Ruth Hill is Chief Economist at the Centre for Disaster Protection, where she leads the Centre's work on improving evidence on how best to respond to disasters, and on the impact of better disaster protection on household welfare. She is on external service from the World Bank, where she is a Lead Economist in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice. Ruth has published in the Journal of Development Economics, World Bank Economic Review, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Experimental Economics, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and World Development. She has a doctorate in economics from the University of Oxford.