Kanchana is an Economist by training, with research interests in environmental and natural resource economics, agricultural economics, and poverty analysis.  She won the First Prize for the Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development (ORD) in the Global Development Awards and Medals Competition of the Global Development Network (GDN) in 2014. She also received the Presidentia...

Katharina Michaelowa is Professor of Political Economy and Development at the University of Zurich and at the Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) at ETH and University of Zurich. Her research focuses on the effectiveness of development cooperation as well as on the effectiveness of developing countries' own policies, especially in the social sector. She also examines the r...

Loredana Polezzi is Professor of Translation Studies at Cardiff University and one of the Co-Investigators on the AHRC-funded projects Transnationalizing Modern Languages and Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Global Challenges. She is the co-editor of the leading international journal The Translator and the current president of IATIS – The International Association for Trans...

Mariana is a historian,  currently pursuing a PhD in Political and Social Studies in UNAM, and holds a Master in Latin American Studies also at the National University of Mexico, UNAM.

She has focused on studying the relationship between migration, culture, and belonging. Currently his doctoral research is on migration and Latin American literature from the space turn perspect...

Michael Tierney is the George and Mary Hylton Professor of Government and International Relations and the Director of the Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations at the College of William & Mary.  His research focuses on international political economy, international organizaitons, and the ...

Mohammad Moniruzzaman is affiliated with International Migration research Centre (IMRC) in Canada. His broader research interest includes economic and environmental migration, migration and food security interlinkages, tools and metrics of food security assessment, modeling household food security. His professional and academic background is multidisciplinary and spans across the disciplines...

Nisha Arunatilake is Director of Research at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, and heads the Labour, Employment and Human Resource Development unit. She has extensive post-doctoral experience in conducting policy-related economic research in labour market analysis, education, public finance and health. She holds a BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics with summa cum laude from ...

Rémi Bazillier is a Professor of Economics at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University and research affiliate at the Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne (CES-CNRS). He is the director of the Master of Development Economics and professor in charge of international relations at the Sorbonne School of Economics. He is also member of the scientific council of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies...