Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak is a Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, as co-chair of its Urban Services Initiative and of its Environment & Energy Sector work. He leads the Bangladesh Research Program for the International Growth Centre (IGC) at LSE. He has previously worked at the World Bank, and at the International Monetary Fund.