Bilal Moin
Political Economics, Poetics & (occasional) Polemics
Hello! Welcome to a portfolio of things I've made and done. They'll probably come back to haunt me in a few years.
By day, I'm an economist and PhD candidate at MIT. I am a member of the System Dynamics Group at MIT Sloan, following research stints at the World Bank, CEGIS India, and Yale’s Economic Growth Center. My research examines complex social systems writ large, with particular interests in the political economy of development, institutional change, and societal and technological transformation.
I graduated with an M.Phil in Economics from Oxford in 2026 and a B.A. from Yale in 2024. My research has been recognised with the Amartya Sen Prize, the runner-up International Economic Association Stiglitz Prize, and the Yale Rustgi, Dahl, and Leitner Fellowships. Born and raised in Mumbai, I'm fascinated by South Asia's role in the emerging world order.
By night, I'm a writer, poet, and photographer. Most recently, I edited The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City (2025), a vibrant anthology of 375 poems—translated from over 20 languages and set in 37 cities—spanning a millennium and a half of Indian urban poetry. I was a two-time finalist for Oxford’s Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize, and my writing has appeared in Rattle, Indian Literature, Bombay Lit Mag, Oxford Isis, Himal Southasian, Yale Daily News, and the Bangalore Review, amongst others. My debut collection of poetry was published in 2018.
I publish a newsletter titled Ink-uilab and capture monochrome photographs. I enjoy espressos, debating, used bookstores, and the films of Satyajit Ray.
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