I am an Economist at the Office of the Chief Economist, Africa Region at the World Bank  based in Washington, DC. 

I work on a broad range of issues related to poverty reduction using quasi-experimental methods as well as time series analysis. My projects deal with i) the consequences of conflict and policies related to violence reduction ii) the role of the information economy in transforming rural livelihoods, and iii) long-term human capital development. 

Previously, I have worked at the Poverty Global Practice of the World Bank on Nepal and Nigeria, at UNU-WIDER, and as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Cornell University. I received my PhD in Economics at the University of Copenhagen and my Master's and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Helsinki.