Imran Rasul is a Professor of Economics at the University College London (UCL), Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and co-director, James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy at UCL Economics. He is the Research Programme Director, Firms Portfolio, at International Growth Centre (IGC).