Tamar Zeilberger is an LSE Fellow in Political Science and Public Policy. Her research focuses on comparative authoritarian politics, political economy, and the case of contemporary China. As a methodologist, her primary interests are in game theory and inference from observational data using statistics and machine learning. Her substantive and methodological interests are mutually reinforcing, and motivated by policy-relevant questions in authoritarian settings that cannot be examined with traditional randomized experiments.  

Before arriving at LSE, she received her PhD in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles and an MA in the social sciences from the University of Chicago.