Edward Miguel

J-PAL Affiliated Professor

Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics

University of California, Berkeley

Edward Miguel is the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. His work focuses on the provision and the impact of public goods to the poor in sub-Saharan Africa, notably in Kenya and Tanzania. He has conducted a randomized evaluation of a deworming program in Kenya and of a nutrition supplement program aimed at pre-primary school children in India.

Edward previously served as a member of J-PAL's Board of Directors, and on the review boards of J-PAL's Crime and Violence Initiative and Jobs and Opportunity Initiative. He has also served as a lecturer at J-PAL training events.