Abu Shonchoy is an Associate Professor of Economics at Florida International University. His research interests concentrate around financial inclusion, skills training, infrastructure, and education, with several ongoing evaluations in South Asia and West Africa. In addition to his academic work...

Anne Kersting is a Policy Advisor at J-PAL Global, where she works on the finance and social protection sectors. As a member of the Policy group, her work includes synthesizing evidence, contributing to policy publications, and collaborating with research and implementation partners on evidence...

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...