I am an Economist at the World Bank's Africa Gender Innovation Lab, where I lead large-scale studies on women's economic empowerment and provide support to project teams and policy makers to bolster the uptake of effective policies and interventions. I have a broad research agenda focusing on entrepreneurship (including training and credit constraints, and soft-skills development), the school-to-work transition, and land rights.
Before joining the World Bank, I was a development economist at the American Institutes for Research. I received my PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland.
You can reach me by email at abrudevoldnewman (at) worldbank.org