David C. Sperling
David C. Sperling, Ph.D. is Research Professor and Special Advisor to the Vice Chancellor at Strathmore University in Kenya. He is the Director of the Strathmore Governance Center, established in 2007, in collaboration with the Hills Program on Governance of the Center of Strategic and International Studies, to promote the study of corporate and institutional governance in Africa. A native American and since 1971 a naturalized Kenyan citizen, Dr. Sperling received his B.A. from Yale University, his M.A. from Harvard, and his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Previous to his current academic appointments, Dr. Sperling lectured in the Department of History at the University of Nairobi from 1989 to 2001. He has held Visiting Fellowships at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University and at the Harry Truman Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Sperling’s ongoing research concerns Fundamentalism and African expressions of Islam and Christianity in East Africa, and issues related to the impact of globalization on poverty in Africa.
Updated September 24, 2007