Ammar A. Malik

Ammar A. Malik is the Director of EPoD Research, where he leads research-policy engagements and oversees EPoD’s labor market and education research portfolios in the Middle East. He works to identify and support opportunities for data and economic analysis, to create policies that support social and economic development, particularly for underrepresented groups.

Previously, Ammar Malik was a Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute’s Center on International Development and Governance, where he led the research on global cities, to explore the causes and consequences of urbanization, the impact of spatial urban forms and urban transport policy on economic performance, the theory and evaluation of urban resilience, and the governance of public service delivery. He has used agent-based modeling to undertake policy simulations on Pakistan’s cities. Dr. Malik has published several peer reviewed articles, including in Environmental Modeling and Software, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, South Asia Economic Journal, Global Policy and Science and Public Policy etc.

He has also previously been a consultant to the National Disaster Management Authority Pakistan, World Bank, OECD, UNESCO, Oxfam International and the International Food Policy Research Institute. For his work on the economic costs of sexual harassment in urban transit systems using smartphone technology, the World Bank and Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) awarded his team the Development Marketplace Award 2017 for innovations in preventing Gender-Based Violence.

Dr. Ammar holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from George Mason University, MA in Public Affairs from Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) Paris, MA in Public Policy from the National University of Singapore, and BA in Economics and Mathematics from the Lahore University of Management Sciences.