On Sunday, I leave Nairobi for Thailand, where I will spend a month visiting various beaches and diving various reefs. Of the many transitions I have documented on this blog, this one is most significant, as it is the most final. After Southeast Asia, I return to the United States for the foreseeable future, embarking on the next phase of my career as an MBA student at MIT. Right now, from the Flamingo Cafeteria in the Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, waiting for the second leg of my flight to Nairobi from Zanzibar, where I spent the last four days SCUBA diving and lounging on the beach with a new group of multicultural friends, I will begin the long process of trying to make sense of my three years working abroad in international development. By way of background for those who do not know the history of Develop Economies, I left my job as a strategy consultant in Boston three years ago to work with Kiva, a microfinance funder, in the Philippines. After the better part of a year, I moved to Ghana to work with Technoserve, a non-profit focused on market-driven economic development. Six...
International development, foreign policy, and music
