- Phone:
- (812) 856-4925
- Email:
- prestond@indiana.edu
- Room Number:
- 217
- Areas of Interest:
- Financing for development ,
- Sustainable development ,
- Institutional economics ,
- Country competitiveness
Daniel Preston
Clinical Associate Professor
Director, Master of International Affairs
Education
- M.A.L.D., The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
- B.B.A., Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Courses
- International Development Finance
- National and International Policy
- Security and Development in the Balkans
- Public Policy in Cuba - A Comparative Study
- Policy-making around the World: Comparative and International Approaches
- Managing Hazards in Europe and the United States
- Financing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals
- Sustainable Development in Practice
Biography
Dan Preston is a clinical associate professor, director of the Master of International Affairs degree program, and an affiliate faculty member at the Russian and East European Institute and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Indiana University. Professor Preston's academic and professional work focuses on mobilizing finance for international development.
He teaches courses covering topics ranging from public affairs and international comparative policy to finance and economic development. The study abroad courses he created enable students to study security and development in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, comparative policy and governance in Cuba, and sustainable development in Portugal. He collaborates with and advises various leading international organizations and think tanks such as the OECD, World Economic Forum, Center for Global Development, United Nations, and African Center for Economic Transformation. He serves the university in many capacities involving degree program management, international internships, curriculum, strategic planning, personnel review, overseas education, course internationalization, and peer assessment of teaching. Outside the university, he serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Creative Action Institute.
Professor Preston's professional interests include financing for development, institutional investment, banking, sustainable development, and country competitiveness. His professional and personal experiences have spanned 70 countries and territories. Prior to O'Neill, he held investment banking positions with Citigroup in the U.S. and France specializing in economic advisory, debt management, and capital raising for sovereign governments in Europe, Africa, and Asia and securitization programs for corporations primarily in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Japan. He also worked as a management consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Information Resources on a range of strategic issues for Fortune 500 companies, technology start-ups, and the U.S. government.
Highlights
- 2016 O'Neill Teaching Award: The Orville W. Powell Inspiration Award
- 2014 O'Neill Teaching Award, Outstanding Undergraduate Instruction, Indiana University
- 2013 O'Neill Teaching Award, Outstanding Undergraduate Instruction, Indiana University
- 2013 O'Neill Recognition Award, Best Overseas Education Program, Indiana University
- Director of O'Neill in Portugal
- Director of O'Neill in Cuba
- Vice President, Public Sector Group, Citigroup
- Associate, Global Securitized Markets, Citigroup
- Manager, Strategic Consulting Group, Information Resources Inc.
- Strategy Consultant, Management Consulting Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers
In the News
- "SDG-Aligned Investment in Africa with Professor Daniel Preston" - Council of Institutional Investors Podcast, November 18, 2021
- "Experts Propose Stretch Fund to Finance SDGs" - SDG Update, December 10, 2019
- "Opinion: The potential for an SDG mobilization conduit" - Devex, March 22, 2019
- "CIBER Focus" - Kelley Institute for International Business, August 27, 2015
- "IU students reflect on trip to Cuba" - WISHTV, April 13, 2015
Selected Works
- "Quality Infrastructure in 21st Century Africa," (with K. Miyamoto), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), (2020)
- "The Stretch Fund: Bridging the Gap in the Development Finance Architecture," (with N. Lee), Center for Global Development brief (December 4, 2019)
- "Strengthening the Local Dimension of Blended Finance: A review of the local approaches and instruments employed by Development Finance Organizations," (with S. Bilal), Knowledge Brief for G20 CwA Peer Learning Event, (September 12, 2019)
- "Chapter 2: The imperative of blended finance," "Chapter 5: Blended finance instruments and mechanisms" (with W. Bartz-Zuccala), and "Chapter 7: Insights from project-level case studies on blended finance" (with W. Bartz-Zuccala), in Making Blended Finance Work for the Sustainable Development Goals, OECD (January 29, 2018)
- Blended Finance, (with P. Moss), World Economic Forum (November 9, 2017)
- “Payouts for Perils: Using Insurance to Radically Improve Emergency Aid,” (member of the Payouts for Perils Working Group with T. Talbot), The Center for Global Development, (April 19, 2017)