Nancy Birdsall

For my tweets on development issues hope you'll follow me not here but @nancymbirdsall (m in middle). Go to

[Nancy Birdsall @nancybirdsall]

"Time to put grandpa to bed." Yup

[thirty313 @thirty313]

@atrupar Talking about all of this shit in a room filled with kids is next level insanity. Time to put grandpa to bed.

[Nancy Birdsall @nancybirdsall]

On why I remain bullish on Nigeria, by @kopalo https://t.co/zbt6k3bWZl

[Nancy Birdsall @nancybirdsall]

oops. This is an old Twitter account that I no longer use.

If you are following me on this account please switch to @nancymbirdsall. That is, with an m in the middle.

I will delete this account one week from today!! See you @nancymbirdsall I hope.

[Nancy Birdsall @nancybirdsall]

"I am not saying that we instantly go from Bretton Woods to Bridgetown, but this is now a problem that cannot be ignored anymore."
Sherry Rahman, Pakistan Minister for Climate Change,in Davos

As in Ministry for the Future book, world needs a female Global Minister for Future!

[Nancy Birdsall @nancybirdsall]

"The unfinished business of #metoo...."

@NickKristof pleads for the Int'l Violence Against WOmen Act..

& Iranian & Ukrainian girls & women & it goes on & on .....

https://t.co/jKnohyCTof

[Nancy Birdsall @nancybirdsall]

"Are we asking government to make criminal what we believe to be sinful because we ourselves can’t stop committing the sin?"

Catbolic Mario Cuomo, then gov of NY, 37 yrs ago. https://t.co/0nuJttiJw5. Ths @GreenhouseLinda

[Erik Solheim @ErikSolheim]

Gender revolution!
From this week three most powerful ministers in Norway are women: Prime minister. Finance minister. Foreign minister.

[Nancy Birdsall @nancybirdsall]

@pamrags Just seeing your twitter handle at my not-used handle I should dump (how?!). Please follow me @nancymbirdsall with an M in middle!

[Nancy Birdsall @nancybirdsall]

Feel better re #climate, thanks to China. MT @LMacDonaldDC: in 2016 1/4 of world’s carbon emissions to be priced http://t.co/MjSjWQNBs5

[Nancy Birdsall @nancybirdsall]

Felicitaciones @ricardo_hausman!! (in back row con barba). Construyo una institution @anajuljatar: @the_IDB

[Moisés Naím @MoisesNaim]

The Real Threat to Venezuela’s Democracy by Daniel Wilkinson | The New York Review of Books http://t.co/LmXFzuejmW via @nybooks

[Nancy M. Birdsall @nancymbirdsall]

Best $9.99 you'll spend this year. Not just for classical music lovers! First track spoken intro a treat in itself. https://t.co/G8WLyhR7s9

[Ricardo Hausmann @ricardo_hausman]

Must read! Venezuelan virtuoso @monterogabriela slams Jose Antonio Abreu and Gustavo Dudamel 4 condoning govt. http://t.co/MZbkKupzm0”

[Nancy M. Birdsall @nancymbirdsall]

A billion kids getting the message in school they are stupi:. http://t.co/Jo1rWxlBDm. What to do? http://t.co/Q5mcKPG0Nd

[Michele de Nevers @MicheledeNevers]

@nancybirdsall notes that if rich countries want poor countries to avoid coal they should pay the difference in cost http://t.co/XNCbDITmxK

[Nancy Birdsall @nancybirdsall]

I was right. Marry a man with sisters! http://t.co/B6Oi1A39Uk #fb

[Nancy Birdsall @nancybirdsall]

Why in the US only rich mothers can "afford" to work: http://t.co/qOxADV8pcK