Sarah Baird is a Professor of Global Health and Economics in the Department of Global Health at George Washington University. Prof. Baird is a development economist whose research focuses on the microeconomics of health and education in low- and middle-income countries with an emphasis on gender and youth. She served as co-chair of the second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing. She also serves as the quantitative lead for the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) study, the largest global study on adolescence and is on the research team for the Women’s Health and Wellbeing Exemplars In Global Health study. Prof. Baird’s work has been published in leading academic journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics and The Lancet, and has been featured in media outlets such as The New York Times and The Economist. Baird’s current work investigates different policy approaches to improve outcomes for adolescents ranging from cash transfers, to Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy, to social norms change. She received her PhD from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley in 2007.