On a regular basis, MFAN will profile reporters who cover issues related to foreign assistance reform and development like global health, trade, and the environment. Today, we start with Josh Rogin who authors ForeignPolicy.com’s The Cable blog and has a regular column on The Washington Post’s The Fed Page. Previously, Rogin covered defense and foreign policy as a staff writer for Congressional Quarterly, writing extensively on Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, U.S.-Asia relations, defense budgeting and appropriations, and the defense lobbying and contracting industries.
Follow Rogin on Twitter: @joshrogin
See below for a list of Rogin’s development-related pieces:
- Senate poobahs to Obama: What’s up with USAID? (FP Blog-Josh Rogin, September 23, 2009)
- USAID awaits its fate (FP Blog-Josh Rogin, October 14, 2009)
- USDA’s Rajiv Shah to be named USAID head (FP-Josh Rogin, November 10, 2009)
- Over State’s objections, Senate to move ahead on foreign-aid bill (FP Blog-Josh Rogin, November 16, 2009)
- New aid chief lays out plans to fix USAID (FP Blog-Josh Rogin, December 1, 2009)
- Exclusive: New details on Obama’s $7.5 billion aid package to Pakistan (FP Blog-Josh Rogin, December 16, 2009)
- As USAID awaits its fate, Clinton lays out new U.S. development agenda (FP Blog-Josh Rogin, January 6, 2010)
- Shah pledges to elevate development as he takes the helm of USAID (FP Blog-Josh Rogin, January 7, 2010)
- Development community sees Clinton consolidating power over USAID (FP Blog-Josh Rogin, January 15, 2010)
- Congress weighs in on foreign-aid reform (FP Blog-Josh Rogin, January 29, 2010)
- Aid advocates happy, not thrilled with Obama’s new budget (FP Blog-Josh Rogin, February 2, 2010)
- Gates rips “jerry-rigged” U.S. foreign policy (FP Blog-Josh Rogin, February 25, 2010)
- Clinton and Gates testify on Haiti (no, the other ones) (FP Blog-Josh Rogin, March 11, 2010)
- 50 military “good ole boys” support shifting money to the State Department (FP Blog-Josh Rogin, March 23, 2010)
- Development community gears up for State Department review (FP Blog-Josh Rogin, April 8, 2010)
Tags: development, Food Security Initiative, Foreign Assistance Act, foreign assistance reform, Haiti, house committee on foreign affairs, howard berman, Kerry, lugar, poverty, President Obama, Presidential Study Directive on Global Development Policy, QDDR, Raj Shah, senate foreign relations committee, State Department, USAID
[...] Yesterday, ForeignPolicy.com’s Josh Rogin published a draft version of the National Security Council’s Presidential Study Directive on Global Development Policy (PSD-7), which is a landmark review of the strategy and structure behind U.S. development and foreign assistance efforts. Rogin’s article notes that the ambitious recommendations in the document set off one or possibly multiple rounds of dynamic debate in government about who should have authority over U.S. development efforts. President Obama is said to be awaiting the final report on PSD-7 from the NSC. See our review of Rogin’s other reporting on development here. [...]