Tahir Andrabi is professor of economics at Pomona College and director of social policy at the Center for Economic Research, Pakistan (CERP), which he co-founded. He has been a visiting scholar at MIT, a research associate at the London School of Economics and a consultant for the World Bank. He was a member of the tax and macroeconomic committees of the economic advisory board of the government of Pakistan from 1999 to 2000. He has published extensively in economics and education journals, and he teaches classes in economic development, game theory, international economics and empirical microeconomics. In 2007, his work on religious education in Pakistan received the George Bereday Award from the Comparative and International Education Society. He also co-founded a website to help coordinate relief after the October 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. Andrabi is a graduate of Swarthmore College and holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Panel:
Pakistan: Can Civil Society Create a Stable, Prosperous Future?

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