As the data IT lead for the Ethiopian Tax Office’s delivery unit in 2018, Alex directly raised an additional 0.5% of GDP in tax within our first year. He developed a free public electronic tax payments system.

David Yanagizawa-Drott is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research interests include economic development and political economy, with special focus on civil conflict, health, information and mass media. He has explored issues such as the impact of hate propaganda on violence during the 1994 Rwanda Genocide, the relationship between the government and the mass media, and how price information affects the functioning of agricultural markets in developing countries.