Adnan Khan is a Professor at the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

He is currently on secondment to the UK Government as Chief Economist of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). He is currently a member of the Steering Committee for United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Global Synthesis Coalition. I am also the Chairperson for FCDO-BII Evaluations and Learning Steering Group for the British International Investment (formerly CDC).

He was an Associate with the Building State Capability Program at Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University. He was previously an Affiliate of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, a founder board member of Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP), co-leader of Reducing Fragilities Initiative at the International Growth Centre (IGC) and affiliated with Yale University’s Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE). He worked at the IGC at LSE for 10 years where he catalysed research-policy collaborations in Africa and Asia. He has previously served as a bureaucrat in Pakistan Administrative Service for over 10 years.

His work focuses on development economics, organisational economics and political economy and has published in the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He has worked on large scale field experiments conducted in collaboration with governments and other policy actors. He studied at Harvard Kennedy School and received his PhD in Economics from Queen’s University.