Research leadership
Research Programme Directors
The Research Programme Directors lead the IGC's Research Programme, each focusing on one of the IGC’s four research themes.
State
Oriana Bandiera
Sir Anthony Atkinson Chair in Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Michael Callen
Associate Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Katherine E Casey
The RoAnn Costin Professor of Political Economy, Stanford University
Anders Jensen
Associate Professor, Harvard UniversityEnergy
Clare Balboni
Assistant Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science
Michael Greenstone
Milton Friedman Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
Mar Reguant
Professor of Economics, Northwestern University
Nicholas Ryan
Associate Professor of Economics, Yale University
Kelsey Jack
Associate Professor, University of California - BerkeleyLead Academics
The Lead Academics provide research leadership for IGC's in-country programmes.
Vittorio Bassi
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Southern California
Laura Boudreau
Associate Professor, Columbia Business School
Stefano Caria
Professor of Economics, University of Oxford
Katherine E Casey
The RoAnn Costin Professor of Political Economy, Stanford University
Ali Cheema
Vice Chancellor, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Lauren Falcao Bergquist
Assistant Professor of Economics and Global Affairs, Yale University
Asim Khwaja
Professor of International Finance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
David Lagakos
Professor of Economics, Boston University
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Jerome Kasoff ’54 Professor of Management and Economics, Yale University
Sandra Sequeira
Sandra Sequeira, Professor of Development Economics at the School of Public Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Pedro Vicente
Professor of Economics, Nova School of Business and Economics
Eric Werker
William Saywell Professor in International Business, Simon Fraser UniversityAtonu Rabbani
Professor of Economics, University of Dhaka
Simon Franklin
Associate Professor, Queen Mary University of London
Torsten Figueiredo Walter
Assistant Professor of Economics, New York University Abu Dhabi
Anne Karing
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Economics, University of Chicago
Simon Quinn
Associate Professor, Imperial College London Business SchoolThematic Initiatives
These advisors and academic leads provide research leadership for IGC's policy initiatives.
State Fragility initiative
Tim Besley
Professor of Economics and Political Science, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Paul Collier
Director, IGC and Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Oxford
Adnan Khan
Chief Economist, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
Hans Peter Lankes
Managing Director and Deputy Chief Executive, ODI
Keith Palmer
Chairman and Founder, AgDevCo