Franklin Maduko is a research fellow at Central European University and a consultant in the Firms, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation unit of the Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice at the World Bank Group. His research interests border on measuring and identifying the drivers of firm-level efficiency, and the impact of trade, FDI and intellectual property reforms on the domestic economy. At the World Bank, he works mainly on the implementation and analysis of the Business Pulse Surveys that examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the private sector in developing countries. He also works as a consultant in the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice at the World Bank Group, where he leads a technical report on fiscal space analysis for the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) reforms in Armenia. He recently received a PhD in Economics at Central European University and will be joining the Economics Department of the University of Exeter as a Lecturer in Economics in September 2021.