Chris Heitzig

I am a final-year economics PhD student at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). My research focuses on inequality, health economics, and labor. I also explore how computational methods can be used to answer questions in these sub-fields. Before starting my PhD at IDS, 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 also spent two years at the World Bank, where I implemented social protection programs and designed impact evaluations to measure their effects. 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.