Bansi Malde is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Economics at the University of Kent, UK and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, UK. She is also a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization. Her research focuses on topics related to development economics, health economics and the economics of social networks. Her work has been published in The Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Behavior and Organization and Economic Development and Cultural Change, She received her PhD from University College London.