18 Facts About Rachel Glennerster

Rachel Glennerster was born on 21 October 1965 and is a British economist.

Rachel Glennerster is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago.

Rachel Glennerster has been announced as the new president for the Center for Global Development, starting in September 2024.

Rachel Glennerster then obtained a master's degree in Economics from Birkbeck College, University of London in 1995 and a doctorate in economics from the same institution in 2004.

Between 1988 and 1994, Rachel Glennerster worked as an economic adviser to HM Treasury in the UK government.

In 1997, Rachel Glennerster joined the International Monetary Fund, first as an economist and then as a senior economist, where she stayed until 2004.

From 2004 to 2017, Rachel Glennerster was executive director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Rachel Glennerster was the co-chair of J-PAL's agriculture sector program between 2004 and 2014, and has been the education sector co-chair since 2014.

In 2018, Rachel Glennerster joined the Department for International Development, the UK's ministry for international development cooperation, as chief economist.

Rachel Glennerster sat on the Independent Advisory Committee on Development Impact and the executive committee.

In 2021, Rachel Glennerster joined the University of Chicago as Associate Professor of Economics in the Division of Social Science.

In 2023, Rachel Glennerster joined the Board of Trustees of Our World in Data, an open-access scientific publication focused on the world's largest problems.

In May 2024, the Center for Global Development announced that Rachel Glennerster would be its next president, starting September 2024.

Rachel Glennerster succeeded Masood Ahmed, who had led the organization for seven years.

In 2007, Rachel Glennerster helped establish the Deworm the World Initiative, a program that targets increased access to education and improved health from the elimination of intestinal worms for at-risk children and has helped "deworm" millions of children worldwide.

Rachel Glennerster joined the initiative at its inception in 2009.

Rachel Glennerster is the coauthor of Running Randomized Evaluations, a book on running randomized impact evaluations in practice in developing countries, and Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases, a book that strategizes incentives for developers to undertake the costly research needed to develop vaccines.

Rachel Glennerster was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to international development.