J-Pal hires more ITFD students

Congratulations to Filippo Sebastio, who will work for J-PAL (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab) in Bangladesh, starting this summer. He will help with evaluating policy interventions designed to reduce poverty, using the randomized experiment methodology.

Moving on...

It's always nice to hear from our former students, and all the more so when they are doing well. Juan Montecino, who attended the ITFD master as part of our inaugural year 2008-09, just dropped me a line from Washington, DC, where he is working for Center for Economic and Policy Research for a think tank called the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He is covering international economic developments, with a special eye on IMF policy and Latin America. Recently, he put his skills to use in the policy paper IMF-Supported Macroeconomic Policies and the World Recession: A Look at Forty-One Borrowing Countries. We hope to see more policy research from Juan in the future!