Mirwais Parsa

Mirwais Parsa is a research scholar at the Center for Governance and Markets, supported by the Pittsburgh Network for Threatened Scholars (PiNTS). He is an economist holding a PhD from South Asian University. His research interests lie at the intersection of Macroeconomics, Institutions, and Political Economy. Mr. Parsa has served as a lecturer of Economics at Dunya University, Kabul, Afghanistan.

In addition to his academic experience, Mr. Parsa served as an advisor to the Afghanistan Ministry of Finance. In this capacity, he drafted the second document of Afghanistan National Peace and Development Framework (ANPDF-II) and assisted with the COVID-19 fiscal stimulus and response program in Afghanistan. He has also worked as the country author for the South Asian Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE), where he reported on the socio-economic aspects of Afghanistan, including poverty, inequality, and human migration.