Start

04-26-2023
11:00 AM

End

04-26-2023
12:00 PM

Location

IB1051 / Zoom

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Event details

Schedule: Wednesday, Apr 26th, 2023, 11:15am–12:15pm

Location: IB1051

Speaker: Dr. Ammar A. Malik, Senior Research Scientist at AidData

Moderator: Dr. Pippa Morgan, Lecturer in Political Science at Duke Kunshan University 

Bio

Dr. Ammar A. Malik is Senior Research Scientist at AidData, where he heads the Chinese Development Finance Program. His team develops pioneering methods, such as the Tracking Underreported Financial Flows (TUFF) methodology, to track and analyze underreported financial flows from non-traditional donors to developing countries. Prior to joining AidData, Dr. Malik was Director of Research at Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD), a research initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. His own research covers several themes within international development: spatial structures of cities, transport infrastructure investments, labor markets, public service delivery, forced displacement, and gender. His papers have appeared in leading academic journals and he has won over a dozen competitive research grants from leading institutions such as the World Bank, Hewlett Foundation, Canada’s IDRC, UK’s DFID, US Department of State, US Agency for International Development, Germany’s GIZ and the International Growth Centre. Dr. Malik obtained his PhD in Public Policy from George Mason University.

*This event is organized by the China and the Global South Cluster.