Rachel Glennerster

Rachel Glennerster is Executive Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT. She is a graduate of Oxford University and received her Ph.D in 2004 from Birkbeck College, University of London. Rachel has served as Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund, Adjunct Professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Economic Adviser to the UK Treasury. She is co-author of "Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases". Her research includes randomized experiments on education, health, and microfinance in India, Community Driven Development in Sierra Leone, and empowerment of adolescent girls in Bangladesh. Rachel also serves on the board of Deworm the World, which she helped establish.