Wim Naude, Dean, Maastricht School of Management and Professor, Maastricht University,Adam Szirmai, Professorial Fellow United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and Social Research institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT); Professor of Development Economics, Maastricht University,Nobuya Haraguchi, Industrial Research Officer, United Nations Industrial Development Organization

Wim Naude holds the Chair in Business and Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets at the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics. He is also Dean of the Maastricht School of Management and a Research Fellow at IZA, the Institute for the Study of Labour, in Bonn, Germany. A graduate of the University of Warwick, he was previously Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT in Maastricht, Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER in Helsinki, Professor and Director of Research at North-West University in South Africa and Research Officer at the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.


Adam Szirmai is Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT and Professor of Development Economics at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance of Maastricht University. His research focuses on structural change, innovation and long-term economic development in developing countries. Jointly with Wim Naude and Micheline Goedhuys he is editor Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Development published by Oxford University Press in 2011 and with Wim Naude and Ludovico Alcorta editor of Pathways to Industrialization in the 21st Century published by Oxford University Press in 2013. A second edition of his textbook Socio-Economic Development is to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2015.

Nobuya Haraguchi is Industrial Research Officer at the Research, Statistics and Industrial Policy branch of UNIDO in Vienna. He led a research team for the production of UNIDO Industrial Development Report 2013, Sustaining Employment Growth: The Role of Manufacturing and Structural Change. He has published widely on structural change, patterns of manufacturing and industrial policy and practice. Before joining UNIDO, he taught macroeconomics at St. John's University in the United States. He holds a PhD from the University of London.

Aradhna Aggarwal, Wadhwani Foundation Policy Research Centre
Dante M. Aldrighi, University of São Paulo
Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas, Grenoble Ecole de Management
Renato P. Colistete, University of São Paulo
Eva Dantas, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research
Gaaitzen de Vries, University of Groningen
Michele Di Maio, University of Naples Parthenope
Abdul A. Erumban, University of Groningen
Vladimir Gimpelson, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Nobuya Haraguchi, UNIDO
Michiko Iizuka, UNU-MERIT
David Kaplan, University of Cape Town
Nagesh Kumar, UNESCAP
Boris Kuznetsov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Alejandro Lavopa, UNU-MERIT
Justin Yifu Lin, Peking University
Siming Liu, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China
Wim Naudé, UNU-MERIT and University of Maastricht
Frederick Nixson, Emeritus Professor, University of Manchester
Ruth Rama, National Research Council of Spain
Gorazd Rezonja, UNIDO
Adam Szirmai, UNU-MERIT
Marcel Timmer, University of Groningen
Ilya Voskoboynikov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
John Weiss, University of Bradford
Harry Wu, Hitotsubashi University
Miaojie Yu, Peking University
Ximing Yue, Renmin University of China
Yanyun Zhao, Renmin University of China
Andrei Yakovlev, Higher School of Economics, Moscow