN Dispatch. TED fellow. All tweets my opinion not employer's.
7,475 followers |

Owen Barder

Senior Fellow & Europe Director at the Center for Global Development. Development economist, geek, runner. More at: http://www.owen.org/about Views mine.
6,746 followers |

Nancy M. Birdsall

Founding president Center for Global Development @cgdev. Tweeting mostly on dev issues. Views are my own not necessarily (but probably) ok at @cgdev
6,656 followers |

PublishWhatYouFund

The global campaign for aid transparency
5,123 followers |

Duncan Green

From Poverty to Power blog updates by Oxfam's Senior Strategic Advise, Duncan Green. Recently started tweeting properly in vain effort to overcome technophobia.
4,974 followers |

David Roodman

Wrote Due Diligence: An Impertinent Inquiry into Microfinance in public; senior fellow @CGDev; crunching numbers & penning prose; all views mine alone
4,634 followers |

Wronging Rights

Cry havoc! and let sleep the cats of war.
2,838 followers |

John McArthur

international development optimist and economist. http://johnmcarthur.com
2,695 followers |

Vijaya Ramachandran

Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development, working on fragile states, private sector development,and food security. Views are my own.
2,569 followers |

James Topham

Comms at War Child in N America - I sometimes have one or two things to say.
2,003 followers |

Saundra

Aid critic, donor educator, SmartAid advocate. Independent thinker, independent voter, pretty tired of U.S. politics.
1,927 followers |

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