Shahrukh Wani - Personal Website

Shahrukh Wani is an economist at the International Growth Centre (IGC) based at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.

In this role, Shahrukh supports evidence-based policy reforms in Africa and South Asia with a focus on public finance and urban governance. His work includes collaborations with policymakers in Afghanistan, Uganda, Pakistan, and Zambia on areas such as land and property taxation, fiscal and administrative decentralisation, and urban infrastructure provision. 

Before joining the IGC, Shahrukh conducted economic analyses for ActionAid on Pakistan’s tax system, supported a statistical poverty measurement tool at the Grameen Foundation and the Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), and helped set up an accelerator program for social enterprises in Islamabad.

Shahrukh also frequently contributes opinion pieces on economic policy to various newspapers and blogs, with a focus on urbanisation in developing countries and public policy in Pakistan. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Dawn, The Conversation, Oxford Government Review, among others. He has also been cited by BBC, Dawn, Arab News, and Gulf News.

Shahrukh was born and raised in Rawalpindi and is a citizen of Pakistan. He resides mainly in London presently. He studied at the University of London and the London School of Economics (LSE).

He tweets @ShahrukWani and can be emailed at s.rukh@lse.ac.uk.

Webpages: Profile on IGC | Profile on Oxford 

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with Paul Collier and Vicky Delbridge. June 23rd, 2020.

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