Imran Rasul is Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL). He is also the Director of the ESRC Institute for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Co-director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy (UCL), and Co-president of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD). He is an elected Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Econometric Society. He is President-elect for the Royal Economic Society for 2024 (to serve as President in 2025), and Vice-President for the European Economic Association in 2024 (to serve as President-Elect in 2025 and President in 2026). 

His research interests include labour, development and public economics and his work has been published in leading journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica and the Review of Economic Studies. He was awarded the 2007 IZA Young Labour Economist Prize, the 2008 CESIfo Distinguished Affiliate Award, an ERC Starting grant in 2012, and a British Academy Mid-career Fellowship in 2018. In 2019 he was jointly awarded the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics (with Oriana Bandiera).

Imran Rasul's website

He will present a paper, joint with Livia Alfonsi, Vittorio Bassi, and Elena Spadini, at the next Departmental Seminar on the topic:

Firm Responses to Uncertainty and Implications for Workers: Experimental Evidence from Uganda During the Pandemic (read paper)

The next Departmental Seminar will host Rachel NGAI (LSE) on October 6th.