Daniel Karanja

Dr. Daniel Karanja is a Senior Fellow and Chief of Staff with the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa, an independent U.S.-Africa effort focused on increasing the level and effectiveness of U.S. development assistance and public-private investments in Africa’s agriculture and rural development. Dr. Karanja services as the Partnership’s Co-Chair of the Working Group on Capacity Building in Science and Technology. In this capacity, he leads the Partnership’s collaborative work with Washington-based African Ambassadors’ Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD), which includes hosting a series of panel discussions and field visits on key topics of U.S.-Africa interest. In recent years, Dr. Karanja has also guided the Partnership’s work on strengthening U.S.-Africa agricultural trade and capacity building, including work related to the U.S. Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and Doha’s Aid for Trade.

 

Prior to joining the Partnership in October 2003, Dr. Karanja worked as a policy analyst with Bread for the World in Washington, D.C., where his primary focus was on international development and educating U.S. and African NGOs and faith-based organizations on Africa’s agricultural development and the potential of using agricultural biotechnology in Africa. Dr. Karanja has a Masters and Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Michigan State University.