Asim Ijaz Khwaja

Asim Ijaz Khwaja
Born
London, United Kingdom
NationalityPakistan
United States
United Kingdom
Academic career
FieldDevelopment economics
InstitutionHarvard University
Alma materHarvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Aitchison College

Asim Ijaz Khwaja (Urdu: عاصم اعجاز خواجہ) is a British-born Pakistani-American economist who serves as the Sumitomo-FASID Professor of international finance and economic development at Harvard Kennedy School, and is the director of the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University.[1]

Early life and education

Asim was born in London, United Kingdom.[1] He was raised in the United Kingdom before moving to Kano, Nigeria, where he lived for eight years. He also lived in Lahore for eight years and attended Aitchison College. Later, he moved to Cambridge, United States for higher education. He obtained a bachelor's degree in economics and mathematics with computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 2001.[2][3]

Career

Khwaja joined Harvard University in June 2001 as an assistant professor.[4]

In October of 2005, Khwaja released RISE-PAK, a searchable database for earthquake relief in Pakistan.[5] He was promoted to associate professor at Harvard in June 2006 and professor in January 2010. He has also served as a visiting faculty member at Yale University's Economic Growth Center (2005) and at the Walter A. Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley. His areas of interest include development economics, corporate finance, education, political economy, institutions, mechanism design/contract theory and industrial organization. [1][3]

Khwaja is the co-founder of the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP) and also serves as co-director of Harvard Evidence for Policy Design.[6]

Personal life

Asim is a citizen of Pakistan, the United Kingdom and the United States. He is married to Sehr Jalal[7] and has three children. He is interested in chaos and complexity theory.[3]

Selected publications

  • Khwaja, Asim Ijaz; Mian, Atif (November 23, 2005). "Do lenders favor politically connected firms? Rent provision in an emerging financial market". Quarterly Journal of Economics. 120 (4): 1371–1411. doi:10.1162/003355305775097524 – via princeton-staging.elsevierpure.com.
  • Khwaja, Asim Ijaz; Mian, Atif (September 23, 2008). "Tracing the Impact of Bank Liquidity Shocks: Evidence from an Emerging Market". American Economic Review. 98 (4): 1413–1442. doi:10.1257/aer.98.4.1413 – via www.aeaweb.org.
  • Iyer, Rajkamal; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz; Luttmer, Erzo F. P.; Shue, Kelly (June 23, 2016). "Screening Peers Softly: Inferring the Quality of Small Borrowers". Management Science. 62 (6): 1554–1577. doi:10.1287/mnsc.2015.2181 – via CrossRef.
  • Clingingsmith, David; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz; Kremer, Michael (December 21, 2017). "Estimating the Impact of the Hajj: Religion and Tolerance in Islam's Global Gathering". SocArXiv – via ideas.repec.org.
  • Khwaja, Asim Ijaz (August 2009). "Can good projects succeed in bad communities?". Journal of Public Economics. 93 (7–8): 899–916. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2009.02.010.

References

  1. ^ a b c Bio/CV Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Harvard University, retrieved 2019-07-10
  2. ^ "Asim Khwaja | Poverty Reduction Lab". Retrieved 2019-05-18.
  3. ^ a b c Curriculum vitae (PDF), Harvard University, retrieved 2019-05-18
  4. ^ ""Asim Khwaja" - First Pakistani professor hired by Harvard". Siasat.pk. 20 November 2009. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
  5. ^ "Relief System for Earthquakes - Pakistan (RISEPAK)". khwaja.scholar.harvard.edu. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Asim Khwaja | Harvard Kennedy School". Retrieved 2019-05-18.
  7. ^ "Asim Ijaz Khwaja | Harvard Kennedy School". Asim Ijaz Khwaja | Harvard Kennedy School. Retrieved 2019-07-09.