Bio

Jonathan Morduch is a professor of public policy and economics at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. He is the executive director of the NYU Financial Access Initiative. Morduch’s research focuses on global poverty and finance. Morduch is co-author of The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty (2017); Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day (2009); The Economics of Microfinance (2010); and Economics (2016), an introductory economics text. He has taught on the economics faculty at Harvard, and has held visiting positions at Stanford, Princeton, Hitotsubashi, and the University of Tokyo. Morduch received a BA from Brown and a PhD in Economics from Harvard. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Brussels in 2008 for his work on microfinance.