Alfredo Burlando is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Oregon, an affiliate of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at UC Berkeley in California, and an affiliate at MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University. His academic research employs randomized control trials to study the impacts of financial inclusion interventions in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. His current work focuses on consumer financial protection issues in the context of digital microcredit, digitization of financial services, and the integration of financial technology in savings groups. He is also involved in the study of ethical conduct of randomized trials in Africa. His past work includes research on human capital accumulation and the disease environment in Africa.