Harrison Diamond Pollock
MPA2
E-mail:
HarrisonDiamond Pollock@example.com
IV - Economics and Public Policy
McGill University, 2013
Economics/Political Science, B.A.
“The incredibly diverse and talented group of people I knew I’d get to learn from was the biggest draw of the Woodrow Wilson School — and I have not been disappointed! As Peru’s President resigned, our classmates from Lima were giving us the inside scoop. When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Rahul Gandhi came to campus, we did not just hear from them but also from the sometimes charged opinions of our Indian and Liberian classmates. The School is an environment of learning, only a small part of which happens from our professors.” (Hometown: Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Biography
Harrison was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Before coming to Princeton, he worked for five years in Uganda, Kenya, and the U.S. with the NGO Innovations for Poverty Action. Harrison’s work spanned from helping to promote open data and research transparency to managing evaluations of election debates, anti-vote buying campaigns and vaccination tracking apps. He also interned with GiveDirectly in Kenya and this past summer with Engineers without Borders Canada in Côte d'Ivoire, helping to map the impact investment ecosystem in the country. After graduating from WWS, Harrison hopes to work to help create a culture of evidence-based policymaking across the world.