Executive Director, Development Innovation LabUniversity of Chicago
Ben Krause is a social sector leader, international development professional, humanitarian emergency responder, and PhD development economist. For more than two decades, he has been identifying and implementing impactful programming with marginalized communities and local governments across more than 30 low- and middle-income countries as well as in the US. Ben has a record of launching, rapidly building, and strategically leading highly collaborative, diverse, and dynamic organizations; crafting and implementing evidence-informed development policy; and designing and writing causally-identified, policy-relevant research. Today, Ben is at the University of Chicago where he launched and serves as the founding Executive Director for the Development Economics Center which is dedicated to using the tools of economics to develop innovations with the potential to benefit millions of people – especially in low- and middle-income countries.