We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Dr. Dan Honig as Visiting Senior Fellow at Artha Global. 

Dan is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at University College London. His research focuses on the relationship between management practice and organisational structure in delivering welfare-improving services, with a particular focus on the links between citizen voice, bureaucratic motivation, agency autonomy, and performance.

Dan is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Mission Driven Bureaucrats, focused on how best to attract, retain, and cultivate mission-oriented public servants worldwide.

He is a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development; a fellow of Harvard’s Building State Capability Program, Johns Hopkins SAIS’ Foreign Policy Institute, and Lahore University of Management Sciences.

From 2015-2021, Dan was an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and has also previously held visiting appointments at Thammasat University’s Department of Economics, Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science, and the West Africa Research Center in Dakar. He has worked as an advisor to successive Ministers of Finance in Liberia.

Dan features on the list of the 100 most influential academics in government (2021), and 50 most influential researchers shaping 21st century politicians (2022).

He holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.