Peter Hickman

Research Fellow

Peter joined Open Philanthropy in July 2024. He works on the Global Health and Wellbeing Cause Prioritization team, focusing on methodological issues relevant to cost-effectiveness estimation. He holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University. His PhD research focused on development and behavioral economics using experiments in Kenya and in partnership with a large tech company. He previously worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research and earned a bachelor’s in applied mathematics from Harvard.