I am a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD) and Director of the Market Shaping Accelerator (MSA). Previously, I held research fellowships at Stanford University (in the GSB’s Golub Capital Social Impact Lab and the Center on Democracy Development and Rule of Law) and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. (IAST) I earned my Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where I was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Before graduate school I worked with the Nigerian Government on development policy.
My work focuses on practical questions at the intersection of politics, behavior, and development: How can governments earn trust and respond to citizens? What strengthens accountability? And what helps people follow policies that protect public health and wellbeing? I use a mix of experiments, surveys, and interviews in Africa and the United States to study these issues and test what works.
Contact: lrosenzweig@cgdev.org