Dilip Ratha's  TED talk on remittances, with almost 1.5 million views, has inspired many fintech start-ups. He is the Founder of KNOMAD, the Migrating out of Poverty Research Program Consortium, and the African Institute of Remittances. Considered a global expert on remittances and innovative financing, he has published pioneering papers on migration, diaspora bonds, future-flow securitization, predicting sovereign ratings, and South-South FDI. In 2016 he was the inaugural senior visiting fellow at Harvard South Asia Institute and during 2011-2013, a visiting professor of economics at the University of Sussex. Prior to joining the World Bank, Dilip was an Asia Regional Economist at Credit Agricole Indosuez W.I. Carr Securities (Hong Kong and Singapore). Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor (macroeconomics) at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

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