Milla Nyyssölä has a PhD in economics with research experience in labour and gender economics, poverty, vulnerability and inequality, tax-benefit microsimulation models, behavioural economics, and development aid. She is the focal point of UNU-WIDER’s country project on Tanzania - Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs. She also holds a position of Senior Researcher at the Labour Institute for Economic Research in Finland.
Aysegul Kayaoglu | Presenter
Aysegul Kayaoglu is an Associate Professor of Economics at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, and a Research Associate at Economic Research Forum, Egypt. Her main research interests are labor economics, migration, crime and informal institutions. Her current project is ‘The impact of residential segregation on economic integration of Syrian refugees in Turkey’.
Rosa Abraham | Presenter
Rosa Abraham is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University. Her research has focused on forms of informal labour in India, examining the rise of informalization in the formal/organized sector and the consequent impacts on productivity and inequality. She is an author and contributor to the annual State of Working India reports published by CSE. Her interests include labour and development economics particularly issues relating to women's work, measurement of work and the changing nature of informal work.
Priyanka Chatterjee | Presenter
Priyanka Chatterjee is presently serving as Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and International Business, School of Business Studies, Sharda University. Previously she was formerly Assistant Professor, School of Management, Presidency University, Bengaluru and Senior Programme Coordinator and Data Analyst in Public Health Resource Society (Network). She has also been a lecturer in various colleges of Kolkata and New Delhi.
Malvya Chintakindi | Presenter
Malvya Chintakindi is an international development professional and a practising anthropologist with a background in Monitoring-Evaluation-Learning, participatory research, advocacy and programme development. Currently, she is pursuing her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Oregon with a research focus on gender inequality, gender-based violence, notions of development and community-based interventions.
Jackeline Velazco | Presenter
Jackeline Velazco is Associate Professor at the Economics Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and Lecturer at University of Girona (Spain). She has a PhD in Economics from the University of Manchester (UK) and Master degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies (The Netherlands). Her research experience on development economics covers: agricultural economics and rural development; well-being and quality of life in developing countries and household economics.