Stefan Leeffers is a consultant within the World Bank’s Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice and a PhD candidate in Economics at Nova School of Business and Economics. Previously, he worked as a consultant in the Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) unit at the World Bank. His topics of interest are development and behavioral economics, and his research has been focusing on political economy related questions in education and disaster risk management. Stefan holds two MSc degrees in Economics from Nova SBE and INSPER and a BSc in Economics from Tilburg University. For more information, visit his website.