Rachel Glennerster

Who is Rachel Glennerster?

Rachel Glennerster is the current Executive Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her current research includes randomized evaluations of community driven development in Sierra Leone, empowerment of adolescent girls in Bangladesh, and health, education, and microfinance in India. She is now the Lead Academic for the Sierra Leone country programme of the International Growth Centre, a research centre which is based jointly at The London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Oxford.

Before joining J-PAL, Glennerster worked as an Economic Adviser to HM Treasury, a Development Associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development, and as a Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund. Glennerster received her B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Birkbeck College, University of London.

Glennerster is a member of Giving What We Can, an international society for the promotion of poverty relief.