Bilal Siddiqi is a Research Fellow at CERP. He is a development economist working on poverty, institutions, and conflict in low and middle-income countries. He currently serves as Director of Research and Growth at The Life You Can Save, where he leads in-house research and evaluation and helps set strategies for charity selection, fundraising, and partnerships. He is the Director of Research at the Centre for Effective Global Action (CEGA), University of California, Berkeley, a Non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development, and formerly an Economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank. Dr Bilal is a member of Evidence in Governance and Politics, a research affiliate of the International Growth Centre and Innovations for Poverty Action, the Consortium for Development Policy Research, and the Mahbub Ul Haq Research Centre. In the past, he was a Minerva Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University as part of the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project, and a Marie Curie AMID Scholar at the Institute for International Economic Studies in Stockholm. His research focuses on public sector governance and justice reform, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected situations. He is involved in a range of field experiments in Africa and South Asia, involving legal aid and mediation, post-conflict reconciliation, and citizen-led accountability of public service providers and commercial investors. His academic research applies experimental methods to fundamental problems of development. His work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Science, Lancet, and others, and covered by the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, CBS, New York Magazine, Voice of America, Le Monde, VoxEU, The Daily Mail, Economic and Political Weekly, the Hindustan Times, Público, El Espectador, and several other outlets. Along the way, he received generous support from the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) , USAID, the US DoD’s Minerva Research Initiative, the World Bank, the UN Peacebuilding Fund, the Open Society Foundation, 3ie, The International Growth Centre, and Stanford University. He received his PhD and M.Phil in Economics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.