Christopher Woodruff

Christopher Woodruff is Professor of Development Economics, University of Oxford. He is a Non-Executive Director of British International Investment, where he chairs the Devlopment Impact Committiee. He is also the Scientific Coordinator for the FCDO–Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) joint research venture on Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries (PEDL) and a member of the Steering Committee of the International Growth Centre. In addition to his position at Oxford, he is a Research Fellow at the CEPR, and a Senior Fellow of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD). Chris’s research is widely published in leading academic journals and focuses on enterprises in low-income countries, with noted work on returns to capital investments in microenterprises and the effect of formal registration on enterprise performance. He is a pioneer in the use of field experiments in firms.