Bilal Moin

Hello! Welcome to a portfolio of things I've made and done. They'll probably come back to haunt me in a few years.

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Here's a little bit about myself. By day, I'm a researcher and MPhil Candidate in Economics at Oxford University. I graduated from Yale in 2024, where I served as the founding President of the Salus Populi Foundation. My research is centred at the intersection of development and political economics, with a focus on the role of historic institutions, structural change, and complex societal systems. Born and raised in Mumbai, I'm also fascinated by South Asia's role in the emerging world order. My research has been recognized with the Amartya Sen Prize, the runner-up International Economic Association Stiglitz Prize, and the Yale Rustgi, Dahl, and Leitner Fellowships.

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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. My writing has appeared in Rattle, Indian Literature, Himal Southasian, Muse India, Yale Daily News, Yale Globalist, the Bangalore Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, Poetic Bond, and Hippopotamus. My debut collection of poetry was published in 2018.

 

I collate a newsletter titled Ink-uilab and capture monochrome photographs. I enjoy espressos, used bookstores, and the films of Satyajit Ray. 

 

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