Dr. Sayahnika Basu is an Assistant Professor of Economics at James Madison University. As an applied microeconomist working at the intersection of environmental and development economics, her research examines how climate change, environmental degradation, and mineral extraction impact vulnerable populations. Her work focuses on translating these socioeconomic impacts into policy-relevant outcomes, particularly within developing economies. Dr. Basu earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UC San Diego, where she is currently an external faculty affiliate of the 21st Century India Center. Dedicated to supporting early-career academics, she co-organizes the Virtual Seminar on the Indian Economy for junior scholars at UC San Diego’s 21st Century India Center.
I am a development economist from Bangladesh. I work as a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), where I am based at the Washington DC headquarters but divide my time between there and IFPRI’s Bangladesh office.
Based on large-scale surveys, field and lab experiments in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, my research explores agriculture, social protection, nutrition and skills training with a particular focus on intra-household decision-making. Some of my work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals in the fields of development economics, agricultural economics, and nutrition.
I received my PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from University of Maryland – College Park. Earlier, I worked as a Research Analyst at the Africa Gender Innovation Lab at the World Bank, where I was also selected in the Young Professionals Program (YPP) (declined). Before graduate school, I was a Research Coordinator at Innovations for Poverty Action.
Dr. Herdelin earned his Ph.D. in economics from the New School. He holds a M.S. in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University, a M.S. in Financial Economics from West Texas A&M University, and a B.A. in Economics from Thomas Edison State University. Dr. Herdelin is also a Certified Business Economist (CBE) with the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) and a Certified Forecaster (CF) with the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF).
Prior to joining Saint Peter’s as a full time faculty member in 2025, Dr. Herdelin served as a Visiting Professor of Economics at the Villanova School of Business and Ursinus College. He was most recently Adjunct Professor of Economics at Stockton University. Outside of academia, Dr. Herdelin was an Economist with the United States Department of the Treasury. He has taught a wide range of courses in Economics, Finance, and Statistics.
Dr. Herdelin’s research focuses on the impact of monetary policy on the distribution of income through its dual mandate of price stability and maximum employment. His first article, “The Impact of the Unemployment Gap on the Labor Share of Income” was recently published in the Eastern Economic Journal (EEJ) in June of 2025. A second article, “Revisiting a Post Keynesian Explanation of US Inflation” was published in the Journal of Risk and Financial Management in March of 2026.
Born and raised in Lima (Peru), Fabiola Alba-Vivar completed her BA in Economics at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, where she has also worked as an Instructor in the Department of Economics.
Prior to graduate school, she worked at JPAL (LATAM) and as a pre-doctoral fellow at Princeton University's Industrial Relations Section (Department of Economics). Fabiola holds an MA in Economics from Brown University (2019), and an MPhil (2023) and Ph.D. (2024) in Economics and Education from Columbia University.
Today, Fabiola is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University.
I'm an Assistant Professor in at Linnaeus University and a researcher at the Center for Migration and Integration Research at the Stockholm School of Economics. I hold a PhD in economics from Uppsala University and has previously been a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley and Columbia University. My research focuses on inequality, migration, and replication, and I've published in journals including Nature, PNAS, and the Economic Journal. I've supervised PhD, master's, and bachelor's students, and mentored in various mentoring programs.
Amrutha Manjunath is a tenure-track Nottingham Research Fellow in International Trade (2025–28), followed by appointment as Assistant Professor (from 2028) at the School of Economics, University of Nottingham, UK. She is a researcher at GEP and the ESRC-funded Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP). She received my PhD in Economics at Pennsylvania State University in 2025, prior to which she graduated with a B. A. (Honors) in Economics and Mathematics from Ashoka University in 2019. Her research interests are spatial, trade, and development economics.
My research agenda is centered on how economic and environmental shocks shape the broader sense of human capital. In addition, I have been exploring a new research agenda around AI-assisted training and education in human capital development in various contexts.
João Gabriel de Araujo Oliveira is a Brazilian applied macroeconomist based in Brasília, working on growth and income distribution, fiscal-climate policy, and the effects of AI on labour markets in Latin America. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Brasília and is currently a CNPq post-doctoral fellow, a Short-Term Consultant at the World Bank Group, and an Associate Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. At the World Bank he has contributed to a Public Finance Review for Brazil and to work on AI and labour markets commissioned by the Ministry of Finance. He has published around eighteen peer-reviewed articles and co-edited a volume for Edward Elgar. Having built his career through Brazil's public universities, largely outside elite academic networks, he is committed to mentoring — a natural extension of longstanding work on accessibility and inclusion, including coordinating a university accessibility centre and working as a sign-language interpreter.
Bhabesh Hazarika is an Economist at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi and Program Advisor and Adjunct Faculty at Birangana Sati Sadhani State University, Assam. Earlier he had worked as Assistant Director in the 16th Finance Commission of India. His research interests include public finance, fiscal federalism, governance, health and development economics. He is particularly interested in translating rigorous research into policy. He has published in leading peer reviewed journals and has been involved in policy and research projects for a number of government institutions in India. He is especially interested in supporting early-career researchers from developing countries and promoting greater diversity and inclusion in the economics profession.
Tiffany Green is an associate professor in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Population Health Sciences. Dr. Green is a nationally recognized economist, population health scientist, and science communicator committed to reducing and eliminating racial/ethnic inequities in reproductive health outcomes. Her primary research agenda is motivated by a persistent unsolved puzzle: how and why Black people experience the worst reproductive health access and outcomes of any racial/ethnic group—and what innovative solutions might ameliorate these persistent inequities. Dr. Green is committed to training the next generation of physicians to understand and practice medicine through the lenses of reproductive equity and justice. She developed “Race in American Obstetrics and Gynecology”, one of the first US medical education courses to address the role of race in the development of American obstetrics and gynecology. Her expertise has been recognized with numerous awards, including being recognized as one of UW-Madison's Outstanding Women of Color, being named among 1,000 Inspiring Black Scientists in America by Cell Mentor, and recipient of the Future Female Innovator Maggie Award for her mentorship by the Office of the Governor of Virginia.