MBARGA EVOUNA JOSEPH SERGE is a student at the University of BUEA waiting to support the thesis on the distribution and marketing of agricultural products. Mbarge serge conducts research on issues of agri-environmental economics. Waiting to defend my thesis in agricultural economics from the University of Buea in Cameroon and a master's degree in environmental economics, rural development, and agri-food from the University of Yaounde II-Soa in Cameroon, also holder of a BSc. in economics and management from the University of Yaounde II-Soa in Cameroon.

I am a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of Economics, Finance and Management at Goethe University Frankfurt. My advisor is Reyn van Ewijk at Mainz University. Currently I am at MIT for a research visit to Joshua Angrist. My research focuses on empirical questions of health, education and network economics. My analyses of the impact of lockdowns and school closures on the spread of SARS-CoV-2 got recently published in the journals PLOS ONE and PNAS.

During the next year I will finalize my dissertation and want to transition to an academic position in Berlin

Atish is currently a second-year Ph.D. student at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India. He is interested in applying computational techniques to study questions in the area of macroeconomics. For his dissertation, he is planning on assessing the current landscape of DSGE models and then developing a model that tries to improve on the existing ones using ideas from complexity theory and agent-based modeling. Before joining the Ph.D. program, Atish worked in the Risk Strategy Division at HSBC, Bangalore. His background is in economics with a masters from the University of Hyderabad, India, and a bachelor's from Symbiosis International University, Pune. Outside of work, he is an avid quizzer and enjoys playing cricket.

Xueshi Wang is a rising third-year Ph.D. student in the Economics program at Michigan State University. Growing up with a twin brother in a traditional Chinese family in a paternalism society, she starts to observe the differential treatment she receives from her father at an early age. After entering the Ph.D. program, she became more attuned to observing injustice in society. She feels passionate about tackling inequality and gender-related social issues through the lens of economics. She is particularly interested in women’s reproductive health and children’s health. Conducting research that ultimately lightens the burden of childbearing for all women has always piqued her interest.

Born January 3, 1990 in COVE (BENIN), Christ Arsène OUINSOU obtained his Baccalaureate Series D at the 19 old in Benin. After obtaining the degree in Economics option Project Analysis in 2012 at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the University of Abomey Calavi, he received a scholarship from the European Union to do the master 1 and the Master 2 in Economics option Industrial Economics at the University of Yaoundé 2 in Cameroon. On his return to Benin in 2018, he obtained a doctoral thesis registration at the same university where he obtained the license. Currently, he is in his third year of thesis. Following this Master 2 dissertation work, her doctoral thesis focused on "Innovations and structural transformation of the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa". He is therefore passionate about innovation. In addition, Christ Arsène OUINSOU is also a comedian.

I am currently a Ph.D. student at Iowa State University. I completed my Master's in Economics from the Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, and my Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Calcutta, India. My current research work lies at the intersections of Environmental Justice and Neonatal Health in US. Broadly, I am interested in studying environmental inequalities in both developed and,
developing country context.

Ola is a MRes/PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at the LSE. She holds an MSc in Economics from the LSE and a BS in Economics and a BA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to the MRes/PhD program, she spent 4 years working in economic policy and strategy consulting in the Middle East. Her research interests lie at the intersection of labor, development, and education economics. Increasingly, she has also become interested in artificial intelligence and its implications on inequality and redistributive economics. She is currently a research assistant at the Centre for Economic Performance.

Maria Hatalis is currently a PhD Candidate at the Rutgers Business School, with a concentration in Economics. In particular, her research interests include fields in applied economics such as international economics, development economics, and business economics. Her research focuses on cross-border acquisitions and its effect on a firm’s financial performance, corporate value, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings. Prior to this, she was working as a Credit Risk Analyst at Morgan Stanley in Manhattan for two and a half years. Maria also graduated from Lehigh University where she earned a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Economics.

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

His research interest is in developmental economics with a special focus on issues related to education, gender, health, and labor. His work focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of human capital formation (for instance, with education and health), especially in the context of fast-growing
developing countries. All his current working papers and projects are aligned with these critical areas where he is empirically analyzing the impact of various policies adopted by the government.

My name is Sakina. I am an applied economics Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison researching on development economics and gender differences in the economy. I also like to think about the role of social norms in the economy. I am originally from Japan.