Clifford F. Zinnes is a senior fellow at the IRIS Center in the Economics Department and a faculty affliliate at the Maryland School of Public Policy, both at the University of Maryland. Focusing on aid effectiveness, as a practitioner of the ""new"" institutional economics, Zinnes also writes on the shadow economy, environmental protection, and failing and fragile states. While at Harvard University for more than a decade, he taught and conducted field work in a dozen countries, including Romania, where he coauthored several laws related to privatization, water management, and environmental protection.