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My Curriculum Vitae
About Eric Mvukiyehe
I’m an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science (tenure track) and a Faculty (Invited) Researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and Fellow at the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS). My academic and policy research interests focus on: (i) poverty reduction and labor market frictions in low-income countries; (ii) political economy of conflict, peacebuilding, and development; (iii) state capacity; (iv) women’s empowerment; and (v) mitigation of COVID-19 socioeconomic negative consequences.
Prior to joining the Duke Faculty, I was an Economist at the World Bank’s Research Department (DEC/DIME), where I helped establish and led the Evidence for Peace (E4P) program—an innovative research program on Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) whose goal was to provide an evidence-based guide to policy action through rigorous experimentation of large-scale policies and programs, while addressing critical knowledge gaps at the same time. This work was carried out in close partnership with government ministries and agencies. At its peak, the E4P program had a portfolio of over 40 Randomized Control Trials (22 of which I personally led as PI), which covered over $2.5 billion of World Bank- and other donors-financed projects in 25 countries. The program also had $35 million in research funding. I was also the World Bank’s Institutional Representative at the Experiments in Governance and Politics (EGAP), a global research, evaluation, and learning network that promotes rigorous knowledge accumulation, innovation, and evidence-based policy in various governance and accountability domains.
Prior to joining DEC/DIME, I worked in the Word Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL), where I provided technical assistance in the design and implementation of gender programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. I was also a Democracy Fellow with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), where I developed rigorous impact evaluations and analytical work of US Government programs in the Democracy, Human Rights and Governance (DRG) sector. Finally, prior to joining the World Bank, I consulted for the United Nations (UN) Secretariat, where I led impact evaluations of UN peacekeeping operations in Cote d’Ivoire and Liberia using local population surveys, as part of a broader evaluation of these operations’ performance by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS).
I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University (2014), with focus on international security/relations, political economy, and comparative politics. I have taught, given talks and written extensively about the aforementioned research areas for many years and my research has been published in the Journal of Development Economics (JDE); the Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat); the BMJ Global Health; the Quarterly Journal of Political Science (QJPS); the World Politics (WP); the World Development (WD); the Journal of Conflict Resolution (JCR); the Journal of Peace Research (JPR); and the Comparative Political Studies (CPS), and the Tropical Medicine and International Health (TMIH), among other outlets.
About Eric Mvukiyehe
I’m an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science (tenure track) and a Faculty (Invited) Researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and Fellow at the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS). My academic and policy research interests focus on: (i) poverty reduction and labor market frictions in low-income countries; (ii) political economy of conflict, peacebuilding, and development; (iii) state capacity; (iv) women’s empowerment; and (v) mitigation of COVID-19 socioeconomic negative consequences.
Prior to joining the Duke Faculty, I was an Economist at the World Bank’s Research Department (DEC/DIME), where I helped establish and led the Evidence for Peace (E4P) program—an innovative research program on Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) whose goal was to provide an evidence-based guide to policy action through rigorous experimentation of large-scale policies and programs, while addressing critical knowledge gaps at the same time. This work was carried out in close partnership with government ministries and agencies. At its peak, the E4P program had a portfolio of over 40 Randomized Control Trials (22 of which I personally led as PI), which covered over $2.5 billion of World Bank- and other donors-financed projects in 25 countries. The program also had $35 million in research funding. I was also the World Bank’s Institutional Representative at the Experiments in Governance and Politics (EGAP), a global research, evaluation, and learning network that promotes rigorous knowledge accumulation, innovation, and evidence-based policy in various governance and accountability domains.
Prior to joining DEC/DIME, I worked in the Word Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL), where I provided technical assistance in the design and implementation of gender programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. I was also a Democracy Fellow with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), where I developed rigorous impact evaluations and analytical work of US Government programs in the Democracy, Human Rights and Governance (DRG) sector. Finally, prior to joining the World Bank, I consulted for the United Nations (UN) Secretariat, where I led impact evaluations of UN peacekeeping operations in Cote d’Ivoire and Liberia using local population surveys, as part of a broader evaluation of these operations’ performance by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS).
I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University (2014), with focus on international security/relations, political economy, and comparative politics. I have taught, given talks and written extensively about the aforementioned research areas for many years and my research has been published in the Journal of Development Economics (JDE); the Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat); the BMJ Global Health; the Quarterly Journal of Political Science (QJPS); the World Politics (WP); the World Development (WD); the Journal of Conflict Resolution (JCR); the Journal of Peace Research (JPR); and the Comparative Political Studies (CPS), and the Tropical Medicine and International Health (TMIH), among other outlets.