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Tony Addison is a Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen in the Development Economics Research Group. He was a Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER in Helsinki, Finland. He was previously Professor of Development Studies...

Haroon Bhorat is Professor of Economics and Director of the Development Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town. He is one of the most cited South African economists globally, with a total citation estimate of 8,400 and an h-index of 52...

Diogo Britto is an applied economist with interests in gender, development, and political economy. He is Assistant Professor (Rtd-B) of Economics at the University of Milan-Bicocca and UniCredit Foundation Marco Fanno Fellow. He is also a research...

Professor Philippe Burger has been the Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of the Free State since March 2022, and he has held the position of Professor of Economics since 2007. As Professor of Economics...

André Decoster (Belgium, 1958) is full professor at the Faculty of Business and Economics of KU Leuven, where he teaches courses Principles of Economics, Public Finance, and Welfare, Inequality and Poverty. He received his PhD in economics from KU...

Kevin P. Gallagher is a professor of global development policy at Boston University (BU), where he directs the Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center). The GDP Center’s mission is to advance policy-relevant research for financial stability...

Ravi Kanbur researches and teaches in development economics, public economics, and economic theory at Cornell University. He has served on the senior staff of the World Bank including as Chief Economist for Africa. He has also published in leading...

Nagesh Kumar is the Director and Chief Executive of the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID). Before this role, which he assumed in May 2021, Dr. Kumar held senior positions at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for...

Santiago Levy is currently a Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution and member of the board of various development organizations. Before that, he was Vice-president at the Inter-American Development Bank, General Director of Mexico’s Social...

Carol Newman is a professor of economics at the Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin. Her research is in the microeconomics of development with a focus on household and enterprise behaviour. She has published widely in the fields of...

Jukka Pirttilä is a professor of public economics at the University of Helsinki and also works as a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. He has previously worked for the University of Tampere, Labour Institute for Economic Research...

John Rand is a professor of development economics at the University of Copenhagen. His research focus includes: industrial policy and firm dynamics; quantitative impact evaluation of development projects; and macroeconomics of international capital...

Ritva Reinikka, a Finnish national, is Professor of Practice at the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics, based at Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki. She is also a Special Adviser (education) to the European Union Commissioner for...

Nadine Riedel is the Director of the Institute for Public and Regional Economics at the University of Münster in Germany. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 2008 and was a research fellow at the Oxford University Centre for...

Breno Sampaio is Associate Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Pernambuco/UFPE in Brazil. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign/UIUC. His main research interests include labor economics...

Dr Savoia is a Reader in development economics at the University of Manchester's Global Development Institute. His research has looked at the determinants of governance and institutional performance and how they impinge on development outcomes and...

Edson Severnini is an Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University (Heinz College), a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), and a Research Associate at the NBER in the following programs...

Andy Sumner is Professor of International Development at King’s College London and President of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI). He has twenty years’ international research experience using both...

Mark Swilling is Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development in the Centre for Sustainability Transitions (CST) in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Stellenbosch and Co-Director of the CST, and as from September...

Professor Tarp has four decades of experience in academic and applied development economics research and teaching. His field experience covers more than two decades of in-country work in 35 countries across Africa and the developing world more...

Santiago Tobón is a Professor of Economics at Universidad EAFIT in Medellín, Colombia. He received his PhD in Economics from Universidad de los Andes in 2018, an MA in Economics from Universidad de los Andes in 2017, and an MA in Economics from...

Professor lmraan Valodia is Professor of Economics; Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality; and Director of the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits). His research interests...

Justin van Dijk is a lecturer in Social and Geographic Data Science at the Department of Geography, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom. Prior to joining UCL in 2018, he obtained a PhD from Stellenbosch University, South Africa...

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