Chris Heitzig

I am an economist focused on inequality, Africa, and often the intersection of the two. I'm doing a PhD in Economics at the Institute of Development Studies and working concurrently for the World Bank, where I implement social protection programs and run impact evaluations to measure their effects. Before joining the World Bank, I spent more than three years at the Brookings Institution, where I managed a $1.5 million grant funding research into youth employment and structural transformation in Africa.

I have lived and worked on four continents and have consulted for the United Nations, the FCDO, Stanford University, Dartmouth College, the International Finance Corporation, Oxfam, ActionAid and MarketShare Associates. I hold an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford and a BA in economics from Saint John’s University. My PhD is supervised by Amrita Saha, Jing Gu, and Sambit Bhattacharyya.