Taimur Shah joined the Growth Lab as a Research Fellow in 2023. 

Before joining the Growth Lab, Taimur founded the Labs team at the Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan, a revenue-generating innovation unit focused on producing software with researchers, development practitioners, social entrepreneurs and the government in order to address development issues in the country. They produced work particularly in the areas of education, health, COVID recovery and food security. 

Prior to his work in Pakistan, Taimur was a Software Architect on the Watson Prototypes and Cognitive Environments teams at IBM in New York City, where he worked on over a dozen projects and products which leveraged Watson's Natural Language abilities in different business verticals. He started and sold his first startup in the product recommendation space while an undergrad at Columbia University, and then served as the VP of Engineering at Parrable.

Taimur holds a bachelors in Computer Science from Columbia Engineering, and a Master in Public Administration in International Development from Harvard Kennedy School.