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LATEST PODCAST EPISODE:
Faculty Director Katherine Casey speaks with Dean Karlan, Professor of Economics and Finance at Northwestern University and Chief Economist at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). He is also the Founder and former President of Innovations for Poverty Action, a non-profit organization dedicated to discovering and promoting solutions to global poverty problems.
Student spotlight
Undergraduate research assistants help expand entrepreneurial opportunities for refugees
Natalie Milan and Faith Zehfuss received King Center funding to research and help facilitate a 10-week entrepreneurship program for refugees in Uganda.
Read more about how they expanded the program’s enrollmentOur impact
The King Center supports research that tests promising innovations and scalable solutions to address poverty in emerging economies.