Meet the researchers working together with GBL to prove the business case for worker wellbeing.

Andelyn Russell is a Ph.D. student in Wharton Applied Economics. She completed her B.S. in Operations Research from Columbia University. Prior to joining Wharton, Andelyn was a research assistant in health economics at J-PAL North America. Her research interests include identity, discrimination, education, and health among women and migrants in developing economies.

Dr. Levine is a Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor at Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He is the chair of the Economic Analysis and Policy Group. He has also chaired the Advisory Board for Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA). His research interests include health-related behaviors, health-promoting goods, and organizational learning.

Emir Murathanoglu is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics and Business at the University of Michigan. Prior to his doctoral degree, he was an economic consultant at Cornerstone Research for 2 years in New York. His research interests include economic development, economic geography, and migration.

Dr. Khanna is an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCSD's School of Global Policy and Strategy. He is also a faculty affiliate at the Center for Effective Global Action, and a Non-resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development. His research interests include Development Economics, Labor Economics, and Applied Econometrics with a focus on education, migration, infrastructure, and conflict.

Heather Esper is the Director of the Performance Measurement and Improvement team at the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan. She specializes in designing and implementing customized monitoring, evaluation, and learning solutions to assess and enhance the economic, social, and environment performance and outcomes of organizations and businesses. She has over 15 years of experience leading partnerships and research in low- and middle-income countries.

Dr. Schofield is an Assistant Professor at Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Prior to that, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre of Global Development. She's an economist studying development, health, and behavioral economics. Her research interests include health human capital and its role in economic productivity, cognitive function, and decision-making and the role of financial and social incentives in promoting healthy behaviors.

Dr. Huayu Xu is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the National School of Development and ISSCAD at Peking University. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2020. His research interests are in development economics and political economy.

Jean-François Gauthier is a Ph.D. candidate at Boston College where he is also a teaching fellow for Intermediate Microeconomics. He completed his M.Sc from HEC, Montreal. His research interests include personnel economics, labor economics, and development economics.

Dr. Jorge Tamayo is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business school. He is an applied microeconomist. Prior to his doctoral degree, he worked at the Central Bank of Colombia and as an adjunct professor in the department of economics at Eafit University. His research interests include industrial organization and development economics.

Karan Nagpal is an Economist at IDinsight. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford, where his research focused on governance and urbanization in developing countries. At IDinsight, he has led the design and analysis of impact evaluations and sample surveys across several sectors, including financial inclusion, sanitation, and primary healthcare. He is a Co-Principal Investigator on Financial inclusion project which is a collaboration between GBL and IDinsight.

Prof. Nathan Congdon is the Ulverscroft Chair of Global Eye Health at Queen's University Belfast, Professor of Preventive Ophthalmology at Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center (ZOC) in China and Director of Research for Orbis International. His research focuses on improving the quality of eye care service in underserved settings in LMICs, and on high-quality, policy-relevant randomized trials demonstrating specific ways in which vision care accelerates progress towards the SDGs. The most recent example of the latter is the Wellcome Trust-funded ENGINE (Eyecare Nurtures Good-health, Innovation, driving-safety, and Education) program, involving 29 partners in four countries, which he directs.

A former data scientist with a B.S. in statistics, Parker is making a transition toward economics and public policy research and is excited to be a partner of the GBL team.

Dr. Souza is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Warwick University in the UK. He completed his PhD in Economics at the London School of Economics. His research interests include Microeconometrics, applied Microeconomics, and Social Networks.

Russell Morton is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of Michigan. Prior to his doctoral degree, he worked at Cornerstone Research as a Research Associate. His research fields are development and industrial organization and he is interested in understanding how market frictions impact low-income countries and researching policy solutions that can reduce their negative effects.

Sandhya holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and previously used to work at Harvard University as a researcher. When she is not dissecting and analyzing popular media for tropes, she is most often trying to survive and keep herself motivated to enter a doctoral program in the near future. (Remember to wish her luck and unsolicited advice appreciated).

Dr. Molina is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a Research Affiliate at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics. Her research interests include development, health, and labor economics.

Dr. Bassi is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. He is also a Lead Academic of the Uganda Country Team of the International Growth Center, as well as a CEPR and CEGA Affiliate. His research interests include labor and development. Vittorio joined USC in 2017, after completing his Ph.D. in Economics from University College London.