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Tarek Ghani is an Empirical Studies of Conflict Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, and will join the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis in Fall 2016 as an Assistant Professor in the Olin School of Business. His fields of specialization are development economics, organizational economics and political economy, and his research interests include how firms, markets and technologies develop in emerging and conflict-affected economies. His fieldwork includes research projects in Afghanistan, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Tarek received his Ph.D. and M.S. from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and Honors in International Security from Stanford University. Before Berkeley, Tarek managed a grant portfolio on conflict prevention issues at the private foundation Humanity United, and held prior consultancies with the World Bank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Center for Global Development.