Asim Ijaz Khwaja

Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Ph.D., is Director of the Harvard Center for International Development, the Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development Professor of International Finance and Development at the Harvard Kennedy School, visiting Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and the co-founder of the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP). His areas of interest include economic development, finance, education, entrepreneurship, political economy, public policy, and institutional and organizational design. Khwaja’s research combines extensive fieldwork, rigorous empirical analysis and theory to answer questions that are motivated by and engage with policy.

He has been published in leading economics journals, such as the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and has received coverage in numerous media outlets, such as The Economist, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, Al-Jazeera, BBC and CNN.

Khwaja received BS degrees in economics and in mathematics with computer science from MIT, and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. He was born in London, U.K. and lived in Kano, Nigeria and Lahore, Pakistan before moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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