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Tony Barclay
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
ahb86@columbia.edu
Biography:
Tony Barclay teaches a practical management skills course for SIPA students who are pursuing careers in international development.
For 30 years, Barclay served as a senior executive at DAI, an employee-owned international development consulting firm, which grew during his tenure from a boutique firm to a global company with annual revenues of $375 million and 2,500 employees. At DAI, he led numerous project design and evaluation teams, and supervised dozens of project implementation teams in more than 60 countries.
Barclay served as a Peace Corps volunteer in western Kenya, and returned there for his Ph.D. research in anthropology. He joined DAI’s development consulting staff in 1977, moved into a senior management role in 1979, was appointed President in 1990, and CEO in 1999.
Barclay was honored as Government Contractor Executive of the Year in 2008. He is a past president of the Washington Chapter of the Society for International Development. Currently, he chairs the boards of the National Peace Corps Association and Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., an employee-owned public health research firm. He also serves on several other company and nonprofit boards, including DAI’s. He taught a similar management course at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service from 2009 to 2011.
Barclay received a BA in History from Yale University in 1967, and an MPhil (1976) and PhD (1977) in Applied Anthropology from Teachers College at Columbia University.