Tony Barclay

Tony Barclay was the Director of Development Management and Practice in Georgetown University's Global Human Development Program, in the School of Foreign Service. For 30 years, Barclay served as a senior executive at DAI, an employee-owned international development consulting firm, which grew during his tenure from a boutique firm to a global company with annual revenues of $375 million and 2,500 employees. Barclay served as a Peace Corps volunteer in western Kenya, and returned there for his Ph.D. research in anthropology. He joined DAI’s development consulting staff in 1977, moved into a senior management role in 1979, was appointed President in 1990, and CEO in 1999. Barclay was honored as Government Contractor Executive of the Year in 2008. He is a past president of the Washington Chapter of the Society for International Development (now SID-US). Currently, he serves as chair of the board of Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., an employee-owned public health research firm and serves on several other company and nonprofit boards, including DAI’s. Barclay received a B.A. in History from Yale University in 1967, and an M.Phil. (1976) and Ph.D. (1977) in Applied Anthropology from Teachers College at Columbia University.