Cinnamon Dornsife

Cinnamon Dornsife is currently Senior Advisor, International Development Program and Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (JHU/SAIS), She has served in many high- profile roles, including  former U.S. Executive Director and Ambassador to the Asian Development Bank, advisor for the Japan Bank for International Cooperation as well as acting director and senior associate director of the SAIS International Development Program.

Dornsife has been a consultant on development assistance and policy issues for a wide variety of think tanks, nonprofits, and private sector firms. She spent more than a decade serving the Asia Foundation in several senior positions at headquarters, heading the Washington, D.C. office and in the field office in Indonesia. She has also worked with The World Bank, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S.-Asia Environmental Partnership, Pathfinder International, Forest Trends, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development. 

Dornsife currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the United States-Indonesia Society, the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area, the Global Development Policy Center of Boston University, JHU Social Innovation Lab, the Bank Information Center, and the Board of Directors of the American Bird Conservancy. She was a founding Board member for Devex and served for 10 years on the board of advisers for the Asian Development Bank Institute.