I’ve been fascinated by research in development economics since I started my bachelor in Economics at the University of Salamanca. For this reason, I decided to pursue a Master in Development Economics from the Georg-August University of Göttingen, where I worked as a research assistant and field research assistant for multiple research groups in the development economics department. After finishing my masters, I worked as visiting researcher at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) focusing primarily on policy related to Climate-Smart Agriculture. To return to empirical research, I applied and was accepted for a very competitive Ph.D. position at the ifo Institute and the Munich Graduate School of Economics of the Ludwig-Maximiliams University

Karan is a student at the University of Luxembourg and Luxembourg Institute of Socioeconomic Research (LISER) where he is working on understanding factors related to underrepresentation in economics academia and PhD field choices.

He has a master's degree in economics from the Centre for Development Studies (Trivandrum, India). Prior to enrolling in his Ph.D., he worked for six years and led various research and policy projects in education, early childhood, gender, rural livelihood, social protection policies, and urban governance.

Elisa Vilorio Medina is a Ph.D. candidate and Fulbright Scholar in Economics at Florida International University. Before her Ph.D., she was the Deputy Director of the Foreign Exchange Reserve Management at the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, where she was responsible for the quantitative, risk, analytics, and investment strategies of the Foreign Reserve Portfolio (Approx. USD 14b). Her dissertation focuses on the impacts of exogenous shocks in macroeconomic variables such as inflation and exchange rate, using Structural Vector Autoregression models (SVAR). Ms. Vilorio Medina holds a Master of Science in Finance from the IAE Aix en Provence in France, and a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra

I am a Ph.D. Student of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, one of the Premier institutes of India. I nurture a keen research interest in the field of Health and Development Economics, Migration Studies, and Gender studies. I am currently working on the impact of migration on health and education outcomes in the Indian context. Resilience, tenacity, and a go-getter attitude are some of the qualities I practice. My passion for teaching and research makes me a good fit for a career in academia. Outside of the office, reading, writing, and enjoying nature are some of my hobbies.

My research interests are development, labor, and health economics with an emphasis on the role of culture. My current research examines the consequences of cultural norms specifically for gender outcomes related to education and fertility. I also do some work on agricultural policy and
environmental pollution.

Raisa Gomez-Lowe is a PhD candidate in economics at Clark University. She specializes in applied econometrics and development economics. Her research interests are focused on evaluating the impact of public policy on the wellbeing and educational outcomes of individuals in developing countries. In Raisa’s dissertation she studies the impact of universal secondary education on educational outcomes and the effects of unconditional cash transfers on human capital in developing countries. Raisa earned an MA in economics from Clark University and an MS in economics and a BS in economics & management studies from The University of the West Indies

I'm a fourth year PhD student in the Applied Economics Program at the University of Minnesota. I also work at State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC), which is a part of the Health Policy and Management Division of the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota.

My research interests fall within the intersection of agricultural economics, demographic economics, and rural economics. I have been working on research related to farm succession, rural migration, and rural mortality in the U.S. agricultural sector.

I received my Bachelor and Master degrees in Agricultural Economics at the National Taiwan University. I was born and raised in Pingtung, a rural county in the Southernmost of Taiwan.

I am a fourth-year econ Ph.D. candidate from George Washington University. I have taken field courses in labor, education, development, and behavioral economics. I have experience with field experiments (as a Research Associate based in India). Currently, I am working on a paper that explores the effect of gender-caste student-teacher matching on student social-emotional learning outcomes. I am interested in applied microeconomics topics related to education policy, migration, social norms, and human behavior.

Hamida Mubasshera is a 4th-year graduate student of Economics at Temple University and mother of a toddler. Originally from Bangladesh, Hamida's research interest includes applied microeconomics with a specific interest in labor economics, health economics, and economics of crime. In her 3rd year paper, she explored the association between phonography usage during adolescence and risky sexual behavior. She has many other exciting research ideas related to the broad literature on the sex market, the economics of privacy, and digital economics. She hopes that the AMIE mentoring program will help her to grow as a researcher

I am a Bsc and Msc holder of Agricultural Economics and Resource Management from Moi University. Currently doing my PhD in Agricultural Economics and Resource Management. My thesis is entitled “Determinants of Household Food Security in Kenya: An Engendered and Agricultural Commercialization Perspectives”. I am a part-time lecturer at Moi University and at University of Eldoret. I have received a research grant on Tobacco Control by IDRC. I have also presented papers both virtual and physical conferences. I did my internship at International Institute for Legislative Affairs. I have trained and supervised enumerators on data collection. I, also design questionnaire forms using; ODK, Kobo toolbox, SurveyCTO, and most importantly I am proficient with STATA software.