Global Executive Director, J-PAL
Iqbal Dhaliwal is the global executive director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), the anti-poverty center at MIT’s economics department. He leads the development of J-PAL’s strategic vision and worldwide operations in research, policy outreach, and training in over a dozen countries and across multiple sectors including health, education, climate change, and labor. He co-directs the AI for Social Good Initiative which identifies the most promising avenues for applying and evaluating AI in social programs.
Dhaliwal is a board member of social enterprises Noora Health and Rocket Learning and a member of Unilever’s Sustainability Advisory Council. Before joining J-PAL in 2009, he worked in the private sector in strategic and economic consulting. Earlier, as a member of the Indian Administrative Service, he worked in the field implementing development programs and in the secretariat formulating policy.