Kudzai Takavarasha is a native of Zimbabwe. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with degrees in Chemical Engineering and Economics. After a stint in management consulting and software development, he joined the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab shortly after it was founded, and helped develop its policy briefcase and bulletin series as well as the material for its executive education course which covers the same ground as Running Randomized Evaluations. He left J-PAL in 2012 after completing Running Randomized Evaluations, to focus on his writing. He currently lives in Palo Alto, California with his wife and daughter.