Dan Runde

Daniel F. Runde is a Senior Advisor at BGR Group. At BGR, Mr. Runde works closely across the firm to advise clients on a variety of challenges in Washington and beyond including the State Department, the Development Finance Corporation, the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank, the World Bank and the regional Multilateral Development Banks. Mr. Runde brings a global network to his role and has a particular depth of relationships in Latin America, Africa, Central Asia and Ukraine.

Prior to joining BGR Group, Mr. Runde was a senior vice president, director of the Project on Prosperity and Development (PPD), and held the William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a leading global think tank. He remains a Senior Advisor at CSIS. Mr. Runde also served as the acting director for the CSIS Americas Program from 2020-2022. His work has been oriented around U.S. leadership in building a more democratic and prosperous world. Among his many other contributions, Mr. Runde was as an architect of the BUILD Act, contributed to the reauthorization of the U.S. EXIM Bank in 2018, and was an architect of Prosper Africa, a U.S. government initiative to deepen the United States’ commercial and development engagement in Africa. He has been a leading voice on the role and future of the World Bank Group and U.S. leadership in the multilateral system. 

Mr. Runde has also held leadership roles at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World Bank Group. Earlier in his career, Mr. Runde worked in commercial banking at Citibank in Argentina and in investment banking at Alex. Brown & Sons. 

Mr. Runde holds the Officer’s Cross in the Order of Isabel la Católica, a Spanish civil order. He is a Commander in the Order of Rio Branco, a Brazilian civil order and has been officially recognized by the governments of Colombia and Ecuador for deepening ties with those countries. 

Currently, he serves on the board of the Ukraine Moldova America Enterprise Fund (UMAEF) and Spirit of America. Mr. Runde is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bretton Woods Committee. He was a columnist for The Hill and Forbes.com and hosted a CSIS podcast series from 2015 to 2024, Building the Future: Freedom, Prosperity, & Foreign Policy with Dan Runde producing more than 150 episodes. Mr. Runde is also the author of the book The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power (Bombardier Books, 2022). He previously chaired two U.S. government advisory committees: the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid at USAID and the Sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee at the U.S. EXIM Bank. He also served on the boards of International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) and the Ashesi University Foundation.  Fluent in Spanish, he graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College and holds a master’s in public policy from Harvard University.

• U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security Issues
• International Development
• Executive Branch, Foreign Policy, and National Security Processes

• Harvard University

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