Gday! My name is Nawaaz, and I'm a research fellow in the Impact Labs, at Monash University.  I received my PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and will be on the job market in 2025/2026. You can find my vitae here.

I research in economic theory, specifically information acquisition, mechanism design, and game theory. My recent work focuses on the use of costly inspection to acquire information through screening and discovery. You can read more about it here.

My postdoc is supervised by Simon Wilkie, Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics and Head of Monash Business School, and my academic advisors are:


You can reach me at nawaaz.khalfan@monash.edu.