Michael Kremer

Michael Kremer is the Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. His research focuses on education, health, water, and agriculture in developing countries. He helped develop the advance market commitment (AMC) for vaccines to stimulate private investment in vaccine research and the distribution of vaccines for diseases in the developing world. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. He has been named as one of Scientific American’s 50 researchers of the year, and has won several awards for his work on health economics, agricultural economics, and on Latin America.