Bahman Kashi is a lecturer at Queen’s University and the founder of Limestone Analytics. Before Limestone, he worked for eight years as a consultant in the areas of public investment management, economic analysis of development projects, and evaluation of social programs. He has worked on capacity building and technical advisory projects for USAID, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, African Development Bank, and the Government of Canada. In 2016, he led a team of researchers in the development of a manual on the "integration of gender impacts into cost-benefit analysis" for the USAID. Bahman holds a master's degree in information systems and a Ph.D. in economics from Eastern Mediterranean University.