Tavneet Suri

EconomistModern· Kenyan

Tavneet Suri studies how digital money affects poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her research with William Jack showed that Kenya's M-Pesa mobile money lifted two percent of Kenyan households out of extreme poverty. She co-leads a twelve-year universal basic income experiment in Kenya with GiveDirectly, one of the largest tests of a basic income ever run.