Daniel Hadi

Daniel Hadi is an Economics and Art History double major from Portland, Oregon, completing an interdisciplinary honors thesis with CDDRL for the 2026–2027 academic year. His research bridges microeconomic evaluation with questions of institutional design, governance, and the politics of place-based development. Daniel has conducted research at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and the Hoover Institution. He is a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholar who studied Arabic in Oman. After Stanford, he hopes to pursue development economics focused on cultural preservation and entrepreneurship in low- and middle-income countries.