Bilal Siddiqi Email & Phone Number

I’m a development economist working on poverty, institutions and conflict in low- and middle-income countries. I currently serve as Senior Economist & Director at IDinsight, where I oversee the technical design and analysis of impact evaluations, design and operationalize MELA strategies, lead client development in East and Southern Africa, and provide advisory support to governments, civil society, and the private sector across the organization. My focus areas are climate change, social protection, governance, justice, conflict, and humanitarian aid. Prior to this, I’ve been Director of Research and Growth at The Life You Can Save, where I led in-house research and evaluation and help set strategy for charity selection, fundraising, and partnerships; Director of Research at UC Berkeley’s Center for Effective Global Action, where I oversaw the Center’s research grant portfolio; and an Economist in the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation department, where I worked with governments to embed impact evaluation into their operations, and oversaw global research programs on justice reform and digital ID systems.My academic research applies experimental methods to fundamental problems of development. My work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Science, Lancet, and others, and covered by the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, CBS, New York Magazine, Voice of America, Le Monde, VoxEU, the Daily Mail, Economic and Political Weekly, the Hindustan Times, Público, El Espectador, and several other outlets. Along the way, I’ve received generous support from the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office, USAID, the US DoD’s Minerva Research Initiative, the World Bank, the UN Peacebuilding Fund, the Open Society Foundation, 3ie, the International Growth Centre, and Stanford University.I’m also a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development, a member of Evidence in Governance and Politics, a research affiliate of the International Growth Centre and Innovations for Poverty Action, and a fellow of the Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan, the Consortium for Development Policy Research and the Mahbub Ul Haq Research Centre. In the past I was a Minerva Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University as part of the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project, and a Marie Curie AMID Scholar at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm. I received my Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Economics from Oxford University, where I studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Listed skills include International Development, Policy Analysis, Stata, Economics, and 8 others.