Erwin Knippenberg

Degree Ph.D, Applied Economics
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Personal Website
ek598@cornell.edu
erwinknippenberg.com

Erwin Knippenberg is a PhD Candidate at Cornell University, writing his dissertation on resilience measurement in the context of climate change. He works on applying a resilience paradigm to impact evaluation by combining on the ground and remote-sensing data. He has ongoing projects in Ethiopia, Malawi, Madagascar and Nepal.

Prior to Cornell, Erwin was an ODI Fellow at the Liberian Ministry of Finance. He helped set up the development coordination unit, worked closely with donors on aligning projects with national priorities, and provided technical support to Liberia’s statistical agency. As a member of the UK based Entrepreneur First accelerator, he helped finance GrainCoast, a Liberian organic agriculture Co-operative.

Erwin has a MSC in Economics for Development from Oxford (’12) and a joint BS/MA from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (’11).


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Erwin Knippenberg