Peter M. Lewis

Peter M. Lewis is a senior associate with the CSIS Africa Program. He is also associate professor and director of African studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). His research and teaching focus on economic reform and political transition in developing countries, with particular emphasis on governance and development in sub-Saharan Africa. He has written extensively on questions of economic adjustment, democratization, and civil society in Africa; democratic reform and political economy in Nigeria; public attitudes toward reform and democracy in West Africa; and the comparative politics of economic change in Africa and Southeast Asia. His most recent book, Growing Apart: Oil, Politics, and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria (Michigan, 2007), is concerned with the institutional basis of economic development. Dr. Lewis has coauthored or edited four other books, and his articles have appeared in World Politics, World Development, the Journal of Democracy, the Journal of Modern African Studies, and African Affairs.

Dr. Lewis has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a national fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and a Fulbright fellow in Nigeria. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Princeton University's Center for International Studies, and American University. He is a member of the Research Council of the International Forum for Democratic Studies, and he has consulted for the Ford Foundation, the Carter Center, the Council on Foreign Relations, Freedom House, USAID, and the World Bank.