Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak is a Lead Academic for IGC Bangladesh.
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak is the Jerome Kasoff ’54 Professor of Management and Economics at Yale University with appointments in the School of Management and in the Department of Economics. Mobarak is the founder and faculty director of the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE, yrise.yale.edu). Mobarak has several ongoing research projects in Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, Kenya, and Nepal. He conducts field experiments exploring ways to induce people in developing countries to adopt technologies or behaviors that are likely to be welfare-improving. He also examines the complexities of scaling up development interventions that are proven effective in such trials.
His research has been published in journals across disciplines, including Science, Nature, Econometrica, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, BMJ, Nature: Medicine, the American Political Science Review, PNAS, Marketing Science, and Demography, and covered by the New York Times, The Economist, NPR, BBC, NBC, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Science, Nature, and other media outlets around the world. Current projects involve encouraging both international and internal migration, and last-mile delivery of child and maternal health services. The scaling research activities involve institutional partnerships with BRAC, the Governments of Bangladesh and Sierra Leone, and other NGO and private sector entities.
