Brad Parks is a Project Director and Research Associate at the College of William and Mary's Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations. He is also a Principal Investigator at AidData and a Visiting Research Associate at the Center for Global Development. Brad holds an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and a BA in International Relations from the College of William and Mary. From 2005-2010, Brad was part of the initial team that set up the U.S. government's newest foreign aid agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). As Associate Director of Development Policy, he was responsible for administering MCC's annual country selection process, advising developing country officials on Millennium Challenge Account eligibility issues, and providing strategic guidance to the senior management and Board of Directors on a wide range of policy issues.

As Acting Director of Threshold Programs, he oversaw the implementation of a $35 million anti-corruption and judicial reform project in Indonesia and a $21 million customs and tax reform project in the Philippines. Brad is currently a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and has written and contributed to several books and articles on aid allocation, aid effectiveness, and development theory and practice. Most recently, he co-authored Greening Aid? Understanding Environmental Assistance to Developing Countries (Oxford University Press, 2008) with Michael Tierney, J. Timmons Roberts, and Robert Hicks. He is also the co-author of A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy (MIT Press, 2007), which is required reading at more than 38 universities in the U.S. and abroad.