Catia Batista is a Professor of Economics at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and co-Founder and Scientific Director of the NOVAFRICA research center at the same institution. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago. Catia has research interests related to international migration and remittance flows, financial inclusion, entrepreneurship, technology adoption, education and policy evaluation. She has done work including randomized and lab-in-the-field experiments in countries such as Cape Verde, the Gambia, Ireland, Kenya, Portugal, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe. Catia has taught macroeconomics, development and international economics at the departments of Economics of the University of Chicago, University of Oxford, Trinity College Dublin, Notre Dame University and Universidade Nova de Lisboa. In the past she has also worked at the International Monetary Fund and at the Portuguese Catholic University. She has also worked as a consultant for the IGC (International Growth Center, based at the London School of Economics) and for the World Bank. She is affiliated as a researcher with CReAM (London, UK), IZA (Bonn, Germany) and JPAL Europe (Paris, France).