Associate Professor (without tenure) in the Kennedy School at Harvard University and Research Co-Director of the State Program at the International Growth Centre (IGC). He is also a faculty research affiliate at National Bureau of Economic Research, and an International Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Anders received a PhD in Economics from LSE in 2016, and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at NBER before joining Harvard Kennedy School. His research interests are in public finance and development.