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Rachel Glennerster CMG (born 21 October 1965)[1] is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago.[2] Glennerster served as chief economist for the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, formerly the Department for International Development (DFID),[3] the UK's ministry for international development cooperation, after formerly serving on DFID's Independent Advisory Committee on Development Impact.[4] She is an education sector academic co-chair at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).[5] She was the executive director of J-PAL until 2017 and the lead academic for Sierra Leone at the International Growth Centre, a research centre based jointly at The London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Oxford.[6] She helped establish the Deworm the World Initiative, a program that targets increased access to education and improved health from the elimination of intestinal worms for at-risk children [7] and has helped "deworm" millions of children worldwide.[8]
Before joining J-PAL and the International Growth Centre, Glennerster worked as an economic adviser to HM Treasury, a Development Associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development, and as a senior economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). She was also a member of the UK delegation to the IMF and World Bank in the mid-1990s.[4] Glennerster is a member of Giving What We Can, an effective altruism organization whose members pledge to give 10% of their income to effective charities.[9]
Glennerster is the coauthor of Running Randomized Evaluations, a book on running randomized impact evaluations in practice in developing countries, and Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases, a book that strategizes incentives for developers to undertake the costly research needed to develop vaccines.[4]
Glennerster is cited as among the top 2% of female economists as of November 2021, according to IDEAS/RePEC.[10]
She was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to international development.[11]