Matthew Collin
Matthew is a development economist joining GRADE as a Visiting Researcher until January 2023. Until recently he has worked at the World Bank in their Fiscal Policy and Sustainable Growth unit. Prior to that he was a David M. Rubenstein Fellow at the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brooking Institution. He has worked at the World Bank’s Global Tax Team and in the office of the Chief Economist for Human Development, as a Research Fellow at the Center for Global Development, as a Research Officer at the Centre for the Study of African Economies, and as a Budget Officer in the Ministry of Finance in Malawi.
His research and policy work is currently focused on curbing illicit financial flows, particularly those from developing countries. He works in the space between cross-border tax evasion and anti-money laundering (AML) policy, where his goal is to ensure that policies in this space are data and evidence-based wherever possible. He also works on a number of more tradition development economics topics, ranging from land rights to child marriage.
Matthew holds a PhD in Economics and a MSc in Economics for Development from the University of Oxford.
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/mattcollin/home.
