Tavneet Suri

Tavneet Suri is co-chair of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)' agriculture sector and a J-PAL research affiliate. She is an associate professor of applied economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Tavneet’s research centres on applied microeconomic issues in sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, she works on technology adoption (agricultural, water, cell phone), risk sharing and consumption smoothing, the role of measurement error in poverty dynamics, and the role of infrastructure in the development of markets. Her research currently spans Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and Sierra Leone.

In addition to her roles at J-PAL and MIT, Tavneet is an NBER faculty research fellow, a junior affiliate at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the co-director of the 'Agriculture research programme' at the International Growth Center (IGC).

Tavneet completed her PhD in Economics at Yale University.