Katherine Casey

PROFESSOR, POLITICAL ECONOMY

Stanford Profile

Katherine Casey is RoAnn Costin Professor of Political Economy at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is the faculty director of the King Center on Global Development and a senior fellow at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Casey's research explores the interactions between economic and political forces in developing countries, with particular interest in the role of information in enhancing political accountability and the influence of foreign aid on economic development. She leads the SIL-funded Decentralization with Guardrails research project.