CEO and co-founder, IDinsight
Dr. Neil Buddy Shah is the CEO and co-founder of IDinsight, a client-service nonprofit that uses data and evidence to help leaders combat poverty globally. IDinsight carefully tailors a wide range of impact evaluation and other quantitative tools (e.g., machine learning) to enable our clients to design better policies, rigorously evaluate those ideas, and take informed action at scale to improve lives. IDinsight makes rigorous impact evaluation and other quantitative tools more demand-driven and responsive to the budgetary, operational and time constraints faced by policymakers and managers working in international development.
Dr. Shah has worked previously at the World Bank’s Governance and Public Sector Reform Unit and at MIT’s Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
Dr. Shah holds a B.A. in economics from Harvard University, an M.D. with special distinction in global health policy from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and an M.P.A.-International Development from Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has represented IDinsight as an Echoing Green Fellow, a Rainer Arnhold Fellow, and one of Forbes Magazine’s top “30 under 30″ social entrepreneurs around the world.
Clean Energy • Clean Water • Early Childhood to Primary Education • Economic Opportunity • Education • Financial Services • Health • Health Delivery • Livelihoods • Living Conditions • Post-Secondary Education • Responsible Supply Chains • Sanitation • Secondary Education • Smallholder Productivity • Sustainable Markets • Women's and Girls' Education • Youth Job Skills
Central and Southern Asia, Southeast Asia, West and Central Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa