Noam Angrist

Noam Angrist is the Academic Director of the What Works Hub for Global Education at the University of Oxford as well as the co-founder of Youth Impact, one of the largest NGOs dedicated to scaling-up health and education programs backed by randomized trial evidence. In addition to scaling proven programs with governments, Youth Impact conducts regular, rapid A/B tests to optimize cost-effectiveness of programs on the path to scale. Angrist has published in leading academic journals including Nature, Nature Human Behaviour, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Angrist developed key components of the World Bank Human Capital Index and co-led research underpinning the Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel. Angrist holds a PhD from the University of Oxford.