Tara Chiu

Tara Chiu is an internationally recognized expert on research focused on risk, index insurance, poverty, food security, improved technology adoption and resilience. She is associate director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk & Resilience at UC Davis and is also program manager for the Quality Index Insurance Certification (QUIIC) initiative supported by USAID. She conducts high-impact outreach to integrate research findings for more effective, evidence-based public policy and development programming. She regularly consults on index insurance implementation and scaling for national governments and NGOs. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in The Gambia and holds a B.A. in Political Science from American University and a Master of Public Policy from Duke University.