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Carl McPherson is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a B.A. in economics from Williams College.

Alessandro Dell'Acqua is a master's student at Università Bocconi. He holds a BESS degree from Università Bocconi.

Ahmadou Mbaye is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brokings Institution. He is also vice-chancellor of University Cheikh Anta DIOP in Dakar, Senegal and a senior research associate at the Centre for Development Research (ZEF, University of Bonn, Germany). Additionally, he is director of the Laboratoire d’Analyse des Politiques de Developpement. He is also the director of the regional graduate program in climate change economics (including 10 countries). Mbaye holds a master's in economics from UCAD and a Ph.D. in economics from CERDI, University of Auvergne.

Abdoulaye Cisse is a Ph.D. student in agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a B.A. from Stanford University in economics.

Roberto Pinto is an assistant professor of finance at the Lancaster University Management School. He holds a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Naples Federico II in economics, as well as a master's in economics and finance, and a Ph.D. in finance from the Vienna Graduate School of Finance.

Alessio Piccolo is an assistant professor of finance at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University Bloomington. He holds a bachelor’s in economics from the University of Naples Federico II, and an M.Phil. and D.Phil. in economics from the University of Oxford.

Sebastian Dyrda is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto. He holds an M.A. in economics from the Warsaw School of Economics, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota.

Nathan Lane is an associate professor of economics at Oxford University and a tutorial fellow at Merton College, Oxford. He holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an M.A. in quantitative methods in the social sciences from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in economics from the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University.

Dani Rodrik is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Rodrik holds an A.B. from Harvard College in government and economics, and an M.P.A. and Ph.D. in economics Princeton University.

Réka Juhász is an assistant professor of economics at the University of British Columbia. She holds an M.A. in economics in the Corvinus University of Budapest Rajk László College for Advanced Studies, and an M.Sc. and Ph.D in economics from the London School of Economics.