Science, Environment and Development Group

Ms. Jessica Leino
Center for International Development
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
504 Rubenstein Building
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Tel: (1) 617-495-1417
Fax: (1) 617-496-8753
Email: jessica_leino "at" ksg.harvard.edu
Group affiliation: Doctoral Research Fellow

Jessica Leino is a Doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Development and a doctoral candidate in the Economics Department at the University of California at Berkeley. She studies how to design institutions that improve the provision of local public goods. She is collecting data from a randomized evaluation in rural Kenya to examine how the participation of women in management committees may improve local management of water and other resources. Leino has previously worked as a researcher at the Brookings Institution and as a project evaluation consultant in East Africa for the World Bank and several NGOs. She has been awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2003), in addition to research grants from the Institute of Business and Economic Research at Berkeley. She received an MPhil with merit in Development Studies from Cambridge University in 2001 and an AB in Economics magna cum laude from Harvard University in 2000. She enjoys traveling, hiking and baking in her spare time.