Jing Cai is the John R. and Marjorie C. Moore Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland. She received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 2012. Her research areas are development economics and household finance, with a focus on how financial and organizational innovations can improve welfare and productivity in low- and middle-income countries. Professor Cai is a board member and co-chair of the firm sector of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a fellow of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), and a research affiliate of the International Growth Center (IGC). She currently serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Development Economics and is on the Board of Editors of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.