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Vegard Iversen is a Professor in Development Economics and the Head of the Livelihoods and Institutions Department at the Natural Resources Institute of the University of Greenwich. He is also a non-resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, and a Senior Research Fellow at the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie). He is an applied microeconomist with a PhD from University of Cambridge.

Vegard joined NRI in September 2018 after 12 years living and working in India, where he was a Professor (Economics Area) at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Between 2000 and 2006, he was a tenured faculty member at the School of Development Studies (now International Development) at University of East Anglia, UK. From 2007 to 2011, he was a visiting faculty at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. While at ISI, He worked on MNREGA in Andhra Pradesh, migration, social networks and labour markets in western Uttar Pradesh and changes in caste-based inequalities in rural India. He has also worked on social audits and on the colonial origins of agricultural development in India: recent research has focused on social mobility and on governance, politician behaviour and the workings of democracy and political institutions.