Kara Reynolds is a Professor in the Department of Economics at American University. She studies the political economy of international trade policy and welfare impacts of globalization. Specific research interests include the World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement system, antidumping protection, Trade Adjustment Assistance, and the impact of globalization on innovation. Her current research project analyzes the determinants of trade policy preferences, and particularly why opposition to trade liberalization efforts seems to be growing in the United States and abroad.

Aditi Routh is an Economist in the Economic Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Her research focuses on payment behavior of consumers, the financially underserved population, implications of new age financial services for consumers, and financial education. She is also studying payment system preferences of small businesses in the U.S.

Aditi joined the Bank in June 2022, after earning her Ph.D. in Consumer Economics at University of Georgia, Athens. She also holds a M.A. in Economics from University of California, Riverside, and a B.A. in Economics from Jadavpur University, India.

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, specializing in open-economy macroeconomics, international finance, and machine learning applications. I completed my PhD in Economics from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.

At IIT Roorkee, I teach courses on international finance, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, with a focus on their applications in economics and public policy. I am passionate about mentoring PhD students and job market candidates, supporting them in their academic and professional journeys.

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I study macro-financial dynamics and develop computational and time-series econometric methods. My current work focuses on understanding the transmission of monetary policy, the role of commercial banks in propagating macro-financial shocks, and the shared dynamics of community banks in the U.S.

Punarjit Roychowdhury is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at the Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR, India. Formerly, he held tenured positions at the University of Nottingham and Indian Institute of Management, Indore. He holds a PhD in Economics from Southern Methodist University Primarily an applied microeconomist, his research interests lie in the fields of development and labor economics. His research papers have appeared in well-known international journals including Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, World Bank Economic Review, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Development Studies, World Development, Economics of Education Review among several others. He also writes for the popular press and his pieces have appeared in leading national dailies like HIndustan Times, Mint, Indian Express, MoneyControl, and Hindu BusinessLine.

Edward Martey is an Agricultural and Applied economist at the CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute with 12 years of professional experience. He is a 2022 Visiting Fellow, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Structural Transformation of African and Asian Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAAARS+) program. He received his BSc (Agricultural Economics), MPhil (Agricultural Economics), and PhD (Agricultural and Applied Economics) degrees from the University of Ghana and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, respectively. He is currently the Head of the social science and biometry section of CSIR-SARI. His research, development, agricultural economics, and operational work cover a range of policy-relevant questions related to poverty, development, and commercialization in Africa. Specifically, his recent research focuses on impact assessment of agricultural technologies, energy, digital financial services, agricultural and rural development, time poverty, and economic valuation using choice experiments.

Dr. Esther Magembe is an agricultural economist at Kibabii University Kenya, holding a Ph.D in agricultural economics and natural resources management from Moi University Kenya. Her research experiences include studying pastoral and agropastoral farming systems and riparian habitats protection. Her research interests cover environmental conservation and valuation, natural resources management and valuation, farming systems, food security among others. She is a member of African Association of Agricultural Economists, and Kenya DAAD scholars Association.

I am primarily a health economist who also does research in education, labor, sports, and a bit in environmental economics. My current research projects attempt to understand the effects of public policies on rise of new nicotine and tobacco products, measure the effects of education on later-life outcomes, and examine the hot hand hypothesis in sports.

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of St Andrews. Prior to joining in 2015, I received my PhD and an MSc in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics in France. I hold a BA in Economics, with minor in Environmental Studies, from Mount Allison University in Canada. My research is in applied microeconomics with a particular interest in education economics, as well as labour economics and development economics. Recent research projects fall broadly under two themes. The first studies the return to university degrees, with a focus on field of study. The second uses the evaluation of educational interventions to shed light on the processes through which education shapes human capital. This second thread currently involves collaboration with organizations running educational interventions in India, Tanzania and Bangladesh.

I completed a PhD in Global Health and Economics from Harvard and a postdoc at Stanford. My research lies at the intersection of applied micro and global health, with applications to healthcare policy in India.