The economist joins the university from Amazon Web Services where he was director of economics.
Achyuta Adhvaryu starts work as director of the center on Jan. 1 next year.
Recipients of the funding include The American University in Cairo, Wits University in South Africa, Universidad de los Andes and El Colegio de México.
He takes up the post in January next year.
The University of Essex professor passed away peacefully on Oct. 14.
S Anukriti and Sandra Rozo are now senior economists within the institution’s development research group.
While at the agency he helped to lead major enforcement actions across antitrust, consumer protection, data security and privacy.
Tara Sinclair’s research focuses on modeling and forecasting macroeconomics and labor market fluctuations.
They join the economic experts working group, which provides advice to agency staff.
Per Strömberg says the economists’ theories remain as relevant to fintech as they did to traditional banking in the 1980s.