Wim Naude is a graduate from the University of Warwick. His research focuses on entrepreneurship spatial economics and the challenges of small island developing countries and fragile states. He has been member of a number of international networks and advisory bodies including the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), the Club de Madrid, and the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN). He has served on the Faculty of Brown University's International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) on technology entrepreneurship, and on UNU-EHS' Expert Working Group on Measuring Vulnerability. Previously, he has been a lecturer and research officer at the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford, and a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Oxford. He has published widely and has contributed to the World Development Report 2009 and the European Report on Development 2009. He is associate editor of Small Business Economics Journal.

Amelia U. Santos-Paulino has been a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER and at the University of Sussex's Institute of Development Studies and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on trade, macroeconomics, and development, and her work has been published in academic journals including the Economic Journal, Manchester School, Cambridge Journal of Economics, and World Development. At UNU-WIDER, she directed the projects on Fragility and Development, Southern Engines of Global Growth, and South-South Co-operation. She has served as a research economist in the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, and as a trade policy advisor to the Government of the Dominican Republic, and has been a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the World Bank. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Kent in the UK.

Mark McGillivray's previous positions include Chief Economist of the Australian Agency for International Development and Deputy Director of the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University. Professor McGillivray is also an Inaugural Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association, an honorary Professor of Development Economics at the University of Glasgow, a Research Associate of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative at the University of Oxford, and an External Fellow of the Centre for Economic Development and International Trade at the University of Nottingham. His main research interests are the allocation and effectiveness of foreign aid and measuring achieved human wellbeing. Mark is the recipient of a La Trobe University Distinguished Alumni Award. He is a contributor to the European Report on Development 2009 on Overcoming Fragility in Africa.

Sebnem Akkaya, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
Mina Baliamoune-Lutz, University of North Florida, USA
Sumon Kumar, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
David Carment, Carleton University, Canada
Lisa Chauvet, IRD, Paris, France
Paul Collier, University of Oxford, UK
Ghassan Dibeh, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon
Norbert Fiess, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
Ira N. Gang, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA
Sanjeev Gupta, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC, USA
Anke Hoeffler, University of Oxford, UK
Bartlomiej Kaminski, University of Maryland, College Park and The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
Mark McGillivray, Deakin University, Australia
S. Mansoob Murshed, The Hague, The Netherlands and University of Birmingham, UK
Wim Naudé, UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland
Gaël Raballand, The World Bank, Lusaka, Zambia
Yiagadeesen Samy, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, UNCTAD, Geneva, Switzerland
Stewart Prest, University of British Columbia, Canada
Myeong-Su Yun Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
Philip Verwimp, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium