Dean Karlan

Chief Economist, US Agency for International Development (USAID)

BA in International Affairs, University of Virginia, US; MBA and MPP, University of Chicago, US; PhD in Economics, MIT, US. President, Innovations for Poverty Action, a non-profit organization that creates and evaluates solutions to social and development problems. Member of the Board, MIT Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Co-Author, More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics is Helping to Solve Global Poverty (2011). Expertise: microeconomic issues of financial decision-making. Recipient, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

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