Channing Arndt is a senior research fellow at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, UNU-WIDER. He has substantial research management experience including leadership of interdisciplinary teams. His programme of research has focused on poverty alleviation and growth, agricultural development, market integration, gender and discrimination, the implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, technological change, trade policy, aid effectiveness, infrastructure investment, energy and biofuels, climate variability, and the economic implications of climate change.

Finn Tarp is Director of UNU-WIDER and Coordinator of the Development Economics Research Group (DERG) at the University of Copenhagen. He is a leading international expert on issues of development strategy and foreign aid, with a sustained interest in poverty, income distribution, and growth. He has published widely in international academic journals alongside various books. He is a member of the World Bank Chief Economist's Council of Eminent Persons and is a resource person of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC).

Olu Ajakaiye, Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research
Olufunke A. Alaba, University of Cape Town
Channing Arndt, UNU-WIDER
Samuel Kobina Annim, University of Cape Coast
Ulrik Richardt Beck, University of Copenhagen
M. Azhar Hussain, Roskilde University
Afeikhena T. Jerome, FAO
E. Samuel Jones, University of Copenhagen
Raymond Elikplim Kofinti, University of Cape Coast
Vincent Leyaro, University of Dar es Salaam
Kristi Mahrt, UNU-WIDER
Gibson Masumbu, Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research
Richard Mussa, University of Malawi
Malokele Nanivazo, University of Kansas
Fiona Nattembo, International Food Policy Research Institute
Hina Nazli, International Food Policy Research Institute
Olanrewaju Olaniyan, University of Ibadan
Lars Peter Østerdal
Karl Pauw, International Food Policy Research Institute
Faly Rakotomanana, Household Survey Unit at the National Statistical Institute
Tiaray Razafimanantena, Centre de Recherches, d'Etudes et d'Appui l'Analyse Economique Madagascar
Vincenzo Salvucci, UNU-WIDER
Haruna Sekabira, University Goettingen
Nikolaj Siersbæk
Kenneth Simler, World Bank
David Stifel, Lafayette College
Finn Tarp, UNU-WIDER
Bjorn Van Campenhout, International Food Policy Research Institute
Edward Whitney, University of California, Davis
Tassew Woldehanna, Addis Ababa University