José Francisco Muci

Founding Member

José Francisco is an applied researcher in economic development and public policy at the Center for International Development at Harvard University. Over six years, he has worked on projects in Albania, Jordan, Venezuela, El Salvador, Honduras, Loreto (state in Perú), Namibia, and South Africa with the same goal – to identify and implement public policies to accelerate economic and social development. He enjoys using leveraging the traditional tools of economics and econometrics with the modern tools of Data Science to inform policy design, implementation and decision-making.

José Francisco holds a M.A. in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) from the Harvard Kennedy School and a B.A. in Physics and Philosophy from Brown University. His research interests include public finance, growth policy and economic diversification. He co-taught “Why are countries poor, volatile and unequal?” at the Harvard Kennedy School with Prof. Ricardo Hausmann in 2019 and 2020.