Dr. Tristan Reed is an economist in the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank. He joined the World Bank Group at the International Finance Corporation, after starting his career as a consultant with McKinsey and Company in their Lagos, Nigeria office. He has worked on a number of flagship analytic reports for the Bank, and supported policy dialogue related to infrastructure lending operations in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. His research focuses on the industrial organization and political economy of low and lower-middle income countries, and has been supported by the International Growth Centre (IGC) and the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER). Tristan holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University and a BA summa cum laude in economics from UCLA.