Jishnu Das

Biography

Jishnu Das, visiting senior fellow a CPR, is a lead economist in the Development Research Group (Human Development and Public Services Team) at The World Bank. Jishnu’s work focuses on the delivery of basic services, particularly health and education. He has worked on the quality of health care, mental health, information in health and education markets, child learning and test-scores and the determinants of trust. In 2011 he was part of the core team on the World Development Report on Gender and Development. He received the George Bereday Award from the Comparative and International Education Society and the Stockholm Challenge Award for the best ICT project in the public administration category in 2006, and the Research Academy award from the World Bank in 2013. He is currently working on long-term projects on health and education markets in Kenya, India, and Pakistan. He holds a PhD in economics from Harvard.

Research Interest

His work has been published in leading economics, health, and education journals and widely covered in the media and policy forums.