Lorenzo Casaburi is the UBS Foundation Associate Professor of Development Economics (with tenure) in the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich. His research focuses on economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa, with particular emphasis on agricultural finance, competition, and land markets His work has been supported by several funders, including the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant 2019 and ERC Consolidator Grant 2025), the Swiss National Science Foundation, USAID, and DFID. Lorenzo serves as an Associate Editor for Econometrica and The Economic Journal and is a member of the BREAD Board of Directors. He is also a Research Fellow at BREAD, CEPR, IGC, IPA, and J-PAL. He received his B.A. from the University of Bologna and his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. Before joining the University of Zurich, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR).