Rebecca Shah is an analyst of the relationship between religion and economics and an expert on the statistical assessment of development projects in the global South. She is a Fellow with the Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life and has a BSc in Economics and Economic History and a MSc in Statistical Demography, both from the London School of Economics. She has served as a research analyst for the World Bank's Human Development Network; for the Ethnic Health Unit of the British National Health Service; and for Harvard's Center for Population and Development.

Rebecca has a special interest in spiritual capital and its role in socio-economic behaviour. As well as being the Research Associate of Belief in Enterprise, she is the Principal Investigator for a major project funded by the Templeton Foundation to study the role of tithing, thrift and savings amongst the enterprising poor in Bangalore, India. Her recent publications include a study of the economic impact of Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism in low-income communities in emerging economies.