Tristan Reed is Economist in the Trade and International Integration unit of the Development Economics Research Group (DECRG) of the World Bank. His research is in applied microeconomics, on topics in industrial organization and political economy, with a focus on low and lower-middle income countries. Tristan joined the World Bank Group at the International Finance Corporation, after working as a consultant with McKinsey and Company in their Lagos, Nigeria office.
Tristan's work has been supported by the International Growth Centre (IGC) and the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER), and his economic analysis has supported policy dialogue related to infrastructure lending operations in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. He earned a BA in economics from UCLA, and a PhD in economics from Harvard University.
