Ibrahim Kasirye is the Director Research at the Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), Uganda. He is a development economist specializing in poverty analysis, socio protection, monitoring and evaluation, and quantitative survey analysis. A key area of focus is empirical analysis of poverty and its impacts on access to health, agriculture, employment and education services. He has extensive experience in micro analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and national household surveys. He has researched and published in the areas of gender, health, education, food security, child rights, youth and socioeconomic aspects of HIV/AIDS. Some of his past research has been presented at the annual Centre for Study of African Economics (CSAE) conference at the University of Oxford and UN-WIDER Institute of Development Economic Research (UN-WIDER) in Helsinki, Finland. Ibrahim is also a recipient of a number of grants from the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). In 2012, he was voted the best emerging education research by the African Development Bank. Ibrahim joined EPRC under the Young Professional (YP) programme in 2002 and has worked at EPRC in various capacities including holding positions of Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow and Principle Research Fellow. He holds a PhD in Development Economics from the University of Manchester, a Masters of Arts from the University of Dar es salaam and Bachelor of Science in Economics and Statistics from Makerere University.