Bosede Ogunbamise is a Ph.D. student in Agricultural Economics at Louisiana State University, with an MSc and Graduate Certificate in GIS from Oklahoma State University. Raised in a rural Nigerian farming community, she developed a strong commitment to improving agricultural productivity and equity through data-driven research. Her work applies spatial econometrics, GIS, and data analytics to study yield risks, resource allocation, and rural development, aiming to inform inclusive agricultural policies.

Bosede has served as a Graduate Research Assistant at both LSU and OSU, integrating spatial data with econometric models, mentoring undergraduates in research methods, and developing data visualization tools. She also gained professional experience as a Data Analyst with Farmkonnect Agribusiness in Nigeria, leading projects that improved field data accuracy and customer engagement. A recipient of the Harry P. Mapp Graduate Fellowship and AGCO Scholarship, Bosede is committed to advancing minority representation and supporting underserved farming communities

Melese Tizazu is a Ph.D. candidate at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. He has been working at Jinka University, Ethiopia in research, teaching & community outreach programs for over five years. His research interests fall on adoption, impact evaluation, food security, welfare, health economics, development economics & related. He is currently working on studying "Adoption of Improved Feed and Its Impact on the Welfare of Smallholder Milk Producers: Evidence from Northwestern Ethiopia"

I am an economist with a strong background in economic development, international trade, and policy analysis. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Lagos, I specialise in international economics, with a research focus on technological innovation and intra-regional trade flows within ECOWAS. My academic work is motivated by a dedication to promoting inclusive trade and development strategies tailored to the specific economic realities of developing countries. I am highly motivated, detail-oriented, and passionate about producing research that informs policy, encourages regional integration, and supports sustainable economic growth in Africa and beyond.

Soumi Bose is a research scholar in the Department of Economics and Finance, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. She joined the program in August 2023 and is currently in her fourth semester. Before joining the program, she briefly worked in the academic content creation sector. She obtained her Master’s in Arts in Economics in 2020 from Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, India. She earned her undergraduate degree in B.Sc (Economics) from the University of Calcutta. Her research interest broadly covers gender economics, development economics and public policy issues. She is passionate about areas and aspects related to inequality, economic development and evidence-based policies. Her research focuses on various aspects of female labour market outcomes, namely, the use of the internet, childcare policy, and skill disparity in trade. Moreover, she is an active member and the department representative in the BPHC PhD Placement cell. She also officially manages the department's social media outreach initiatives.

Ryan is a fourth year PhD student in the Applied Economics program at the University of Minnesota. His research lies at the intersection of environmental economics and development economics. Using causal inference methods to identify structural models, Ryan takes an applied microeconomics approach to assess the value of ecosystems in economic production and economic development, and firm behavior under market failures.

I am a fourth-year PhD student in Economics at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence. I completed my undergraduate studies at Shivaji College, University of Delhi, and my Master’s in Economics from Ambedkar University Delhi. My research interests include health, gender, and labor economics. My dissertation explores how public policies, demographic changes, and social norms interact to shape women’s well-being and economic participation in India.

Akansha Gupta is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the Delhi School of Economics. Her research interests lie in applied microeconomics, with a focus on education, labor, migration, and economic history. She is currently working on a paper that investigates the long-run impact of Partition of India, with a particular focus on how the influx of literate refugees influenced the economic outcomes of the regions that received them. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Jamia Millia Islamia and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce, University of Delhi.

Hoda El-Enbaby is a PhD candidate in Health Economics and Policy at Lancaster University.
Her research explores the intersection of social protection and health systems. Her doctoral
work contributes to the growing evidence base on the economic evaluation of policy
interventions.
Prior to her doctoral studies, Hoda developed a strong career in economics and applied
research. She has contributed to peer-reviewed publications and policy reports addressing
economic development in low- and middle-income countries.
She holds a Master of Science (MSc) in Economics from the London School of Economics
and Political Science (LSE) and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics from the American
University in Cairo (AUC). Her research interests include health economics, gender
economics, development economics, and labor market dynamics, through which she
approaches policy challenges from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Born in 1994 in the Centre region of Cameroon, Tuekam Kamga Ulrich Ines, daughter of Kamga Emmanuel and Djuikom Albertine, obtained her Baccalauréat C in 2012 at the Lycée Générale Leclerc. In 2019, she was selected for the Master's programme in Economic and Financial Engineering at the University of Yaoundé 2 (Cameroon) in collaboration with the University of Rennes (France). She wrote a Master's thesis and obtained her degree. The economics section of this thesis will be presented at the third WTO Chair conference in 2024. In addition, her participation and commitment to a UNDP project led to her being selected in 2023 as a member of the project team at the Centre for Economic and Management Research (CEREG). Tuekam has a particular interest in institutional, democracy and gender issues. Pursuing her professional goals, she devotes part of her research to the effects of institutional trust.

I am a fifth-year PhD Economics student at University College Dublin, Ireland. My research revolves around understanding the dynamic between climate variability, weather shocks, and climate change, and their impact on internal migration in developing countries.
I aim to shed light on the complex relationship between environmental factors and human mobility, contributing to our understanding of the consequences of climate change on vulnerable populations.
Additionally, I am interested in labour market policies, with a particular focus on how minimum wage policies affect the labour market outcomes of workers employed in the informal and non-compliant sectors.
I hold a Bachelor of Science in Statistics from the University of Delhi, India and a Master of Science in Economics from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.
Through my research, I seek to contribute to evidence-based policymaking and address pressing societal challenges at the intersection of labour markets, climate change, and development economics.