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Asim I. Khwaja is Director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University, Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development Professor of International Finance and Development at Harvard Kennedy School, and co-founder of the . Khwaja also serves as the faculty co-chair of the Harvard Presidential Task Force on Combating Anti-Muslim and Anti-Arab Bias.

His areas of interest include economic development, finance, education, political economy, institutions, and contract theory/mechanism design. His research combines extensive fieldwork, rigorous empirical analysis, and microeconomic theory to answer questions that are motivated by and engage with policy.

He has been published in leading economics journals, such as the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and has received coverage in numerous media outlets, such as The Economist, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, Al-Jazeera, BBC, and CNN.

His recent work ranges from understanding market failures in emerging financial markets to examining the private education market in low-income countries. He was selected as a Carnegie Scholar in 2009 to pursue research on how religious institutions impact individual beliefs.

Khwaja received BS degrees in economics and in mathematics with computer science from MIT and a PhD in economics from Harvard. He was born in London, U.K. and lived in Kano, Nigeria and Lahore, Pakistan before moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He continues to enjoy interacting with people around the globe. For more information, go to Professor Asim Khwaja's website and .

Featured Work:

Alliance Magazine, May 17, 2023

Devex, January 10, 2023

Asim Ijaz Khwaja seeks to build a thriving world for all

ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Magazine, August 2023