Oloyede Waliyat teaches at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria's Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management. She is a South African graduate student studying agricultural economics at the University of Pretoria. She graduated from Birmingham, United Kingdom, with an MSc in Development Management (Public Economic Management & Finance). In order to pursue a second Master's degree in Agricultural Economics at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria, she also acquired a research funding from the Africa Rice/National Cereals Research Institute (NCRI). The European Union's Innofood Africa project is the subject of her PhD dissertation. She was granted a PhD research grant by AERC. She has also benefited from Oxford, United Kingdom's Young Scholars Matchmaking Workshop. Her career goals are to carry out relevant research and be one of the primary policy drivers for sustainable food systems. Hence, her research interest includes agricultural economics, development economics, food and nutrition policy, resource and environmental economics. She is passionate about econometric data analysis and has independently prepared and published several journal articles by journal outlets both locally and internationally. She has presented some of her papers at international conferences including the Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Society and Agricultural Economics Society of South Africa.

I am a final year PhD student in finance and risk at the University of Nottingham, UK. I hold a MSc in Finance and Investment from the University of Hull and a BA in Mathematics and Political Science from the College of Wooster, Ohio. I have been an active teaching assistant and a visiting lecturer at the Nottingham University Business School, where I taught lectures in applied econometrics and workshops in quantitative methods. I have recently been interested in pluralism, development, and education economics, which have motivated me to explore new paths, and I hope to continue learning more about these topics. Currently, I'm investigating the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies on the financial market. My previous work examined the association between managerial characteristics and information disclosure among US companies.

Sivadasan is currently a Ph.D. scholar in the economics department at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode.

His research interest lies at the confluence of development economics and household finance disciplines. More specifically, I work on the determinants of the household decision to use the formal financial product and services and its welfare effect on the household's financial well-being.

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at Stony Brook University. My primary research interests revolve around gender,development, and spatial economics. Specifically, my focus centers on comprehending the determinants of domestic violence within the context of India.

Shagufta teaches economics courses at IBA and regularly writes in newspapers. She has worked at OICCI as senior researcher and at CBER (IBA). She has been part of several research projects including development of Shadow Budget for Sindh government, National Initiative for SDGs, Sindh Tax Revenue Mobilization Plan etc. Shagufta has contributed a chapter in each of the two e-books on the impact of COVID19 on the Pakistani economy and has provided assistance in the e-book “Policy response during challenging times". She is the editor of "Life and Work of Great Economists".

I am a 6th year PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. My research interest lies at the intersection of labor, health, and economics of the family. A part of my research also involves using molecular genetic data to study economic outcomes. When not doing economics, I try to replicate Roger Federer on a tennis court.

Mrignyani is a PhD student at the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Economics at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Her dissertation focuses on food policy in developing countries. Her research interest lies in investigating consumer behavior and implementing interventions within food environments to promote improved nutrition. Prior to this she was a Research Analyst at International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) evaluating agricultural-nutrition linkages. She has a master’s degree in economics from TERI School of Advanced Studies.

Christian graduated with his B.S. in Psychology from the University of Tennessee Chattanooga in 2018. He is currently a 3rd year Ph.D. student studying Economics at Georgia State University, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. His research interests lie in Health and Public Economics. His research to date includes studying how alcohol-control policies impact addiction and health, how ridesharing impacts alcohol and substancerelated mortality, the health impacts of e-cigarettes, and how alcohol intoxication and violent cues interact to facilitate violent crime.

Kerry-Ann Purcell is a third year Economics PhD candidate at the University of Arkansas. Her research is focused on the field of Development Economics. In particular, she is most interested in issues related to poverty, inequality and crime. Kerry-Ann has a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Arkansas (2023), and a Master of Science in Economics from the University of the West Indies (2019). She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Management Studies from the University of the West Indies (2017).

Danielle Purcell is a third year PhD student at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Her research interests are in combining Experimental, Behavioral, and Development Economics. Her current work seeks to further the understanding of the economic impact of corruption awareness and whistleblower incentives. She holds a Master of Science in Economics from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Banking/Finance from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica.