Global Development Seminar with Patricia Bromley and Marshall Burke

About the Speakers:

Patricia Bromley, Faculty Affiliate at the King Center on Global Development

Patricia Bromley is an Associate Professor in Stanford’s Graduate School of Education (GSE), the Doerr School of Sustainability, and (by courtesy) Sociology. She is also Co-Director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS) and Director of the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR) at Stanford. Professor Bromley's research spans a range of fields including organization and management theory, comparative education, and the sociology of education, covering the substantive topics of sustainable development, minority and human rights, nonprofits and civil society, and globalization. She teaches courses related to the sociology of education, nonprofit organizations, and global education policy.

Marshall Burke, Faculty Affiliate at the King Center on Global Development

Marshall Burke is an associate professor in the department of earth system science, a fellow at the Stanford Center on Food Security and the Environment, and a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also a co-founder of Atlas AI, a startup using satellites and machine learning to measure livelihoods.

Professor Burke’s research focuses on the social and economic impacts of environmental change, and on measuring economic livelihoods across the developing world. His work regularly appears in both economics and scientific journals, including recent publications in Nature, Science, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and The Lancet. He holds a PhD in agricultural and resource economics from UC Berkeley and a BA in international relations from Stanford.