Edward Miguel, coauthor with Raymond Fisman of Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations, is associate professor of economics and director of the Center of Evaluations for Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 2000. He earned S.B. degrees in both Economics and Mathematics from MIT, and received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow.

Ted's main research focus is African economic development. He has conducted field work in Kenya, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and India. Ted is a Faculty Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Associate Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, recipient of the 2005 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and winner of the 2005 Kenneth J. Arrow Prize awarded annually by the International Health Economics Association for the Best Paper in Health Economics.

 

William Easterly is the author of The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (MIT Press, 2001) and The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. He is Professor of Economics at New York University (Joint with Africa House), Codirector of NYU's Development Research Institute, visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Nonresident Fellow of the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC.

Olu Ajakaiye is Research Director at the African Economic Research Consortium

Ken Banks has spent the last fifteen years working on projects in Africa and is the founder of kiwanja.net. He divides his time between Cambridge and Stanford University.

Robert Bates is Eaton Professor in the Department of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of When Things Fell Apart.

Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Director of the Oxford Center for the Study of African Economies. His book, The Bottom Billion won the 2008 Lionel Gelber Prize.

Rachel Glennerster is Executive Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Rosamond Naylor is Senior Fellow at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. She is the director of the Program on Food Security and the Environment.

Smita Singh is Director of the Global Development Program at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

David N. Weil is Professor of Economics at Brown University and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He is co-director of the NBER project on African development success.

Jeremy M. Weinstein is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for African Studies at Stanford University. He is author of Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence.