Andrew Beath currently serves as a Senior Economist with the World Bank Group’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG). Throughout his career in the institution, Andrew has worked in a variety of roles, including IFC’s Country Advisory and Economics unit for the Middle East, Central Asia, and Türkiye; the Markets, Competition, and Technology global unit; the Office of President Jim Yong Kim; the Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation South Asia unit; the Office of the Chief Economist for East Asia and the Pacific; and the South Asia Governance and Public Sector unit. Before joining the World Bank Group as a staff-member in 2010, Andrew lived for three years in Afghanistan, where he led the randomized impact evaluation of the country's largest development project. Andrew has a PhD from Harvard University, an MPA/ID from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a BA from Illinois Wesleyan University and has published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Political Science Review, International Peacekeeping, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies.