Dina Pomeranz is a professor of economics at the University of Zurich. Her research focuses primarily on public policies in low- and middle-income countries, in particular in the areas of taxation, public procurement, firm development and the environment. She also serves in the Swiss Federal Advisory Commissions for International Cooperation and for Migration and is on the Board of the largest Swiss Development NGO, Helvetas. Prior to joining the University of Zurich, she was an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT’s Poverty Action Lab.