Rizka Diandra Firdaus is a Senior Policy and Communications Associate at J-PAL Southeast Asia. As part of the communications team, Rizka leads the production of communication materials and handles event management.

Horacio Larreguy is an Associate Professor of Economics and Political Science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City. His research interests are primarily in political economy and economic development, using both theory and empirics, with a focus on political...

Jeanne Lafortune is a Full Professor in the Department of Economics at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. Her primary fields of interest are labor and development economics, with a particular interest in family economics. Her research has, among various topics, looked at how marriage markets...

Kelsey Jack is the Sheth Sustainable Business Chancellor's Chair and an Associate Professor of Environmental and Development Economics at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER. Prior to...

Lori Beaman is the Breen Family Professor in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University. Lori's research interests lie in development and labor economics with a focus on the role of social networks in the labor market and in agriculture, and women's economic and social mobility.

Michael Kremer is the Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He is the Co-Recipient of the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with J-PAL Co-Founders Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo. He was also named a Young Global Leader by the World...

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak is a Jerome Kasoff ’54 Professor of Management and Economics at Yale University with concurrent appointments in the School of Management and in the Department of Economics. He also leads the Bangladesh Research Program for the International Growth Centre (IGC) at LSE and Oxford...

Nick Ryan is an Associate Professor of Economics at Yale University and Co-Chair of the Evidence to Scale Initiative.He studies energy markets and environmental regulation in developing countries. Energy use enables high standards of living, but rapid, energy-intensive growth has caused many...

Paul Glewwe is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota. His interests are economics of education, poverty and inequality in developing countries, and applied econometrics.

Rachel M. Heath is an Alberta C. Corkery Professor of Economics at the University of Washington.

Reshmaan N. Hussam is the Ogunlesi Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and part of the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit.

Roland Rathelot is a Researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Economie Statistique (CREST). His areas of interest include labor economics, public economics and economics of immigration, with a particular focus on the spatial dimension. He is currently conducting randomized evaluations of counseling...