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, he 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 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. Additionally, Shahrukh frequently contributes opinion pieces on economic policy to various newspapers and blogs, with a particular but not exclusive focus on Pakistan. 

Shahrukh is a citizen of Pakistan and resides mainly in London presently. He studied at the University of London before receiving a master’s degree from the London School of Economics. He tweets @ShahrukWani and can be emailed at s.rukh@lse.ac.uk.

Webpages: Profile on IGC | Profile on Oxford