Experts

Steven Sinding served as director of the USAID Office of Population from 1983 to 1986, following field assignments as a population officer in Pakistan and the Philippines. From 1986 to 1990, he was the director of USAID's Mission to Kenya. Following his 20-year career at USAID, Dr. Sinding served for a year as senior population adviser to the World Bank and then moved to the Rockefeller Foundation to be director of the Population Sciences Program. Between 1999 and 2002 he was a clinical professor of public health at Columbia University, moving in 2002 to become director general of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) in London. He retired from IPPF in 2006 and is now a senior fellow at the Guttmacher Institute and an international consultant. He lives in Vermont.