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I am an Assistant Professor of Business Economics & Public Policy and the Robert J. Aresty, W’63 Faculty Scholar at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. I study microeconomics in the context of environment, energy, and climate in low-income contexts. I am an affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).
At Wharton, I teach Microeconomics for Managers in the MBA program. I co-organize the Development Economics seminar, the Energy Economics and Finance seminar, and the Applied Economics Workshop. I am affiliated with the UPenn Development Research Initiative, the Climate Center at Wharton's new Environmental, Social, and Governance Initiative, and Analytics at Wharton. I have a PhD from UC Berkeley (where I was affiliated with the Energy Institute at the Haas School of Business), an MA International and Development Economics from Yale University, and a BSc Statistics from the University College London. I was also an EPoD Research Fellow at Harvard University, and before that worked in international trade finance in London, Johannesburg, and Nairobi. Please use they/them pronouns when referring to me. |
Coming up:
Recent Updates:
- On October 14/15 I will present research on how procurement methods used by the World Bank and the African Development Bank affected Kenya's nationwide rural electrification program, at the CEPR/BREAD Symposium on Development Economics in London, UK.
- On October 12 I will participate in Climate Prof, a Wharton ESG event showcasing environmental and energy research by Wharton professors.
- On October 3 I will speak at a Perry World House / Wharton ESG event on Global Climate Finance.
Recent Updates:
- On September 9, Springer published a new Open-Access Handbook, "Introduction to Development Engineering", which included our chapter, "Measuring Grid Reliability in Ghana."
- On August 12, the Center for Effective Global Action published a post about our research studying how investments in Ghana's electricity grid affect reliability, power quality, and economic activities.
- On July 18, the World Bank blog Sustainable Energy for All published a post about our research studying the Ghanaian government's energy subsidy program in response to the economic hardship caused by the Covid pandemic.