Michael Kremer is a Research Fellow at CERP. He is the Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Presidential Faculty Fellowship, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Dr Michael’s recent research examines education, health, water, and agriculture in developing countries. He has been named one of Scientific American’s 50 researchers of the year, and has won awards for his work on health economics, agricultural economics, and Latin America. He is a Co-recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2019. He helped develop the advance market commitment (AMC) for vaccines to stimulate private investment in vaccine research and the distribution of vaccines for diseases in the developing world. In the fall of 2010 he became the founding Scientific Director of Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) at USAID. Dr Michael received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University. He is a member of the board of Precision Agriculture for Development.