Zain Chaudhry is a Graduate Student Fellow at CERP. Dr Zain has worked on Governance, Financial Development, Labour Policy, Institutional Design and Education Policy using randomized trials, lab experiments, quasi-natural experiments, and panel data. He has previously done data analysis for a Governance Project led by Professors Acemoglu and Khwaja. He has also worked with MIT’s Poverty Action Lab (JPAL) affiliated researchers at CREST in France, a Former Senior Economist at the World Bank, and an Advisor to the European Central Bank. His research interests lie in Development Economics, with a focus on Governance and Political Economy. He studies these issues using lab-in-the-field experiments, quasi-natural experiments and Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs). Dr Zain holds a PhD in Economics from Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.