Hawes Hall, Classroom 201, Harvard Business School
Title: What would it cost to end extreme poverty?
Discussants
- Gabriel Kreindler (Economics Department, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
- Ashesh Rambachan (Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Paul Niehaus
Chancellor’s Associates Endowed Chair in Economics
UC San Diego
Economics Department
Paul is an economist and entrepreneur working to accelerate the end of extreme poverty. He is Chancellor’s Associates Endowed Chair in Economics at UC San Diego and an affiliate of BREAD, CEGA, J-PAL, and the NBER. His research examines the design, implementation, and impact of anti-poverty programs at large scales.
He is also co-founder of a series of companies working to amplify capital flows to emerging markets. He is co-founder, former president, and current director at GiveDirectly, the leading international NGO specialized in digital cash transfers and consistently rated one of the most impactful ways to give. He subsequently co-founded and served as a director of the enterprise payments company Segovia and the digital remittance company Taptap Send.