Probably Good is hosting a virtual conversation and Q&A with Leah Rosenzweig, Director of the Market Shaping Accelerator and Lead Researcher at the Development Innovation Lab at University of Chicago. This event is part of a series of “career conversations” designed to give our readers and advisees a chance to interact with and learn from experts across high impact career paths. 

Event Details:

• Topic: Opportunities for Market Shaping in Climate Change and Biosecurity
• Date & Time: 6 March, 12 pm ET 
• Guest Speaker: Leah Rosenzweig, Development Innovation Lab

About the webinar 

Crucial technologies can often fail to be developed due to the mismatch between their social value and market demand. Market shaping tools, like advanced market commitments, address this gap by encouraging the private sector to innovate, with government support minimizing financial risks. Examples include the development of vaccines for pneumococcal disease and COVID-19.

Leah Rosenzweig runs the Market Shaping Accelerator, which is dedicated to finding high-value applications of market shaping within climate change and biosecurity. Leah will talk about research directions she’s excited about, the challenges of coordinating across government and the private sector, and how people with different skills can contribute to this effort. 

We will also be hosting a live Q&A session where participants can ask Leah questions about career paths and opportunities in this domain. 

Leah’s Biography 

Leah Rosenzweig is the Director of the Market Shaping Accelerator at the University of Chicago, a lead researcher at UChicago’s Development Innovation Lab, and a research affiliate at MIT GOV/LAB and the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics. Before her tenure at UChicago, Rosenzweig was a fellow at Stanford University—jointly in the Golub Capital Social Impact Lab at the Graduate School of Business and the Center on Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law—and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Prior to her graduate studies, she worked as a consultant for the Nigerian Government on development policy.