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Assistant Professor of Economics
University of California, Berkeley (ARE)

Faculty Research Fellow
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Scientific Lead and Co-chair (2021-),  Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Research Initiative on Retail Finance Distribution (REFIND) 

Assistant Professor of Economics, Risk, and Insurance (2018-2022),  Georgia State University (J. Mack Robinson College of Business)

I'm a development economist studying how to design and build more effective markets for finance, government programs, and firms. I (mostly) study Ghana

Education: Ph.D. (2012-2018), M.Phil., M.A. Columbia University in the City of New York

Dissertation: Economics of Contracts and Risks

Advisor: Prof. Bernard Salanié