Ethiopian Highlands
Biography
I am an economist and Young Professional at the World Bank, working in the Poverty and Equity Global practice. Currently I principally work on projects in Afghanistan, including informing the design of social safety nets to mitigate food insecurity, and support to the national statistics agency. I also have worked on projects involving anonymized, aggregated mobile phone data to analyze Covid-19 driven mobility in the Gambia.
Before the World Bank, I was Lead Economist at Cooper/Smith, a startup encouraging the use of data for decision-making in the International development space.
I have a PhD in applied economics from Cornell University. I wrote my dissertation on resilience measurement in the context of poverty and climate change. I work on applying a resilience paradigm to impact evaluation by combining on the ground and remote-sensing data. I have ongoing projects in Malawi, Madagascar and Cameroon.
Prior to Cornell I was an ODI Fellow at the Liberian Ministry of Finance. I helped set up the development coordination unit, worked closely with donors on aligning projects with national priorities, and provided technical support to Liberia’s statistical agency.
I have a MSC in Economics for Development from Oxford and a joint BS/MA from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.