Dr. Bilal Siddiqi

Bilal Siddiqi is a development economist working on poverty, institutions and conflict in low- and middle-income countries. He currently serves as Senior Economist & Director at IDinsight. Prior to this, he served as the Director of Research and Growth at The Life You Can Save, where he led in-house research and evaluation and help set strategy for charity selection, fundraising, and partnerships; Director of Research at UC Berkeley’s Center for Effective Global Action, where he oversaw the Center’s research grant portfolio; and an Economist in the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation department, where he worked with governments to embed impact evaluation into their operations, and oversaw global research programs on justice reform and digital ID systems.