On Thursday Dr Natalie Quinn visited the NCS. Dr Quinn teaches Microeconomics, Quantitative Economics and Economics of Developing Countries at St John’s College in the University of Oxford. She does research on theoretical and applied aspects of the evaluation of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries using data from household surveys.  She is also interested in public service delivery in low-income countries and recently spent two years working for Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health and Sanitation; she has also worked in Namibia, Tanzania and Armenia. During her visit to the NCS Dr Quinn attended several lessons where she shared with the students some of her own experiences as a student, an academic and as an economist.