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.

Mario Miranda is Professor of Agricultural, Environmental & Development Economics at The Ohio State University and Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. His research has focused on the modeling of stochastic dynamical systems in economics with application to international economic development, agricultural finance and insurance, agricultural and environmental policy, food security, international trade, commodity pricing and industrial organization. His research has produced one book, which has been adopted for courses offered by seven of the top ten ranked doctoral programs in Economics in the world and over 80 peer-reviewed articles, two of which are among the three most frequently cited articles on “agricultural insurance”. He has advised thirty doctoral students to completion, including two winners and two honorable mention recipients of the Applied and Agricultural Economics Association Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Professor Miranda served seven years as Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental & Development Economics at The Ohio State University. He has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and Computational Economics. He has also served as a consultant to the World Bank, U.S. Agency for International Development, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Food Policy Research Institute, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Chicago Board of Trade, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the International Water Management Institute, and numerous private corporations. He has made over 170 presentations to professional and academic audiences and has worked on major research projects or taught courses in Bolivia, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ghana, Honduras, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Peru, South Africa and Tanzania.

I am an Agricultural Economist and Research Associate (equivalent to a non-tenure-track assistant professor) at Cornell University, where I collaborate in the Equitable Agricultural Research Lab (led by Prof. Hale Ann Tufan). I am also a visiting scholar in the Food Systems Economics and Policy group at ETH Zurich (led by Prof. Eva Marie Meemken).

My research challenges assumptions about participatory research and farmers' engagement, revealing role and impact of farmers' knowledge in the process of adopting a new technology, technique or process.

My contributions span the academic fields of inclusive and gender-intentional method design, causal inference, intra-household research and food security studies. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, I analyze primary data from surveys, experiments, and interviews with farmers engaged in participatory research, at the household and intra-household level, alongside secondary data. In love with field work, I have conducted several primary data collections in Malawi, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Burkina Faso and Italy.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Georgia. My research focuses on the structural transformation of African economies, particularly how agricultural growth affects well-being and how labor shifts out of agriculture as economies develop. I hold a PhD in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University. Prior to my academic career, I worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, managing agricultural policy and data grants, and as an economist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. I also hold BS and MS degrees in Earth Systems from Stanford University.

Md Shahadath Hossain is an Instructional Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Houston. His research uses rigorous empirical methods to inform policies that reduce inequality of opportunity in healthcare access and human capital development.