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Research Leader, RAND Corporation
Mehdi Shiva is a research leader at the RAND Corporation. He is an experienced economist and works primarily for RAND Europe. Prior to joining RAND, Shiva led the economics research and policy agenda at Government Outcomes Lab, a research program within the Blavatnik School of Government (BSG) at the University of Oxford. During his time at BSG, Shiva worked on a diverse range of research, teaching, and advisory projects around public/social/health policy, applied economics/econometrics, and evaluation. Before that, Shiva worked as a health economist at the University of Dundee/Ninewells Hospital and as a research director for an entrepreneurial company in collaboration with the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST). Shiva has also done some fellowship and consultancy work in the international development sector with NGOs.
Shiva holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Dundee, a M.Sc. in empirical and theoretical economics from the Paris School of Economics, a M.Sc. in models and methods of quantitive economics from the University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne, and a B.Sc. in economics from the University of Tehran.
