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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 economics at the University of Tampere and also works as a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. He has previously worked for the Labour Institute for Economic Research (Helsinki, Finland) and the...
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,...
Lant Pritchett is currently Professor of the Practice of International Development and Faculty Chair of the Masters in Public Policy in International Development (MPA/ID) program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Prior to returning the...
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...
Vincenzo Salvucci is a UNU-WIDER research fellow currently based at the Directorate of Economic and Financial Studies (DEEF) of the Ministry of Economics and Finance in Maputo, Mozambique, as part of the WIDER project "Inclusive growth in...
Ricardo Santos is a Research Fellow of the United Nations University World Institute of Development Economics Research - UNU-WIDER, stationed in Maputo, Mozambique. He is also an Associate Researcher of the Institute of International Inequalities of...
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...
Smriti Sharma is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics and a Masters degree in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics. Her research interests are in behavioral economics, development economics, and labour...
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...
Saurabh Singhal is a research fellow at UNU-WIDER focusing in applied economics. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Southern California and a M.A. in economics from the Delhi School of Economics. His research interests include the...
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,...
Kenneth Strzepek is a Research Scientist at MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus of Civil, Environmental...
Andy Sumner is Co-Director of King’s International Development Institute and a Reader in International Development at King’s College, London. Sumner is a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at the UNU-WIDER; and holds associate positions...
From 1999-2010, Dr Roger Williamson organised nearly 80 sustainable development conferences at Wilton Park, the UK government's specialist international centre for policy dialogue. He has also worked at senior level within Christian Aid, the...
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...
Michael Woolcock is Lead Social Development Specialist with the World Bank's Development Research Group in Washington, DC, where he has worked since 1998. For ten of the last fifteen years he has also been a (part-time) Lecturer in Public Policy...