Keynote Speaker

Dean Karlan, Professor of Economics and Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Dean Karlan is the founder of Innovations for Poverty Action and co-Founder of ImpactMatters. He was the Chief Economist of USAID from 2022 until 2025.

His research focuses on microeconomic issues of poverty, typically employing experimental methodologies and insights from behavioral economics to examine what works, what does not, and why to address social problems. 

Professor Dean Karlan is leading or involved with the following research initiatives that operate both in low-income countries and the United States: Global Poverty Research Lab (Northwestern University); Financial Inclusion Program (Innovations for Poverty Action), Finance Program (M.I.T. Jameel Poverty Action Lab), Small and Medium Enterprises Program (Innovations for Poverty Action), and the Social Protection Program (Innovations for Poverty Action).

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The event is organised by the Centre for Finance and Development and PEDL