Arthur Baker

arthurbaker@uchicago.edu | @aw_baker 

EDUCATION

                                                                                                                                                                                                                   


Birkbeck – Graduate Certificate in Economics – Distinction       2017                                     

MIT MicroMasters – Data Analysis for Social Scientists     2017

University of Manchester – BaEcon Politics – First Class Honours   2014                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

EXPERIENCE

                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Development Innovation Lab, University of Chicago

Director and Chief of Staff to Nobel laureate Prof Michael Kremer Dec 2022 - present

Associate Director Dec 2020 - Dec 2022            

Harvard University                                             

Research Manager for Prof. Michael Kremer                                     Dec 2019 - Dec 2020

Centre for Global Development                                                        

Research Associate Jun 2019 - Dec 2019

Research Assistant Jul 2018 - May 2019

Innovations for Poverty Action Sierra Leone                            

Research Coordinator         Jun 2017 - Jul 2018            

Senior Research Associate       Oct 2016 - Jun 2017

Research Assistant         Feb 2016 - Mar 2017

Evidence Action

Consultant Research Assistant Apr 2016 - Nov 2016

Raleigh International

Fundraising, Research, and Administration Intern                          Jun 2014 - Dec 2014

IntoUniversity

Intern                                                                                                     Jul - Sep 2013


AWARDS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                   


Emergent Ventures Prize, for work on pandemic vaccine financing ($25,000) 2021 

The Sam Moore Prize, for the highest performing undergraduate student on degree programme 2014

The Maurice Wright Prize, for the highest performing undergraduate politics student 2014

Student Union Campaigner of the Year, University of Manchester Students Union 2013


ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Market Design to Accelerate COVID-19 Vaccine Supply,” with Amrita Ahuja, Susan Athey, Arthur Baker, Eric Budish, Tasneem Chipty, Rachel Glennerster, Scott Kominers, Michael Kremer, Greg Larson, Jean Lee, Canice Prendergast, Christopher Snyder, Alex Tabarrok, Brandon Tan, and Witold Więcek. Science, 371(6534), 1107-1109, March 12, 2021.

Preparing for a Pandemic: Accelerating Vaccine Availability,” with Amrita Ahuja, Susan Athey, Arthur Baker, Eric Budish, Rachel Glennerster, Scott Kominers, Michael Kremer, Jean Lee, Canice Prendergast, Christopher Snyder, Alex Tabarrok, Brandon Tan, and Witold Więcek. American Economic Associations, Papers and Proceedings, 111: 331-35, May 2021.

Online Appendix, “Advance Market Commitments: Insights from Theory and Experience”, with Michael Kremer, Jonathan Levin, Christopher Snyder, and Junyi Que, American Economic Associations, Papers and Proceedings,  May 2020


SELECTED POLICY PUBLICATIONS AND OP-EDS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Accelerating Vaccination” with Esha Chaudhuri and Michael Kremer, IMF Finance & Development, 2021

Purchasing COVID-19 Vaccines at Risk: Costs and Benefits for Latin America and the Caribbean”, with the Accelerating Health Technologies Group, Inter-American Development Bank Policy Paper, 2020

Projecting Global Emissions for Lower-Income Countries”, Center for Global Development Policy Paper, with Ian Mitchel, April, 2020

Are Randomized Poverty-Alleviation Experiments Ethical?  with Peter Singer and Johannes Haushofer, Project Syndicate, Nov 2019

Results vs. Claims: Strengthening the UK’s Aid Watchdog” with Ian Mitchell, Center for Global Development, July 2019

The Quality of UK Aid Spending, 2011–2018: An Analysis of Evaluations by the Independent Commission on Aid Impact”, Center for Global Development, with Ian Mitchel, April 2019

A Short-Sighted Vision for Global Britain” with Owen Barder and Hannah Timmis, Center for Global Development, March 1, 2018

UK Aid Quality Indicators” with Ian Mitchell, Center for Global Development, December 2018

New Estimates of EU Agricultural Support: An “Un-Common” Agricultural Policy” with Ian Mitchel, Center for Global Development, November 2019

CDI 2018 and Trade: Advanced Economies and Poverty-Weighted Trade Tariffs” with Ian Mitchel and Lee Robinson, Center for Global Development, September 2018

New Estimates of EU Agricultural Support: An “Un-Common” Agricultural Policy with Ian Mitchel, Center for Global Development, November 2019

CDI 2018 and Trade: Advanced Economies and Poverty-Weighted Trade Tariffs” with Ian Mitchel and Lee Robinson, Center for Global Development, September 2018

 

VOLUNTARY POSITIONS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

International Citizen Service Volunteer 2015 

Founder and Chair, Arts Emergency Manchester         2012 – 2014

Undergraduate Humanities Rep, University of Manchester Student’s Union 2012 – 2013

Labour Party Campaigns Officer, Manchester Labour Students 2012 – 2013

Under 19s Officer, London Young Labour         2010 2011