Team

Lauren Gilbert is the editor in chief of In Development. She is a non-resident fellow at the Centre for British Progress, the Energy for Growth Hub, the Roots of Progress Institute and her writing has appeared in The Economist, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, Works in Progress, and Asterisk. She has previously been a program manager at Renaissance Philanthropy, a research fellow at Open Philanthropy, as well as a theoretical neutrino astrophysicist.

Oliver Hanney is a contributing editor at In Development. He is the Managing Editor at VoxDev, a platform which features the latest research in development economics through articles, blogs, podcasts, videos, and living literature reviews (VoxDevLits), who is based at CEPR’s London Office. He hosts the weekly Ideas in Development podcast, and is particularly interested in AI, growth, and how research shapes policy.

Akib Khan is a contributing editor at In Development. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Stockholm School of Economics. He studies human capital investment in developing countries and international migration. He was born and raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was previously an expat in Lusaka, working for IDinsight, and then moved to Sweden as an immigrant.

Harlan Downs-Tepper is a contributing editor at In Development. He has led development initiatives in India and Africa for foundations, researchers, and nonprofits to leverage evidence to improve wellbeing in the Global South. He holds a PhD in Public Policy.

Chinmay Ingalagavi is a contributing editor at In Development. He is an economics PhD student at UC Berkeley studying growth, trade, and urban economics. He grew up in Bengaluru, India.

Peter J Evans is a contributing illustrator at In Development. A governance, political economy, and anti-corruption specialist he is Programme Director of the ‘Open PEA’ (Open Political Economy Analysis) programme at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government. After a PhD in urban health in Tanzania, then working on urban inclusion and water and sanitation in India, he spent 20 years as an adviser in the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), posted in Lilongwe, Dhaka and Delhi. Peter then headed DFID/FCDO’s HQ team commissioning governance, inclusion, conflict and humanitarian research before leaving government to become Director of the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre in Norway. He now splits his time between Open PEA and consulting in public policy, political economy, anti-corruption and research impact. Peter writes (and draws) about political economy and public policy as ‘Not That Peter Evans’ (ie not the far more famous American political sociologist).

Jake Eaton is a contributing editor at In Development. He has a PhD in Public Health Sciences and led development projects in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East for USAID and the Gates Foundation. Previously he was an editor at Asterisk Magazine, and now works on the Editorial Team at Anthropic.