Ammar Malik is a Research Fellow at the CERP. He is the Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, Non-resident fellow, Urban Institute, and previously Director of Research at Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD). He is Senior Research Scientist at AidData, a research lab at William & Mary, where he leads the Chinese Development Finance Program that uses pioneering methods to track and analyze underreported financial flows from non-traditional donors to developing countries. Recently he has also been the Data Governance Manager at AstraZeneca. His own research focuses on spatial urban forms and their economic implications, the political economy of public service delivery, and the distributional effects of urban public transport. Dr Ammar obtained his PhD in Public Policy from George Mason University, MA in Public Affairs from Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) Paris, MA in Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and BA in Economics and Mathematics from the Lahore University of Management Sciences.