Tahir Andrabi is a Co-Founder and Board Member at CERP. He is a Professor of Economics at Pomona College. Professor Tahir is the former dean of the School of Education at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He has also been a visiting scholar at MIT, a research associate at LSE and a consultant for the World Bank. He was a member of the tax and macroeconomic committees of the economic advisory board of the government of Pakistan in 1999-2000. He is the principal investigator on the four-year longitudinal study on the quality of primary education in rural Punjab funded by the World Bank and the National Science Foundation. Professor Tahir is also the Principal Investigator on a National Academy of Sciences/Higher Education Commission, Pakistan grant on evaluating the recovery from the 2005 northern Pakistan earthquake. He Co-Founded the website, risepak.com, to help coordinate relief in the aftermath of the October 2005 earthquake which was awarded the Stockholm Challenge Award (2006). Professor Andrabi has published extensively in major economics and education journals. In 2007, his work on religious education in Pakistan received the George Bereday Award for the best paper published in Comparative Education Review in 2006 from the Comparative and International Education Society. His research has been covered by The Financial Times, Toronto Globe and Mail, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, The Economist, Foreign Policy and news media around the world. Professor Tahir is a graduate of Swarthmore College and holds a Doctorate in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.