Stephen P. Groff

Stephen P. Groff is an economist and the inaugural Governor of the National Development Fund (NDF) of Saudi Arabia. Groff was previously ranking Vice-President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Groff also served as Deputy Director for Development Cooperation at the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and as Deputy Vice-President for Operations at the Washington-based Millennium Challenge Corporation. In addition to publishing research in peer-reviewed academic journals, Groff writes regularly on climate change and development-related issues, including for Project Syndicate, The Wall Street Journal, The Hill, The Guardian and The Huffington Post. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Groff is a graduate of Yale University and the Kennedy School at Harvard University and has a PhD from Erasmus University’s School of Social and Behavioural Science in the Netherlands.