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Dr Jacob Rinck commenced his appointment as Postdoctoral Fellow with the Inter-Asia Engagements Cluster on 1 August 2023. 

He graduated from Yale University with a PhD in Anthropology. He is an anthropologist studying narratives about global inequality through the lens of migration, the national economy form and development economics as storytelling. Before joining ARI, he was a Visiting Scholar at the GWU Department of Anthropology, a lecturer at the GWU Elliott School, and worked as a consultant for the World Bank. At ARI, he will be working on a book manuscript and articles based on his dissertation on transnational migration, agrarian change, and histories of developmental thought in Nepal, and will pursue new research on the emergence of new transnational publics around a 2018 bilateral labour agreement between Nepal and Malaysia.