I am an Economics Ph.D. student at University of Houston with a strong interest in Economics of Education, Health Economics, and Environmental Economics. I am a doctorate researcher of NSF sponsored PIRE project on climate risk, pollution, and childhood inequalities in low- and middleincome countries and one of my ongoing projects examines the dynamics between natural disaster and educational outcomes in Asian countries. I am also passionate for topics such as social integration, domestic violence, peer effects, and child development.

Kumari Youkta is a Senior Research Fellow at Indian Institute of Technology Patna. Her research interest lies in health economics, healthcare system and development studies.

Hoyoung Yoo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is broadly interested in labor, urban, and public economics. Specifically, her research focuses on the impact of place-based policies on the local labor market, employing both reducedform and structural methods. For her dissertation, she has been studying the effects of Remote Worker Relocation Programs on local employment and local welfare.

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.