Bachera Aktar is a Deputy Director at the BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh and a PhD candidate, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK. She is a health systems researcher with over 13 years’ experience implementing public health interventions and research in rural, urban, and humanitarian settings. She received the Emerging Voices for Global Health 2022 award as a promising health systems researcher. She is interested in urban displacement, refugees, and participatory action. Bachera is co-author of ‘Scarcity and Resilience in the Slums of Dhaka City, Bangladesh’ (2021, in Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of COVID-19, UCL Press).
Lorena Alcázar holds a BA in Economics (Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Peru), an Advanced Studies Degree in Public Policy Research (Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany), and a master’s degree and PhD in Economics (Washington University, St Louis, USA). She is a Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) and a member of the Steering Committee of Southern Voice. Previously, she was Professor at Universidad del Pacífico, an economist at the World Bank, and a visiting researcher at the Brookings Institution, USA. Lorena has conducted extensive research on development, gender, education, and the evaluation of social programmes.
Farah Al Shami is a development economist. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Arab Reform Initiative, leading its social protection programme. She has eight years’ experience working with civil society organisations (CSOs), academic institutes, and United Nations entities on advancing policy reforms in the Arab region. Her areas of expertise include conducting and managing interdisciplinary research, coordinating national and international advocacy efforts, facilitating professional consortia/communities, and leading capacity-building programmes. She holds an MA in Policy Economics (Williams College, USA), an MA in Economics (American University of Beirut), and a BS in Economics (Lebanese American University).
Benghong Siela Bossba is a Research Assistant at the Centre for Development Economics and Trade (CDET) at the Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI). She holds a BA in International Relations (Institute of Foreign Languages, IFL, Cambodia) and a LLB in English Language Based Bachelor of Law (Royal University of Law and Economics, RULE, Cambodia).
Matías Bianchi is Director of Asuntos del Sur, an Argentina-based think/do tank that fosters more inclusive, equal, and democratic societies in Latin America. He coordinates two consortia: Colabora.Lat, which designs collaborative governance models for post-pandemic democracies, and CILA (Cities in Action), which works to develop civic infrastructure in cities that seek to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Matías has an MSc from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po (Paris, France). He is an instructor at the University of Arizona and also researches democracy, governance, and technopolitics.
Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu is Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria. She obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She conducts research on economic development issues and is mainly interested in analysing the impact of policies on society and the economy at large. Margaret is a member of the Stockholm Environment Institute Science Advisory Council as well as a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. She is co‑chair of the International Technical Group for the Climate Action for Jobs Initiative. She is a member and scientific advisor of the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) network.
Florencia Coda is Project Manager at Asuntos del Sur. She has a degree in Political Science from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a master’s degree in Political Science from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (in progress). She is a university lecturer and her work focuses on women’s reproductive rights and citizen participation.
Jennifer Cyr is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Programmes in Political Science at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She researches and writes about representation, political identity, and institutional stability and change in Latin America; governance in a (post-)pandemic world; and qualitative and mixed methods. She has published two books and a wide variety of journal articles and book chapters. She has a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University, USA.
Ricardo Fort is a Peruvian economist with a PhD in Economic Development from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. He is currently a Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), where he works on projects related to territorial planning and the economic development of rural areas, as well as marginal urban neighbourhoods in several countries of the global South. He is the author of several books and academic articles on these subjects and has worked as a consultant for institutions such as the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), among others.
Helani Galpaya is CEO of LIRNEasia, Sri Lanka, a pro-poor, pro-market thinktank working on digital and infrastructure policy issues across the Asia-Pacific. She leads regional research on a range of topics such as policy barriers to meaningful digital access, and how to enable platform, data, and algorithmic governance so as to protect rights and enable inclusive, sustainable innovation. She engages in public discourse on policy issues related to digitalisation and development. She serves on the board of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and is a member of the Working Group on Innovation and Commercialization of the Global Partnership on AI.
James Georgalakis is an experienced practitioner and political sociologist who seeks to bridge the theory and practice of knowledge mobilisation. He is the Director of Evidence and Impact at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), helping to shape the Institute’s approach to strengthening evidence use and understanding research impact. His research relates to the role of networked behaviours in the use of research for global health. He is Director of the Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) Knowledge Translation project, led the Knowledge Translation in the Global South research project (IDRC) and directed the FCDO‑ESRC Impact Initiative for International Development Research.
David Gunawardana is a second-year BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics student at Warwick University, UK. He was an intern at LIRNEasia, Sri Lanka, where he helped write and research projects in development studies in the global South as well as researching evidence-based policies and their effectiveness.
Martin Henseler holds a PhD in Agricultural Science from the University of Hohenheim, Germany, focusing on agricultural economics. He worked as a researcher at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Sevilla, Spain, the Thünen Institute, Germany, and Le Havre Normandy University, France. Martin works as an independent researcher in France and is a Resource Person in the Modelling Policies and Impact Analysis (MPIA) group for the global research network Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP). Martin mainly works on research in agriculture, environment, and development.
Muhammad Riaz Hossain has a BA and MA in Social Anthropology. He specialises in ethnographic and qualitative research. He has been working as a qualitative researcher since 2013 at the BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh. His expertise lies in developing qualitative tools, conducting sessions on sensitive topics, qualitative data management and analysis, and giving training on ATLAS-TI software and report writing. He also conducts training sessions on qualitative research. Riaz has experience in intervention research, mixed methods research, programme evaluation, and process documentation research.
Gayani Hurulle is a Senior Research Manager at LIRNEasia, Sri Lanka, where she studies social protection, and digital economy, policy, and regulation in South and Southeast Asia. She is also a Consultant with the World Bank’s Social Protection and Labour Practice. In her work, Gayani has led mixed methods research projects, supported the drafting of national policies and regulations, and facilitated capacity-building programmes for government. She has a Master of Public Policy degree from the National University of Singapore and a BSc in Economics from the University of London.
Ignacio F. Lara has a BA from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, an MA in Markets and Institutions of the Global System from the Postgraduate School of Economics and International Relations, Italy, and a PhD in Institutions and Politics from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italy. He is currently Chief of Staff of the vice-presidency of the Generalitat Valenciana, Spain, and he lectures in diverse MA programmes in Italy and Argentina. He also has extensive work experience in the field of public administration and with projects with socio-political impact in Latin American non-governmental organisations.
Ramos E. Mabugu is Professor in Economics at Sol Plaatje University, South Africa. He is also a Research Fellow at the global research network Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) at Laval University, Canada and Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He earned his PhD in Economics from Gothenburg University, Sweden. He has consulted widely on internationally funded projects predominantly in applied development. Before his current position, he was the Head of Research Division at the Financial and Fiscal Commission, South Africa and also an academic at the universities of Pretoria, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Hélène Maisonnave is Professor of Economics at Le Havre Normandy University, France, specialising in development economics. Previously, she was the Research Director of the Modelling Policies and Impact Analysis (MPIA) group for the global research network Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) at Laval University, Canada. She also worked as a researcher at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Seville, Spain in the Environment and Climate Change Unit.
Albert Makochekanwa is an economist with over 20 years’ experience in economics and social science issues and is currently a Professor in the Department of Economics and Development at the University of Zimbabwe. He teaches undergraduate and Masters of Science in Economics students and supervises thesis research for both master’s and PhD students. Albert holds a taught PhD in Economics from the University of Pretoria, South Africa and has worked extensively in Africa, specifically Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, and Ethiopia. He has published several journal papers and book chapters and has contributed to several studies on economic issues in Africa.
Sameen Nasar is a Research Fellow at the BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh. He works on humanitarian health, climate change adaptation, mental health and wellbeing, community health workers and health systems, and male sexual and reproductive health. Previously, he has worked on projects on women’s digital inclusion and economic empowerment, the health-seeking behaviour of forcibly displaced populations, sexual and reproductive health education, and food security and nutrition. He is a quantitative and mixed methods researcher and has experience in applying quantitative and qualitative research methods in the areas of public health research, financial technology, consulting, management information systems, and economics.
Ana Carolina Ogando is Research Coordinator at Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). Her research interests include gender, qualitative and participatory methodologies, action research, and participatory governance. Since joining WIEGO in 2012, she has worked closely with waste pickers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil on capacity building for membership-based organisations centred on raising gender awareness and occupational health and safety. She also led the qualitative research component of WIEGO’s Covid-19 Crisis and the Informal Economy Study. She is based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and holds a PhD in Political Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Andrea Ordóñez Llanos is Executive Director of Southern Voice, a network of over 60 thinktanks from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia, leveraging Southern evidence and analysis to promote fair global development debates. An economist by training, Andrea was previously Research Director at Grupo FARO, a thinktank in Ecuador. Her main research interests are social policy, public finance, and financing for development and international cooperation. She is a member of numerous advisory boards and international committees. Her aim is to ensure that new voices and ideas from the global South are heard across regions.
Sabina Faiz Rashid is a Professor and Dean of the BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh. She is a Medical Anthropologist with over 28 years’ experience in ethnographic and qualitative research and capacity building, with a focus on urban slums, adolescents, and marginalised groups in Bangladesh. She has written over 90 publications and is the lead author of a recent book chapter ‘Scarcity and Resilience during Covid-19: Invisible Lives of Adolescents and Youth in Urban Slums in Dhaka City, Bangladesh’ (2021, in Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of COVID-19, UCL Press).
Lorena Alcázar es licenciada en Economía (Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Perú), tiene un diploma de Estudios Avanzados en Investigación de Políticas Públicas (Instituto de Economía Mundial de Kiel, Alemania), y un máster y un doctorado en Economía (Washington University, St Louis, EE. UU.). Es investigadora sénior del GRADE y miembro del Comité Directivo de Southern Voice. Anteriormente, fue profesora en la Universidad del Pacífico, economista del Banco Mundial e investigadora invitada de la Brookings Institution (EE. UU.). Lorena ha realizado numerosas investigaciones sobre temáticas tales como desarrollo, género, educación y evaluación de programas sociales.
Matías Bianchi es Director de Asuntos del Sur, un laboratorio de ideas y actividades con sede en Argentina que promueve sociedades más inclusivas, igualitarias y democráticas en América Latina. Coordina dos consorcios: Colabora.Lat, que diseña modelos de gobernanza colaborativa para democracias pospandémicas, y Ciudades en Acción (CILA), que trabaja para desarrollar infraestructura cívica en ciudades que pretenden alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio. Matías es licenciado de la Oxford University y doctor en Ciencias Políticas de Sciences Po (París, Francia). Es profesor en la University of Arizona e investiga sobre democracia, gobernanza y tecnopolítica.
Florencia Coda es Gerente de Proyectos de Asuntos del Sur. Es licenciada en Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, con un máster en Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (en curso). Da conferencias universitarias y su trabajo se centra en los derechos reproductivos de la mujer y la participación ciudadana.
Jennifer Cyr es Profesora Adjunta de Ciencias Políticas y Directora de Programas de Posgrado en Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Investiga y escribe sobre representación, identidad política y estabilidad y cambios institucionales en América Latina, gobernanza en un mundo (pos)pandémico y métodos cualitativos y mixtos. Ha publicado dos libros y una gran variedad de artículos en revistas y capítulos de libros. Es doctora en Ciencias Políticas de la Northwestern University (EE. UU.).
Ricardo Fort es un economista peruano con un doctorado en Desarrollo Económico de la Universidad de Wageningen (Países Bajos). Actualmente, es Investigador Sénior del Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE), donde trabaja en proyectos relacionados con la planificación territorial y el desarrollo económico de zonas rurales, así como de barrios urbanos marginales en varios países del Sur Global. Es autor de varios libros y artículos académicos sobre estos temas y ha trabajado como consultor para instituciones como el Banco Mundial, las Naciones Unidas y la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO), entre otras.
James Georgalakis es un experimentado profesional y sociólogo político que trabaja por aunar la teoría con la práctica de movilización del conocimiento. Es Director de Evidencia e Impacto del Institute of Development Studies (IDS), y contribuye a dar forma al enfoque de dicho instituto para reforzar el uso de la evidencia y comprender el impacto de la investigación. Su investigación está relacionada con el papel que cumplen las actitudes hacia el uso de redes para la investigación en materia de salud a nivel mundial. Es Director del proyecto de traducción de conocimiento Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE), lideró el proyecto de investigación de traducción de conocimiento en el Sur Global y dirigió la Impact Initiative for International Development Research del Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office y del Economic and Social Research Council (FCDO-ESRC).
Ignacio F. Lara es licenciado de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, y tiene un máster en Mercados e Instituciones del Sistema Global de la Escuela de Postgrado en Economía y Relaciones Internacionales, Italia, y un doctorado en Instituciones y Política por la Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italia. Actualmente es Jefe de Gabinete de la Vicepresidencia de la Generalitat Valenciana, España, e imparte conferencias en diversos programas de máster en Italia y Argentina. También cuenta con una amplia experiencia laboral en el ámbito de la administración pública y con proyectos de impacto sociopolítico en organizaciones latinoamericanas no gubernamentales.
Andrea Ordóñez Llanos es Directora Ejecutiva de Southern Voice, una red de más de 60 laboratorios de ideas de África, América Latina y el Caribe y Asia, que aprovecha la evidencia y el análisis del Sur Global para promover debates justos sobre el desarrollo a nivel mundial. Formada como economista, Andrea fue anteriormente Directora de Investigación del Grupo FARO, un laboratorios de ideas de Ecuador. Sus principales intereses de investigación son la política social, las finanzas públicas y la financiación del desarrollo y la cooperación internacional. Andrea es miembro de numerosos consejos de asesoría y comités internacionales. Su objetivo es garantizar que se escuche a las nuevas voces e ideas del Sur Global en todas las regiones.
James Georgalakis est un sociologue politique qui cherche à faire le lien entre la théorie et la pratique de la mobilisation des connaissances. Il est le directeur de Evidence and Impact [Données probantes et impact] à l'Institute of Development Studies (IDS), qui contribue à façonner l'approche de l'Institut pour renforcer l'utilisation des données probantes et comprendre l'impact de la recherche. Ses recherches portent sur le rôle des comportements en réseau dans l'utilisation de la recherche pour la santé mondiale. Il est directeur du projet d'application des connaissances Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) [Covid-19, des réponses pour l’équité], a dirigé le projet de recherche sur l'application des connaissances dans les pays du Sud et a dirigé l’Impact Initiative for International Development Research [initiative d'impact pour la recherche sur le développement international] du Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office-Economic and Social Research Council (FCDO-ESRC).
Andrea Ordóñez Llanos est directrice exécutive de Southern Voice, un réseau de plus de 60 groupes de réflexion d'Afrique, d'Amérique latine, des Caraïbes et d'Asie, qui s'appuient sur les données et analyses dans les pays du Sud pour promouvoir des débats équitables sur le développement mondial. Économiste de formation, Andrea était auparavant directrice de recherche au Grupo FARO, un groupe de réflexion en Équateur. Ses principaux domaines de recherche sont la politique sociale, les finances publiques, le financement du développement et la coopération internationale. Elle est membre de nombreux conseils consultatifs et comités internationaux. Son objectif est de veiller à ce que les nouvelles voix et idées des pays du Sud soient entendues dans toutes les régions du monde.
فرح الشامي خبيرة اقتصادية في مجال السياسات والتنمية. هي حالياً زميلة رئيسية في مبادرة الإصلاح العربي وتدير برنامج الحماية الاجتماعية الخاص بالمبادرة. لديها أكثر من ثماني سنوات من الخبرة، حيث عملت مع منظمات المجتمع المدني والمعاهد الأكاديمية وكيانات تابعة للأمم المتحدة على النهوض بإصلاحات السياسات العامة في المنطقة العربية. تشمل مجالات خبرتها إجراء البحوث وإدارتها وتحريرها، وتنسيق جهود الدعوة والمناصرة على منصات وطنية وإقليمية ودولية، وتيسير الائتلافات/الجماعات المهنية، وقيادة برامج تمكينية. هي حاصلة على درجة الماجستير في اقتصاد السياسات والتنمية الاقتصادية من جامعة ويليامز كما على درجة الماجستير في الاقتصاد من الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت ، كولج .ودرجة البكالوريوس في الاقتصاد من الجامعة اللبنانية الأميركية