Bradley Wong

Dr. Brad Wong is a global expert in cost-benefit / social return-on-investment analysis of international development projects. His expertise is in cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis within international development. He has published numerous technical reports and peer-reviewed economic evaluations across a variety of sectors including agriculture, education, gender, nutrition, water and sanitation, poverty, trade, and global health. He has also developed approaches and guidance documents for conducting economic evaluation and cross-sectoral priority setting exercises.

Dr. Brad holds a PhD in Economics and Finance from the University of Sydney.

He is the Founder and President of Mettalytics (a consultancy), a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development, an Affiliated Researcher at the University of Bergen's Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting, Chief Economist of the Seva Foundation and part of the presenting faculty on Harvard’s executive education course, Valuing Life and Health. He is currently the co-lead Editor on Volume 3 of the Disease Control Priorities 4 focusing on interventions outside the healthcare system that generate substantial health and wellbeing benefits.

He has advised and collaborated with the Government of Timor-Leste, the Malawian National Planning Commission, the Ghanaian National Development Planning Commission, the Government of Haiti, the African Academy of Sciences, the UN in Bangladesh, the Government of India’s think tank, NITI Aayog among others. His work has been featured in media such as The Economist, LA Times, The Hindu, The South China Morning Post, and Wall St Journal.

The work he has been a part of has had a demonstrable impact on policy, for example in Haiti, where the results from Copenhagen Consensus research compelled the President to implement wheat flour fortification, affecting hundreds of thousands of Haitians and generating substantial social impact.

From 2020-2023 he was a board member of the Society for Benefit Cost Analysis, which publishes the Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis. He is also the Section Editor on a chapter in Oxford University Press’s Encyclopedia on Water, Sanitation and Global Health, focusing on the economics of water and sanitation investments in low and middle income countries. He co-authored the Reference Case Guidelines for Benefit-Cost Analysis in Global Health and Development that aims to set standards for the estimation of social return on investment in international development.