Dr. Dina Pomeranz

Biography

Dina Pomeranz's research focuses on public policies in developing countries, particularly in the areas of taxation, public procurement, and the development of firms within their environments. Prior to joining the University of Zurich, she was an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, where she taught entrepreneurship to MBA students, and she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT's Poverty Action Lab. Her work has been published in several prestigious academic journals, including the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. In 2017, she received a prestigious grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for research on the role of tax evasion in firm networks. She is also an affiliate professor at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and a member of several research organizations, including the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). In 2018, she was elected to the Council of the European Economic Association (EEA) and in 2020, she joined the Board of Management of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF). She co-founded the Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN), which supports prospective students from Africa applying to graduate schools in economics-related fields. Professor Pomeranz aims to contribute to the movement for evidence-based policymaking in developing countries, and she serves on the advisory boards of several social enterprise ventures.

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