Rinchan Ali Mirza is an Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Kent, having previously served as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Namur’s Center of Research in the Economics of Development from 2016 to 2019. He holds a DPhil and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, as well as a BSc in Mathematics and Management from King’s College London. His research spans economic history, political economy, the economics of religion, development economics, and applied microeconomics. Dr. Mirza is a faculty fellow at the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS), a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP), and a founding member of the Development Economics Research Centre at Kent (DeReCK), reflecting his commitment to rigorous, policy-relevant research on the political economy of development. His work has been published in Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Economic History, Explorations in Economics History and Journal of Health Economics.