Jasmin Higo is a German Master of Public Administration student at Cornell University where she specializes in Economic and Financial Policy. She has worked at the World Bank in the fields of food security, and digital agriculture, and co-authored a study on agri-food innovations for the UN agency Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). As a Research Assistant at Harvard University’s Growth Lab she examined growth opportunities and constraints of African countries. As a consultant for an elected New York State Assembly member, she used geospatial and census data to conduct research on racial health disparities. As a Research Assistant at Cornell University, she currently works on two USAID-funded food security and resilience monitoring studies in Ethiopia and Malawi. Prior to Cornell, Jasmin worked for a Boston-based NGO and the technology company Siemens in the fields of Sustainability, Finance, and Mergers and Acquisition. Jasmin Higo earned a BA in Business Administration and speaks Arabic, German, English, French, and Spanish. Her research interests lie in development, agricultural, and labor economics.