Steven W. Sinding Professor of Clinical Public Health at the School of Public Health,
(Director General of Planned Parenthood)

is directing a three-year study on the future of development cooperation and assistance,with a special emphasis on reproductive health and population program assistance.
Following a 20-year career with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), where he served as the Director of USAID's Mission to Kenya (1986-90) and as Director of USAID's global population programs (1983-1986), and a year as Senior Population Adviser to the World Bank, Dr. Sinding served as Director of the Population Sciences Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1991-1999).
He was a member of the United States delegation to the International Conference on Population and Development at Cairo and the delegation that prepared for the United Nations General Assembly Special Session in 1999 to review the Cairo Programme of Action. Dr. Sinding has written extensively on international population issues and is called upon frequently to lecture to both academic and general audiences on international population issues.
He serves on the boards of directors of several organizations active in the population and reproductive health fields. Dr. Sinding received his bachelor's degree from Oberlin College in 1965 and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1970. more...