Charles Kenny

Charles Kenny

Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development, Socrates Program

Charles Kenny is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. He has published articles, chapters and books on issues including the link between economic growth and broader development, the causes of improvements in global health, the history of happiness and the link between economic growth and happiness. He is the author of the book Getting Better: Why Global Development is Succeeding, and How We Can Improve the World Even More, and co-author, with his father, of the book Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Utility: Happiness in Philosophical and Economic Thought. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Happiness Studies, a contributing editor at Foreign Policy magazine and a regular columnist for Businessweek.