Research Roadmap: Doing More with Less

About the Speakers

Marshall Burke, Faculty Affiliate at the King Center on Global Development

Marshall Burke is a professor in the Global Environmental Policy unit in the Doerr School of Sustainability, deputy director at the Center on Food Security and the Environment, and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Woods Institute, and SIEPR at Stanford University. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a co-founder of AtlasAI, a remote sensing start-up. His research focuses on social and economic impacts of environmental change and on measuring and understanding economic development in emerging markets. His work has appeared in both economic and scientific journals, including recent publications in Nature, Science, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and The Lancet. He holds a PhD in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA in international relations from Stanford University.

Arun Chandrasekhar, Faculty Affiliate at the King Center on Global Development

Arun Chandrasekhar is a professor in the economics department at Stanford. He works on development economics and studies the role that social networks play in developing countries. He is particularly interested in how the economics of networks can help us understand information aggregation failures and the breakdown of cooperation in the developing world. His research approach is methodologically diverse, and includes novel data collection, field experiments, and observational data analysis. Professor Chandrasekhar holds a BA from Columbia University and a PhD in economics from MIT.

Duncan Lawrence, Executive Director at the Immigration Policy Lab

Duncan Lawrence is the executive director of the Immigration Policy Lab (IPL) and a Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University. He also served as the founding executive director of IPL at Stanford from 2014-2022. He brings to IPL a wealth of diverse experience having worked directly with immigrants, nonprofits, and foundations in various roles from medical interpreter to researcher. Prior to joining IPL, he served as Senior Director of Innovation for the Resettlement, Asylum, and Integration department at the International Rescue Committee (IRC). Duncan received his PhD and MA from University of Colorado Boulder and his BA from Hamilton College. He is a two-time Fulbright recipient, having served as an Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Argentina in 2005 and a Fulbright Scholar in Chile in 2013.