Francis Annan (PhD, Columbia, 2018) is an assistant professor of economics at ARE. Francis' research centers on development economics and microeconomic issues, with a focus on digital financial markets, at-scale government programs, insurance markets, and firms in sub-Saharan Africa and the United States.

Professor Annan is a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER, an Affiliated Professor at BREAD, J-PAL, and CEGA, the Scientific Lead and Co-Chair of the Retail Finance Distribution (ReFinD) Research Initiative at ISSER, and a Fellow at the Center for Development Economics and Policy (CDEP) and the Center for Environmental Economics and Policy (CEEP). Prior to UC Berkeley, Francis was an Assistant Professor of Economics, Risk, and Insurance at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.