Sarah Burd-Sharps is co-director of the American Human Development Project at Measure of America, which she founded in 2007 after a two-decade career with the United Nations. As co-director of Measure of America, a project of the Social Science Research Council funded primarily by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, she has co-authored two volumes of "The Measure of America" series as well as state-level human development reports for California, Louisiana and Mississippi. Previously she was deputy director of the United Nations Development Program's Human Development Report Office, where she worked on international reports involving globalization, environmental issues and human rights, and on national human development reports on every continent. In the year leading up to the 1995 Beijing Women's Conference, Burd-Sharps headed the United Nations Development Fund for Women's China office and supported the nascent NGO movement there. She holds a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University.

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