President of the Center for Global Development, Dr. Rachel Glennerster, discusses the CGD and why the future of global progress depends on simple, scalable, and evidence-based solutions.
Discover how targeted innovations in health, education, agriculture, and social protection can overcome the deepest constraints in the world's emerging economies.
Learn more about the Center for Global Development: https://www.cgdev.org/.
Prior to joining the Center for Global Development, Dr. Rachel Glennerster was at the University of Chicago. She has leveraged randomized trials to address critical issues spanning democracy, health, education, and women's empowerment and pioneered ways to shape markets to promote innovation to address global challenges including pandemics and climate change.
Dr. Glennerster previously served as Chief Economist at the Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and the Department for International Development in the UK. From 2004 to 2017, she served as Executive Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a center in the Economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which seeks to reduce poverty by ensuring policy is informed by scientific evidence and helped pioneer the use of randomized trials in development economics.
In 2021, Dr. Glennerster was appointed Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) for services in international development. She also currently serves as the Chair of Teaching at the Right Level Africa (TaRL Africa).