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Professor Dina Pomeranz among the ten most influential Swiss economists

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Professor Dina Pomeranz named among the ten most influential Swisseconomists and elected to the Council of the European Economic Association.

Dina Pomeranz's research focuses on public policies in developing countries, inparticular the areas of taxation and public procurement. She contributes to themove towards more evidence-based policy making, both in developing and moreeconomically developed countries. Prior to joining the University of Zurich, shewas an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, where she taughtentrepreneurship for MBA students. She was also a post-doctoral fellow at MIT'sPoverty Action Lab.

Ms Pomeranz is an affiliate professor at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab(J-PAL), the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD)and the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), as well as a non-resident

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Economic Review and the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics andthe Journal of Economic Development. In 2017, she was awarded a prestigiousgrant from the European Research Council (ERC) for her research on tax evasionand the role of firm networks. She shares her work and thoughts on Twitter(@dinapomeranz) with more than 41'000 followers.  

Besides her academic interests, Professor Pomeranz serves on the board oradvisory board of a number of social enterprise ventures committed to translatingresearch into practice, including Evidence Action, TamTam-Together AgainstMalaria and IDinsight. In 2019, she was named one of the ten most influentialeconomists in Switzerland by the Tages-Anzeiger. 

Dina earned a Master in International Relations (2001) and a Master inInternational Economics (2003) from the Graduate Institute and a PhD inEconomics from Harvard University. 

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