Edward Miguel is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and Faculty Director of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA). His main research focus is African economic development, including work on the economic causes and consequences of violence; the impact of ethnic divisions on local collective action; and interactions between health, education, environment, and productivity for the poor. He has conducted field work in Kenya, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and India. Miguel is a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an Associate Editor at theQuarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. He is a recipient of the 2005 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, winner of the 2005 Kenneth J. Arrow Prize, and recipient of the 2012 U.C. Berkeley campus-wide Distinguished Teaching Award. He is author with Ray Fisman of Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations(Princeton University Press 2008), and author of Africa’s Turn? (MIT Press 2009). Miguel earned S.B. degrees in both Economics and Mathematics from MIT, and received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow.