Sivashankar, a PhD Student at Auburn University hails from Sri Lanka. His research interests lie in Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Development, and environment. Currently, he is working on Food choice experiments.

I am a PhD candidate in Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. I am interested in migration, discrimination, community dynamics and identity formation. Currently I am working on the effect of migration and subsequent governmental policies on the identity and integration of various diasporas in Europe.

Akash is a Ph.D. Scholar in Economics from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. His research interests include development economics, focusing on health, labor, and industrial development issues. He holds a master's degree in Economics from IIT Roorkee. His Ph.D. thesis focuses on understanding consumer behavior in the presence of health risks.

Bisiriyu Sodiq Olaide is currently on Ph.D. fellowship at SRM University AP, India with research specialization in International Economics. He's research interest includes Development Economics, Environmental Economics, and Applied Economics. Sodiq is motivated towards contributing to literature and policy-oriented tasks in his area of specialization and research interests. Especially those related to the attainment of the African Union (AU) Agenda 2063 aspiration of building a prosperous Africa based on Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development.

Furthermore, Sodiq is interested in research that explores the achievement of development (including the SDG's) across emerging and developing economies of the world.

I am a Ph.D. student in Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. My research interests lie in the intersection of environmental & energy economics, public policy, and development economics. My current work examines the distributional labor market effects of oil and gas extraction and public support for vehicle policies. Prior to Carnegie Mellon, I received a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics at Lawrence University where I studied the impacts of electrification on air quality-related health outcomes in Vietnam.

Ndirangu Ngunjiri, a seasoned financial professional, excels in investment analysis, financial modeling, forecasting, and portfolio management. With 17+ years of experience, he founded and manages Watermark Financial Consultants. He's adept at client relations, business development, and heads operations. Ndirangu chairs the Ministerial Audit Committee at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is on the investments committee at Kenya Bureau of Standards, and an audit committee member of Nairobi City County. He pursues a Doctoral Fellowship in Finance & Accounting at the University of Nairobi, focusing on inequality, entrepreneurship, innovation, and more. A regular publisher, Business Daily Africa columnist, and frequent speaker at conferences, he's affiliated with esteemed institutes like IFE Institute of Advanced Studies. Holding an MBA and a Bachelor's in Commerce (Accounting), Ndirangu is a member of various professional bodies.

Priyoma Mustafi is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, in the Department of Economics. My research interests lie in the field of Development and Behavioral Economics. Specifically, I am interested in exploring the gender differences to social recognition, gendered norms and information diffusion in households, as well as misreporting among public sector employees. I explore most of these topics with a regional focus on South Asia and employ both (lab and field) experimental and observational research methods. Currently I have field work based in Pakistan and India.

Dafne Murillo is a PhD candidate in Economics at Columbia University. Her research lies at the intersection of development and political economy. Originally from Lima, Peru, her work focuses largely on Latin America—one of the most unequal regions in the world— and is motivated by its challenges. She is currently working on projects related to long-run effects of redistributive policy, state capacity, and local development in resourcerich economies. Previously she worked as a predoctoral research assistant at Columbia Economics for Professors Michael Best, Jonas Hjort and Eric Verhoogen. She graduated with a Bachelors of Arts in Economics and Latin American Studies from Columbia College in 2019.

Mr. Narbadeshwar Mishra is a fifth-year Ph.D. student at IFMR Graduate School of Business, Krea University. His research interest lies in the area of development Economics. He predominantly works in Economics of Education, Health Economics, Financial Inclusion, Environmental Economics, and Political Economy. He is primarily interested in causal inference studies.

I am a PhD candidate in Economics and Public Policy at Tufts University. My research interests are in development economics, agricultural economics, and applied micro. I my job market paper, I executed a twostage randomized control trial in Bangladesh to examine whether price subsidies differentially allocate agricultural inputs to farmers with higher or lower returns.