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 the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His areas of interest include economic development, finance, education, political economy, institutions, and contract theory/mechanism design. His research combines extensive fieldwork, rigorous empirical analysis, and microeconomic theory to answer questions that are motivated by and engage with policy. It has been published in the leading economics journals, such as the American Economic Review, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and has received coverage in numerous media outlets such as the NY Times, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Economist, Al-Jazeera, BBC, and CNN. His recent work ranges from understanding market failures in emerging financial markets to examining the private education market in low-income countries. He was selected as a Carnegie Scholar in 2009 to pursue research on how religious institutions impact individual beliefs. Khwaja received BS degrees in economics and in mathematics with computer science from MIT and a PhD in economics from Harvard. A Pakistani & UK citizen,he was born in London, U.K., lived for eight years in Kano, Nigeria, the next eight in Lahore, Pakistan, and the last eighteen years in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He continues to enjoy interacting with people around the globe.

Courses

Not Offered

  • PED-204 Firms and Industrial Policy in Developing Economies

Spring

  • API-110 Advanced Microeconomic Analysis II

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