Imran Rasul is a Research Fellow at CERP. He is a Professor of Economics at the University College London. He is the Co-director, ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), and Research Programme Director, of Firms Portfolio, International Growth Centre (IGC). In 2019, Dr Imran was jointly awarded the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics (joint with Oriana Bandiera), for his contribution to theoretical and applied research that is significant to economics in Europe. He was also elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2019. Dr Imran’s research interests include labour, development, and public economics. His work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrics, and the Review of Economic Studies. He is currently the Managing Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association (2019-22), and has been a co-editor of the Review of Economic Studies (2009-13). He received his PhD in economics from the London School of Economics and completed his MPhil in Economics from Oxford University.