Michael Samson is the Research Director of the Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI), a global research institute in Cape Town, South Africa.
Dr. Michael Samson is the Director of Research of the Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI), a global institution based in Cape Town, South Africa. His 30 years of experience working in social protection and social policy involves specialization in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating social policies, systems and programmes. Dr. Samson has worked across the world, including in Cabo Verde, Rwanda, Uganda, Malawi, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mexico, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Viet Nam, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
In addition to his work with the Economic Policy Research Institute, Dr. Samson has published extensively, and teaches courses at the Institute of Development Studies, Maastricht University, the University of Mauritius and the Williams College Center for Development Economics in the United States. Dr. Samson has a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.