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Recipient Of The 2015 Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award, Gabriel Demombynes '89
Recipient Of The 2015 Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award, Gabriel Demombynes '89
Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award
As an economist at the World Bank, Dr. Gabriel Demombynes works on issues of poverty and inequality in developing countries. He is best known for his work arguing for the greater use of the scientific method in evaluating international development programs. Together with co-author Michael A. Clemens, he published a groundbreaking critique of the Millennium Villages Project, a high-profile rural development project implemented in several communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Demombynes holds both a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a BA from the Plan II Liberal Arts Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin, as well …