Paras Aggarwal is a PhD scholar in Economics at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. His doctoral thesis examines how and when green trade and green global value chain participation reduce emissions in G20 countries. His research interests include international trade, environmental economics, and econometrics. Paras holds an M.A. in Economics from Jamia Millia Islamia and a B.A. (Hons.) Economics from the University of Delhi. He has taught undergraduate economics courses at VIPS, Delhi, and worked on research projects with institutions such as RIS, IGC, and IIFT. Outside academia, he enjoys cooking and listening to Hindi retro music.
Wasiu Akintunde is a PhD candidate in Quantitative Economics at Texas Tech University, where he also serves as an instructor for Principles of Economics. Wasiu is a recipient of the GLASSNET/National Science Foundation AccelNet Early Career Research Travel Award and the Texas Tech University 2025 Student International Research Award. He currently serves as a GLASSNET Ambassador, supporting international and interdisciplinary research collaborations aimed at addressing complex environmental and societal challenges. His work seeks to inform evidence-based policy solutions that promote sustainable and resilient economic development.
His research focuses on applied microeconomics, causal inference, energy economics, and computable general equilibrium (CGE) models to evaluate the economic implications of energy transitions, environmental policies and industrial organization.
Olawoumi Alexis Atchade is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of Houston. He holds an M.Sc. in Mathematics, Economics, and Statistics from the African School of Economics. His research focuses on development economics, agricultural economics, and applied econometrics, with current projects on land markets in Ethiopia, conflict spillovers in West Africa, and social networks.
Bharat is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India. His research interests lie in health economics and applied microeconomics. His dissertation explores how labor market conditions and environmental factors influence healthcare utilization and health outcomes. More broadly, he uses large administrative and survey datasets and applies econometric methods to evaluate factors influencing health and welfare outcomes and to generate evidence to inform policies aimed at improving them. Prior to joining the Ph.D. program, Bharat completed his M.A. in Economics from the University of Hyderabad.
I am a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. My main fields of interest are gender, health and economics of crime. In my research, I use quasi-experimental methods to analyse the role of public policies and emerging technologies on choices of women. I also work as an occasional research assistant in the policing and crime department at the Center for Economic Performance, LSE. I obtained a masters degree in economics from Queen Mary University of London in 2020.
I am Priyanshi, a Ph.D. scholar in Economics at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. My research interests lie in gender economics, public health, and development economics, with a particular focus on menstrual health, gender inequality, and women's well-being. I completed my Master's degree in Economics from Banaras Hindu University and qualified the UGC-NET in Economics.
My work is driven by a commitment to understanding socio-economic challenges through rigorous research and evidence-based policy analysis. I am particularly interested in applied econometrics and policy evaluation, with the aim of contributing to inclusive and sustainable development. Through the AMIE Mentoring Program, I hope to strengthen my research skills, expand my academic network, and learn from experienced mentors while contributing meaningfully to the research community
Pragya Jain is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Her research interests lie in macroeconomics, demographic economics, and economic development, with a focus on dynamic macroeconomic modelling and quantitative analysis.
Her doctoral research develops overlapping generations (OLG) models with endogenous fertility to examine the interplay between demographic transition, human capital formation, and long-run economic growth. Using dynamic macroeconomic models and numerical simulations, she studies how investments in education shape the demographic dividend and influence development outcomes in emerging and developing economies.
In one of the projects, she investigates the role of human capital in mitigating the natural resource curse. By incorporating endogenous fertility and human capital accumulation into a dynamic macroeconomic framework, she examines the conditions under which resource-rich economies can transform natural resource wealth into sustained economic prosperity.
Her work seeks to generate policy-relevant insights on demographic change, education, and long-run economic development through rigorous macroeconomic modelling.
Tanzir Rahman Khan is a PhD Candidate in Economics at McMaster University. His research interests are in behavioral and experimental economics, applied game theory, decision-making, and development-oriented applications of economic research. His dissertation studies how people cooperate, form beliefs, and respond to information and incentives in strategic environments.
Before and during his doctoral studies, Tanzir has built a broad applied research and professional background across academia, NGOs, and the private sector. He worked as a Research Associate at the James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, where he contributed to food-security and public-health research, including survey work with Rohingya refugee communities. He also has experience in the banking sector through roles at Scotiabank and CIBC. Tanzir is also a passionate educator, having taught undergraduate economics as a lecturer in Bangladesh and later as an instructor and teaching assistant at McMaster University. He holds an MA in Economics from the University of Saskatchewan and a BSS in Economics from the University of Dhaka.
Sibusiso Sandile Mthembu is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Zululand. He holds a Master of Commerce in Economics and a BCom Honours degree in Economics, awarded Cum Laude. His research interests include monetary economics, financial stability, climate finance, development economics, and economic policy analysis. Sibusiso has experience in academic research, econometric modelling, teaching support, and policy-oriented analysis. He has presented research at national and international conferences and is passionate about using economic research to contribute to evidence-based policymaking and sustainable development in South Africa.
Jiewen Luo is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Rice University. Her research lies at the intersection of education, development, and labor economics, with a focus on child and adolescent human capital formation and the evaluation of social policy. She combines models of household behavior with administrative and survey data to study how households respond to policy incentives and how these responses shape children’s outcomes. She uses counterfactual policy analysis to inform the design of large-scale social programs. She is on the 2026–2027 academic job market.