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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...
Rute Martins Caeiro, a development economist, is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER. Her research aims to identify economic mechanisms with the potential to inform policy design, particularly in the context of rural development. The core of her work...
Omar Shahabudin McDoom is a comparative political scientist and Associate Professor in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests lie in peace and security. He specializes in the...
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...
Enrico Nichelatti is a research assistant at UNU-WIDER. His work focuses on tax benefit microsimulation models. He is a PhD student at the University of Helsinki in the faculty of Social Sciences and focuses on taxation and social protection in the...
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...
Rodrigo Oliveira is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER working on tax-benefit microsimulation models. His research interests are development economics and applied economics, focusing on education, health, poverty, and inequality. He is on a leave of...
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...
Christopher Wayne Pillay is a Data Scientist at UNU-WIDER and is currently working on the Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) programme in Pretoria, South Africa. He previously worked for UNU-WIDER as a Data...
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...
Klarizze Puzon is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER. She is an applied economist who uses game theory, experiments (laboratory and artefactual field designs), and surveys as tools. Broadly speaking, her interests focus on the understanding of...
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...
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...
Laura Saavedra-Lux is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER. In her work she examines the micro-foundations of political violence, socio-economic development, and the consolidation of peace. She is specifically interested in understanding how ordinary...
Dr Savoia is a senior lecturer 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...
Simone Schotte is a development economist with research interests at the cross-roads of inequality, social stratification, and labour markets research. She joined UNU-WIDER as Research Associate in February 2019. Before coming to Helsinki, she...
Andy Sumner is a Professor of International Development at King’s College London. He is also Director of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Global Challenges Strategic Research Network on Global Poverty and Inequality Dynamics...