David McKenzie
World Bank
Lead Economist, Development Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Development Unit
David McKenzie is a Lead Economist in the Development Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Development Unit. He received his B.Com.(Hons)/B.A. from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University. Prior to joining the World Bank, he spent four years as an assistant professor of Economics at Stanford University. His main research is on migration, enterprise development, and methodology for use with developing country data. He has published more than 100 articles in journals such as the
Quarterly Journal of Economics,
Science, Review of Economics and Statistics,
Journal of the European Economic Association,
Economic Journal,
American Economic Journal: Applied Micro,
Journal of Econometrics, and all leading development journals. He is currently on the editorial boards of the
Journal of Development Economics, the
World Bank Economic Review, and
Migration Studies. He is also a co-founder and regular contributor to the
Development Impact blog.