Asim Khwaja

Associate Professor of Public Policy
Kennedy School
Office Address
Littauer-311
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 46
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-384-7790
Fax: 617-496-5960
Email: asim_ijaz_khwaja@harvard.edu
Assistant
Sean Lewis-Faupel (617-496-0744)
Asim Khwaja

Profile

Asim Ijaz Khwaja is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Universitys Kennedy School of Government. His areas of interest include economic development, corporate finance, education, political economy, industrial organization, contract theory, mechanism design, and computational economics. Combining fieldwork, micro-level empirical analysis, and theory, his recent work ranges from understanding political and informational constraints in emerging financial markets to examining the private education market in low-income countries. He received BS degrees in economics and in mathematics with computer science from MIT and a PhD in economics from Harvard. A Pakistani citizen, Khwaja was born in London, U.K., lived for eight years in Kano, Nigeria, the next eight in Lahore, Pakistan, and the last sixteen years in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He continues to enjoy interacting with people around the globe.

Courses

Spring

  • API-110 Advanced Microeconomic Analysis II

Not Offered

  • PED-204 Firms and Industrial Policy in Developing Economies

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