Elan Satriawan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He is also Chief of the Policy Working Group, a policy think tank under the National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K), which sits under the Office of the Vice President (2015-present). In the past, he was the Lead Evaluator in the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit of TNP2K (2010-2014), Senior Research Fellow of Jameel Poverty Action Lab/JPAL-MIT (2008-2009), and was a Consultant for the World Bank (2007-2009). Associate Project Director, Indonesia Family Life Survey, Wave‐3 (RAND Corp. and Gadjah Mada University (2000-2002). He obtained his PhD from Michigan State University (2009).