Professor Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

Yale University

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak is the Jerome Kasoff ’54 Professor of Management and Economics at Yale University with concurrent 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).Mobarak has several ongoing research projects in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sierra Leone. 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. For example, he is scaling and testing strategies to address seasonal poverty using migration subsidies or consumption loans in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Indonesia. His research has been published in journals across disciplines, including Science, Nature, Econometrica, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, BMJ, 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. He received a Carnegie Fellowship in 2017 and was named to the inaugural Vox list of 50 “scientists working to build a more perfect future in 2022.

Professor Eric Strobl

University of Bern

Eric Strobl is Professor of Empirical Environmental and Climate Economics at the University of Bern, as well as part-time research professor at the University of Birmingham and honorary professor of the department of economics at UWI Mona. He holds a BA (Penn State University), a MA (Georgetown University), and a PhD (Trinity College Dublin) in economics. Previously he has held positions at the Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, University of West Indies (St. Agustine), Universite Catholique de Louvain, Unversite de Parish Nanterre, Ecole Polytechnique, and Unversite Aix-Marseille. He has published widely in development economics, labour economics, international economics, environmental economics, and more recently environmental economic history.