Team NADEL-ETH Switzerland
NADEL Center for Development and Cooperation of ETH Zurich
The NADEL Center for Development and Cooperation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich combines empirical research in social sciences with an interdisciplinary teaching program and various policy outreach activities to contribute to effective and sustainable development policies. NADELS's objective is to link theory and practice of development cooperation in its research and teaching activities. To this end, NADEL regularly consults governmental and non-governmental development organizations. The knowledge generated within these projects directly feeds into NADEL’s research and teaching.
Prof. Dr. Isabel Günther
Principal Investigator for NADEL-ETH Zurich
Director NADEL Center for
Development and Cooperation
Chair of Development Economics
Department of Humanities,
Social and Political Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
Isabel Günther has been Professor of Development Economics and Director of NADEL since July 2014. She has previously been an Assistant Professor of Development Economics at ETH Zürich and at the New School for Social Sciences, New York, as well as a research associate at the University of Göttingen and at the Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge.
Her main research interest is in empirical microeconomics with a particular focus on measurement of poverty and inequality, population and urban economics, technologies and policies for poverty reduction, and effectiveness of development aid. Isabel Günther has carried out most of her research in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa.
MA Bartlomiej Kudrzycki
Doctoral Student under the Project
NADEL Center for
Development and Cooperation
Department of Humanities,
Social and Political Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
Bart has been a PhD student at the Center for Development and Cooperation (NADEL) at the ETH Zürich since September 2017. He is conducting research on youth labor markets, focusing on using mobile phone surveys to study the informal economy. He holds an MA in economics from the University of Zürich and a BA in physics from Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to his PhD, Bart worked at NADEL as a research assistant on a study of evidence use at development aid agencies.