Economist, Social-Economic Impact

The Economics Department of AIIB has three key responsibilities: (a) strengthening the development of projects and policy-based lending in the Bank, (b) developing the Bank's thought leadership on infrastructure and development finance, and (c) building the Bank's external practice ecosystem to complement internal capacity to support the Bank's operations.

The department leads the Bank's economic analysis, providing thought leadership through its annual flagship publication, Asian Infrastructure Finance, and a broad range of applied research.

The Economics Department is looking to hire an Economist (Social Impact) to support AIIB's operations and thought leadership on socioeconomic issues. The Economist will focus on various aspects of social and inclusive development, including health, poverty, inequality, labor markets, social protection, and gender. Successful candidates will conduct research on the social and inclusive-development aspects of infrastructure development and integrate these dimensions into the operational work of the AIIB, including both project lending and policy-based finance.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with other departments in the Bank to integrate social and inclusive dimensions as well as their intersection with climate change and nature into project design and reform matrices supporting policy-based lending operations.
• Conduct economic analysis on health, poverty, inequality, labor markets, social protection, and gender in order to provide inputs about the appraisal, monitoring, and impact assessment of Bank-financed projects and policy loans.
• Collaborate with other departments to further AIIB's gender and economic inclusion agenda, both upstream and downstream.
• Support the Economics Department to advance research and thought leadership on socioeconomic issues and their intersection with climate change and nature, including through flagship reports, policy briefs, and technical reports.
• Support the Head of Ecosystem on outreach, events, stakeholder engagements, and ad-hoc matters to build up the external research ecosystem.
• Support the Chief Economist on D&I matters, economic inclusion, and gender economics. This includes research work as well as stakeholder engagements.
• Represent the Bank in technical discussions and policy forums related to health, poverty, inequality, labor markets, social protection, and gender.