I work in international development - studying why some developing countries prosper, learning lessons from that, and seeing if it can be applied elsewhere. We

I work in international development - studying why some developing countries prosper, learning lessons from that, and seeing if it can be applied elsewhere. We do a mix of theoretical paper-publishing and also small policy engagements. Nothing I do (data munging / backend / ops / web dev / bit of data visualization) single handedly saves anyone or improves anything, but I think it helps the people actually working on this stuff, so there's that.