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Board of Directors

Scientific Advisors

Board of Directors

Benjamin Appen

Founding Partner, Co-Chair of Investment Committee, and CEO, Magnitude Capital

Trey Beck

Public Policy Analyst

Vineet Bewtra

Senior Advisor, Global Innovation Fund

Annie Duflo

Executive Director, IPA and Ex Officio Member, Board of Directors

Heather Grizzle

Founding Partner, Causeway Strategies

Laura Hattendorf

Senior Advisor, Mulago Foundation

Jane Kabubo-Mariara

Executive Director, Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)

Karen Levy

Co-Founder, Fit for Purpose

Jyotsna Puri

Associate Vice-President - Strategy and Knowledge Department (SKD), IFAD

Russell Siegelman

Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Chairman, IPA Board of Directors

Colin Teichholtz

Head of Fixed Income, Eisler Capital

Kentaro Toyama

W. K. Kellogg Professor of Community Information, University of Michigan School of Information

David Wells

High Growth Tech Company Board Member & Advisor

Agnieszka Zieminska Yank

Chief Talent Officer, APCO

Janet Zhou

Director, Strategy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Founder and Former President and Chairman of the Board

Dean Karlan

Founder of IPA; Professor of Economics and Finance at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management; Co-Director of the Global Poverty Research Lab

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