Chris Heitzig is an economist focused on globalization and how it affects developing countries. He is doing a PhD in Economics at IDS and also works for the World Bank on implementing social protection programs and running impact evaluations measuring their effects. Before joining the World Bank, he spent more than three years at the Brookings Institution, where he managed a $1.5 million grant funding research into youth employment and structural transformation in Africa.

Heitzig has lived and worked on four continents, and has consulted for the United Nations, the FCDO, Stanford University, Dartmouth College, the International Finance Corporation, Oxfam, ActionAid and MarketShare Associates. He holds an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford and a BA in economics from Saint John’s University. He is supervised by Amrita Saha, Jing Gu, and Sambit Bhattacharyya.