I am interested in the type of interventions and ideas that could improve the lives of millions of people, particularly at the bottom of the pyramid. I am convinced that economic growth is the way to do this, and that growth diagnostics is the best way to figure out why it isn't happening in a particular place.

As a result, I have found that the ideal interventions are often through policy, so I spend a lot of my effort on policy advisory at the Harvard Growth Lab. Implementing policy, however, requires many stars to align — you sometimes need to get lucky with a window for change opening up. The private sector, on the other hand, is a more permissionless arena of action. Build the right products and organizations and you can create a self-sustaining engine for impact, which is why I also lead technology at Beaj. In this way, I think of myself as a full stack problem solver — thinking about big questions and trying to address them with whatever means is practical.