Introducing our newly hired researchers: part 1 of 3 Over the past few years, two research departments in the Development Economics Vice Presidency (DECVP), namely the Development Research Group (DRG) and the Development Impact Evaluation unit (DIME) have recruited 24 researchers. Many of these junior researchers joined the World Bank during a period, in which they could not physically come to the office and meet with us, schedule coffee and lunch meetings with our operational colleagues, or attend conferences and give seminars in person to broaden their networks. To somewhat ameliorate this issue, we will be running a three-part series to introduce them to our colleagues in the Bank and the rest of the large development community outside of it. We have grouped them by fields and will introduce eight of them each day between today and Thursday. We hope that these short blurbs will pique the interest of our WB colleagues to reach out to these junior researchers to include them in their important work. Equally, we hope that seminar organizers at academic institutions and other development organizations will invite them for talks – virtual for now and, hopefully, in person soon.