Steven W. Sinding, PhD

Former Director General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation in London from 2002 to his retirement in 2006. Dr. Sinding began his career in 1971 at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Following assignments in Washington, Pakistan and the Philippines, he served from 1983 to 1986 as Director of the USAID Office of Population. From 1986 to 1990 he was the Director of USAID’s Mission to Kenya. Following this 20-year career at USAID, Dr. Sinding served for a year as senior population advisor to the World Bank and then moved to the Rockefeller Foundation where, from 1991 to 1999, he was Director of the Population Sciences program. From 1999 to 2002, he was Clinical Professor of Public Health at Columbia University. He is now a senior fellow at the Guttmacher Institute, serves on a number of boards, and works as an international consultant. Dr. Sinding received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1970.