Iftikhar Hussain is a Research Fellow at CERP. He is a lecturer in Economics at the University Of Sussex. Dr Iftikhar’s primary interests are in the areas of Labour Economics, the Economics of Education and Development Economics. He has undertaken extensive work on school reform, school accountability, parent-school choice behaviour, and the relationship between school quality and the housing market. In the area of development economics, he is currently co-investigator on a DFID-ESRC funded project investigating the role of female work in alleviating poverty, focusing on two East African countries (Ethiopia and Uganda) and two in South Asia (Bangladesh and Pakistan). Dr Iftikhar was also a member of the Ofsted Inspection Methodology Expert Panel, Economist, Financial Services Authority, London, and Economist (Overseas Development Institute Fellow), Central Bank of Uganda. Prior to joining Sussex, Dr Iftikhar earned his PhD in Economics from University College London and undertook postdoctoral research at Oxford University.