Speaker Profile

Kyle Murphy is a Director at the University of Chicago's Development Innovation Lab where he leads research work on the Innovation Commission for Agriculture, Food Security, and Climate Change. Kyle previously headed funding initiatives, cost effectiveness analysis and agriculture sector work at J-PAL as the Initiatives Lead. Kyle holds a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy and served as an agricultural extensionist and volunteer coordinator for three years with the United States Peace Corps in Nicaragua.