Tanmay Devi is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Rice University, focusing on studying household behavior and human capital in India. His work examines how families make decisions about fertility, schooling, nutrition and resource allocation under social, economic and policy constraints. He combines structural models with field and survey data to understand these responses and what they imply for policy design.

Saloni Taneja is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Southern California, working in urban and environmental economics. One strand of her research examines how households in developing cities adapt to gaps in public service delivery, focusing on rationed public water supply. Her work studies the costs of private adaptation for shared resources, and the industrial organization of markets that enable adaptation. A second strand examines how environmental risk and housing policy shape land and housing markets. Prior to her PhD, Saloni was a Senior Research Associate at J-PAL South Asia, where she worked on field experiments on wage insurance and public service delivery in rural India. She holds a master's degree in Economics from Ashoka University and a bachelor's degree in Economics from Delhi University.

Mitali Roy Mathur is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of California, Davis.

Her research causally identifies how policy design shapes whether marginalized groups access the jobs, programs, and legal rights they are eligible for. She applies these questions to two settings. In development economics, she implements field experiments to evaluate programs impacting informal and gig workers. In labor economics, she studies the impacts of immigration policies on different immigrant groups.

Mitali received her B.S. in international economics from Georgetown University and previously worked as a junior economist at IDinsight.

Bosede Ogunbamise is a Ph.D. student in Agricultural Economics at Louisiana State University, with an MSc and Graduate Certificate in GIS from Oklahoma State University. Raised in a rural Nigerian farming community, she developed a strong commitment to improving agricultural productivity and equity through data-driven research. Her work applies spatial econometrics, GIS, and data analytics to study yield risks, resource allocation, and rural development, aiming to inform inclusive agricultural policies.

Bosede has served as a Graduate Research Assistant at both LSU and OSU, integrating spatial data with econometric models, mentoring undergraduates in research methods, and developing data visualization tools. She also gained professional experience as a Data Analyst with Farmkonnect Agribusiness in Nigeria, leading projects that improved field data accuracy and customer engagement. A recipient of the Harry P. Mapp Graduate Fellowship and AGCO Scholarship, Bosede is committed to advancing minority representation and supporting underserved farming communities

Melese Tizazu is a Ph.D. candidate at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. He has been working at Jinka University, Ethiopia in research, teaching & community outreach programs for over five years. His research interests fall on adoption, impact evaluation, food security, welfare, health economics, development economics & related. He is currently working on studying "Adoption of Improved Feed and Its Impact on the Welfare of Smallholder Milk Producers: Evidence from Northwestern Ethiopia"

I am an economist with a strong background in economic development, international trade, and policy analysis. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Lagos, I specialise in international economics, with a research focus on technological innovation and intra-regional trade flows within ECOWAS. My academic work is motivated by a dedication to promoting inclusive trade and development strategies tailored to the specific economic realities of developing countries. I am highly motivated, detail-oriented, and passionate about producing research that informs policy, encourages regional integration, and supports sustainable economic growth in Africa and beyond.

Soumi Bose is a research scholar in the Department of Economics and Finance, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. She joined the program in August 2023 and is currently in her fourth semester. Before joining the program, she briefly worked in the academic content creation sector. She obtained her Master’s in Arts in Economics in 2020 from Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, India. She earned her undergraduate degree in B.Sc (Economics) from the University of Calcutta. Her research interest broadly covers gender economics, development economics and public policy issues. She is passionate about areas and aspects related to inequality, economic development and evidence-based policies. Her research focuses on various aspects of female labour market outcomes, namely, the use of the internet, childcare policy, and skill disparity in trade. Moreover, she is an active member and the department representative in the BPHC PhD Placement cell. She also officially manages the department's social media outreach initiatives.

Ryan is a fourth year PhD student in the Applied Economics program at the University of Minnesota. His research lies at the intersection of environmental economics and development economics. Using causal inference methods to identify structural models, Ryan takes an applied microeconomics approach to assess the value of ecosystems in economic production and economic development, and firm behavior under market failures.

I am a fourth-year PhD student in Economics at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence. I completed my undergraduate studies at Shivaji College, University of Delhi, and my Master’s in Economics from Ambedkar University Delhi. My research interests include health, gender, and labor economics. My dissertation explores how public policies, demographic changes, and social norms interact to shape women’s well-being and economic participation in India.

Akansha Gupta is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the Delhi School of Economics. Her research interests lie in applied microeconomics, with a focus on education, labor, migration, and economic history. She is currently working on a paper that investigates the long-run impact of Partition of India, with a particular focus on how the influx of literate refugees influenced the economic outcomes of the regions that received them. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Jamia Millia Islamia and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce, University of Delhi.