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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 is the Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences since March 2022 and Professor of Economics since 2007. As Professor of Economics, Professor Burger has held several leadership positions, including Pro-Vice-...
Arusha Cooray is Sri Lanka’s ambassador to Norway, Finland, and Iceland. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and an MA (economics) and BA (economics) from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She...
Ashwini Deshpande is Professor of Economics at Ashoka University, India. Her PhD and early publications have been on the international debt crisis of the 1980s. Subsequently, she has been working on the economics of discrimination and affirmative...
Gary S. Fields is the John P. Windmuller Professor of International and Comparative Labor and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He has been an Ivy League teacher and professor for more than forty years. He teaches and conducts research...
T.H. (Tim) Gindling is a professor of economics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). His research has focused on the study of factors influencing the distribution of wages, income and work in developing economies. Recent...
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...
Vegard Iversen is Professor of Development Economics and Head of the Livelihoods and Institutions Department, Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich, UK. After completing his PhD in development economics from University of...
Min Jung Kim is a Visiting Researcher at UNU-WIDER and a Ph.D. candidate at American University in Washington, DC. Her research spans international relations, comparative politics, and political violence. She focuses on the role of marginalized...
Anirudh Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. He received his PhD in Government from Cornell University in 2000; and a Master’s in Economics from Delhi Universityin 1980. His...
Murray Leibbrandt is Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town and a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. In this capacity, and as Director of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), he leads the...
Piotr Lewandowski is a labour economist, President of the Board at Institute for Structural Research, Warsaw, and a Research Fellow at IZA, Bonn, Germany. In the past he has collaborated with Warsaw School of Economics, and the Ministry of Labour...
Sushanta Mallick is a professor of international finance at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London, UK. Also, since January 2015, he has been the Co-editor-in-Chief of Economic Modelling , a leading scholarly journal...
Oliver Morrissey is Professor in Development Economics and Director of CREDIT, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, where he has been since 1989. He is a Managing Co-Editor of the Journal of Development Studies (since 2006) and was a...
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...
Miguel Niño-Zarazúa is a development economist and Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. Miguel’s research interests are in the areas of poverty, inequality, tax policy, welfare–benefit systems and the social...
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...
Arkebe Oqubay, PhD, is a Senior Minister and Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, has been at the centre of policy-making for over twenty-five years. He currently serves as Chair of several leading public organizations and...
Janneke Pieters is Assistant Professor in Development Economics at Wageningen University, and Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). Her research interests are primarily in the fields of labour economics and development economics...
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...
Alan Roe has worked for more than 45 years as an academic economist and as a policy adviser. He has degrees from the Universities of Leeds, Wales and Cambridge. Early in his career he was a research economist at the University of Dar-es-Salaam and...