Dr. Nick Tsivanidis is an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and Department of Economics. He is also a Director of the Cities Research Program at the International Growth Centre. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College before joining UC Berkeley. His research centers on connecting theory with empirics that combine new sources of granular data with natural experiments to learn about the process of urbanization in developing countries. His current projects include examining the impact of mass transit in Bogotá on productivity and inequality, impacts of urban renewal in Mumbai on slums and gentrification, using cellphone data to analyze migration dynamics of refugees in Jordan, and studying the efficiency of informal transit networks in Lagos, Nigeria.