Theresa Chaudhry is a Research Fellow at CERP. She is an Associate Professor of Economics and a fellow of the Centre for Research in Economics and Business (CREB) at the Lahore School of Economics (LSE). Prior to teaching at LSE, Dr Theresa worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. on issues of public finance and public sector governance. She received a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2005 and a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in 1996. Her dissertation focused on the nature of inter-firm cooperation within clusters of small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries. This research included an empirical study of the contract enforcement environment in Pakistan, using data from a commissioned survey of the surgical goods industry based in Sialkot.