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UNU-WIDER research is coordinated by a core group of resident and non-resident research fellows.

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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...

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...

Ian Goldman is Adjunct Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town, a fellow of South Africa’s Human Sciences Research Council and a visiting Professor at the University of Reading, UK. As a UNU-WIDER Non...

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...

Prof Michael Noble CBE is a Director and Senior Research Fellow at Southern African Social Policy Research Insights. He is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Oxford in the UK, Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College at the...

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...

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...

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...

Arief Anshory Yusuf is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Padjadjaran University, Indonesia, Research Affiliates at Department of International Development of King’s College London, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Crawford School...

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