Congo

Author of the book "Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa" and the blog "Congo Siasa." Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.

I am an economist interested in development economics, political economy, and economic history. I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, and a postdoctoral scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (spring and fall 2022). I am a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and an affiliate of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD). I am from San José, Costa Rica. I received my Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 2018. I graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Economics in 2010 and an M.S. in Statistics in 2011.

Sara Lowes is a postdoctoral fellow at the King Center and will join the University of California San Diego (UCSD) economics department as an assistant professor in summer 2020.