John Floretta has been the Global Deputy Executive Director of J-PAL since 2020 and is also Co-Chair of the Evidence to Scale Initiative. He works with J-PAL's Executive Director to set J-PAL's strategic vision and collaborates closely with the leadership of the seven regional offices. He directs...

Seema Jayachandran is a Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and Co-Chair of J-PAL's Gender sector. Her research focuses on economic issues in developing countries, including environmental conservation, gender equality, labor markets, health, and education.

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.

Orazio Attanasio is the Cowles Professor of Economics at Yale University, a Research Fellow and one of the Directors of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy, and co-director of the Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies (EDePo@IFS) at the Institute for Fiscal...

Costas Meghir is the Douglas A. Warner III Professor of Economics at Yale University. His interests include labor economics, household behavior, retirement and pensions, income distribution, consumption, demand analysis, and development economics. Since 2004, he has been Co-Director of the Economic...

Natalia Rigol is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School. She studies the design, targeting, and delivery of financial products to the world’s poorest people, with a particular focus on financial inclusion for women. Currently, Natalia is researching the interaction between financial...