Welcome to my website! 

I have joined McKinsey & Company.

From 2020-2021, I was a Senior (Postdoctoral) Associate at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for the Study of African Economies. I carried out economics research on measuring digital development and on evaluating the impact of public policies using big data and I also oversaw advisory work on economy-wide digital transformation in several countries.

I defended my PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science on spatial and labour economics in September 2020. My research focused on urban development, migration, climate change impacts and public policy evaluation in developing countries. 

In 2022, I advised Research ICT Africa on the design of its 'After Access' digital inclusion survey to be undertaken in 10 African countries funded by the Gates Foundation. I recently carried out spatial economic analysis work for the World Bank in Bangladesh. Prior to my PhD, I worked for the World Bank as a consultant on several national infrastructure projects in Indonesia and on industrial policy/regional planning in South Africa. I have also worked as Senior Researcher at the Development Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town School of Economics and as Visiting Researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs, and have co-authored/contributed to papers/reports for IZA, UN-Habitat, UNDP and UNECA. 

I hold an MRes in public policy economics (Paris School of Economics); an MSc in urban planning and development economics (Darmstadt University of Technology); and a BSocSci in economics, politics and philosophy (University of Cape Town).

My email address is matthew.j.sharp@gmail.com.