Rodrigo Cordova-Ponce

MIT GOV/LAB Alumni

Rodrigo was a Research Affiliate at MIT GOV/LAB. He has also been a Senior Research Associate at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA Mexico) and Lecturer in Probability and Statistics at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico. Rodrigo supported MIT GOV/LAB on survey and experimental data collection strategies to better understand the social and economic effects of Covid-19 in sub-Saharan Africa. His main research work focuses on violence and public security strategies, informal and illegal markets’ dynamics, as well as economic development strategies for local governments. Previously, he worked as an instructor in Economics at the Harvard Kennedy School, as a consultant for the World Bank on impact evaluation strategies, and as a Research Associate at the Drug Policy Program at CIDE. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Policy from CIDE and a Master’s degree in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) from Harvard University.