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Andy McKay is Professor of Development Economics at the University of Sussex, where he has worked since 2006, and Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. He has done extensive research on issues of poverty, inequality and living standards...
Kyle McNabb is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. He attained his PhD from the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh in 2016, and has previously worked on research projects at the World Bank and International Centre for Tax and Development. His work is...
Deepak Nayyar is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He has taught at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex, the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, and the New School for Social Research in New...
Marcelo Neri is the Director and founder of the Center for Social Policies at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (CPS/FGV) and holds a PhD in Economics, Princeton University. Previously he was the Secretary-General of the Council of Economic and Social...
Carol Newman is a professor in the Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, where she joined in 2002. She is currently on sabbatical at the University of Copenhagen for the 2013-14 academic year. Dr Newman completed her BA at Trinity in...
Miguel Niño-Zarazúa is a Research Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER). Previously, he was a Research Fellow at the Brooks World Poverty Institute and the Chronic...
John Page is a Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC and a Non-resident Senior Fellow of the World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER). He is visiting...
Antti Pelanteri is a Research Assistant/Database Administrator at UNU-WIDER. He holds a Master’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Helsinki. His research interests include economic and social inequality, economic development and...
Per Pinstrup-Andersen is the H. E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy, the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Professor of Applied Economics at Cornell University. He has served as Chairman of the Science Council...
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...
Jean-Philippe Platteau is a Professor of economics, and the director of CRED (Centre de Recherche en Economie du Developpement), at the University of Namur, Belgium. Professor Platteau has published widely in journals and published several books,...
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...
Pia Rattenhuber is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. She has previously worked for OECD (Department of Labour and Social Affairs), the German Ministry of Economics and the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin). She attained her PhD from...
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...
Risto Rönkkö is a research assistant at UNU-WIDER. He is pursuing his PhD in Economics at Univeristy of Tampere, Finland. His research interests include international finance, in particular exchange rate policies, and political economy...
Ricardo Santos is a UNU-WIDER Research Fellow, stationed in Maputo, Mozambique, as Technical Advisor to the Centre of Economics and Management Studies at the Faculty of Economics of Eduardo Mondlane University. He holds a PhD in Economics from the...
Caroline Schimanski is a part-time Research Assistant at UNU-WIDER. At the same time she is pursuing a PhD in Economics at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. Her research interests include economic development and sustainability...
Anthony Shorrocks was Director of UNU-WIDER from January 2001. Previously he taught at the London School of Economics and at the University of Essex, and had visiting appointments in the USA, Canada, Italy and Russia. Since leaving UNU-WIDER he has...
Måns Söderbom is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, at the University of Gothenburg. He is also a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE),...
Andrés Solimano holds a PhD. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is founder and Chairman of the International Center for Globalization and Development (CIGLOB), formerly a Country Director at the World Bank,...
Andy Sumner is a Reader in International Development in the Department of International Development at King’s College London. His research is at the interface of development studies and development economics. His research interests focus on...
Maureen Were has a PhD in economics with a wide experience in economic research and policy, macroeconomic modelling, monetary policy and gender analysis. She has worked at the Central of Bank, the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and...
Ingrid Woolard is Dean and Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town, a Research Associate of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) and a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labour ( IZA ). Her...