Tony Barclay teaches a workshop in the MSFS development concentration that focuses on practical management skills for development professionals. For 30 years, Barclay served as a senior executive at DAI, an employee-owned international development consulting firm with 2,500 employees working in more than 50 countries. He joined DAI’s development consulting staff in 1977, moved into a senior management role in 1979, and served as CEO from 1999 until his retirement in January 2009.

With support from DAI, Barclay created an interactive knowledge-sharing tool for development practitioners that is now supported by the Earth Institute at Columbia University, housed on the Quora platform, and managed by a team of students in SIPA's Masters in Development Pracgti9ce program.

Barclay was honored as the Greater Washington DC Government Contractor Executive of the Year in 2008. He chairs the boards of the National Peace Corps Association and Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., an employee-owned public health research firm, and serves on several other company and nonprofit boards, including DAI’s. He received a B.A. in History from Yale University in 1967, and an M.Phil. (1976) and Ph.D. (1977) in Applied Anthropology from Teachers College at Columbia University.