FORWARD DEPLOYED ECONOMISTS™
ECONOMICS, DEPLOYED.
Economists at the point of decision.
THE WORLD DOESN’T NEED MORE ECONOMIC REPORTS.
It needs economists where decisions are made.
MEET THE FORWARD DEPLOYED ECONOMIST.
Economics often stops at analysis. A question is asked. A study is conducted. A report is delivered. Policy Implications.
A Forward Deployed Economist goes further.
Forward Deployed Economists work directly with organizations to understand the problem, interrogate the data, identify causal relationships, design interventions, and measure what happens next.
The objective is not to just explain the economy or your economics.
It’s to help organizations change outcomes.
FROM ANALYSIS TO OUTCOMES.
01 — UNDERSTAND
Get close to the organization, its people, its data, and the decision that actually matters.
02 — MEASURE
Use economic theory, data, and causal inference to determine what is really happening.
03 — ACT
Translate evidence into interventions, strategy, allocation, experimentation, and execution.
04 — LEARN
Measure the result. Feed what we learn back into the organization. Improve. Repeat.
DEPLOY WHERE THE STAKES ARE HIGH.
Forward Deployed Economics can work wherever economic decisions have measurable consequences.
GROWTH & INVESTMENT
Determine which investments, markets, and strategies actually generate additional growth.
PRICING & MARKETS
Understand demand, incentives, market responses, and the consequences of changing prices.
CREDIT & FINANCE
Measure the real economic effects of lending, financial products, and capital allocation.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
Evaluate industrial programs, productive capacity, employment, investment, and spillovers.
POLICY MAKING
Move from policy evaluation toward continuous evidence, adaptation, and measurable outcomes.
ORGANIZATION PRODUCTIVITY
Identify the interventions that actually improve productivity, performance, and resource allocation.
DEPLOYMENT × ECONOMICS
THE ECONOMIST IS FORWARD DEPLOYED.
THE ANALYTICAL INFRASTRUCTURE IS TOO.
CAUSAL INFERENCE
Move beyond correlation to estimate what actually changes outcomes using rigorous empirical methods.
SCALE-UP
Accelerate economic research, data interrogation, simulation, analysis, and decision support.
MONITORING
Turn one-off analysis into living systems that continuously measure economic outcomes.
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DON’T JUST TELL US WHAT HAPPENED.
HELP US CHANGE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.
PUT AN ECONOMIST WHERE IT MATTERS.
Tell us about the economic decision, policy, market, or organizational problem you want to solve.