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Neil Buddy Shah is Managing Director at Givewell.  Prior to this he was a Founding Partner of IDinsight. He has extensive evaluation experience with the World Bank and MIT’s Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL). Buddy has helped design the World Bank’s evaluation strategy for local governance strengthening programmes across India. He has also coordinated randomised controlled trials in health and governance with JPAL in India, and is the co-author of a Harvard Business School case study on translating research findings into policy in Kenya. Buddy holds an AB in Economics from Harvard University; an MD with special distinction in global health policy from Albert Einstein College of Medicine; and an MPA in International Development (MPA/ID) from Harvard Kennedy School.