Asim Ijaz Khwaja is the Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development Professor of International Finance and Development at the Harvard Kennedy School, Visiting Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and Director of Harvard’s Center for International Development (CID). He is also co-founder of the Center for Economic Research Pakistan (CERP). He also co-founded the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (EFL), an award-winning social enterprise that used psychometric testing to enable lending over $1.5 billion to small entrepreneurs across 27 countries in LATAM, Africa, and South/Southeast Asia. His research combines extensive fieldwork, rigorous empirical analysis, and microeconomic theory. He has been published in the leading economics journals and has received coverage in numerous media outlets. He was selected as a Carnegie Scholar in 2009 to pursue research on how religious institutions impact individual beliefs.