For most of us academics, our greatest long-term impact will most likely come through teaching and advising talented undergraduate and graduate students. I therefore put a premium on advising and teaching, at both graduate and undergraduate levels. At the graduate level, I teach a Ph.D. course on the Microeconomics of International Development and run a year-round Graduate Research Seminar in Development Microeconomics. Several of my ~60 graduate advisees have won major thesis research awards. At undergraduate level, I teach the Dyson School's only Writing in the Majors course, AEM 2000: Contemporary Controversies in the Global Economy, which exposes undergraduates to cutting edge, contentious issues in economics, challenging them to think about the normative dimensions of complex economic issues and how best to communicate their own views on these matters. This course, like the rest of my teaching, outreach and research program, reflects my enthusiasm for the role thoughtful people can play in reducing the unnecessary human suffering that continues to plague a world of plenty. Cornell students have the capacity to change their world for the better; I have the fortunate opportunity to, in some small measure, inform and encourage them in that direction.