Saugato Datta is a Managing Director at ideas42, where he oversees the bulk of the organization's work in low- and middle-income countries in Africa, Asia, and South America. He works with partners in government, NGOs, and firms focused on low-income populations to design, test, and scale socially beneficial applications of behavioral economics. His current work spans public health, violence reduction, financial inclusion, resource conservation, agriculture, the design of transfer programs, and helping cities use behavioral science to improve urban governance and sustainability. In the past, he has been an economics correspondent for The Economist in London and a researcher at the World Bank in Washington, DC. Dr. Datta has published extensively in applied development and behavioral economics, and his work has been featured in outlets such as The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Indian Express. He holds a B.A. from the University of Delhi, an M.A. from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.