Colombia

Luisa Fernanda Bernat Díaz is a specialist in Gender and Labor Economics, currently serving as the Coordinator of Analytics and Continuous Improvement at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá.  Her research agenda is deeply committed to understanding structural inequalities in Latin America. Dr. Bernat focuses on critical issues such as occupational segregation, wage differentials, and the entrepreneurial gender gap. Her work aims to identify and address the economic barriers women face in the labor market. 

Ecuador

Sebastián Burgos Dávila, an Ecuadorian economist, specializes in impact assessment and applied social analysis. He has conducted research for the World Bank, ECLAC, UNICEF, and other institutions on issues of multidimensional poverty, the labor market, education, and food consumption.

Ethiopia 

Shemelis Kebede Hundie has a BA in Economics and an MSc in Economic Policy Analysis. He is a skilled survey programmer, individual consultant, researcher, and university lecturer, contributing to economic research and analysis through his diverse expertise.

Indonesia 

Ibnu Mundzir is a development practitioner with 20 years of experience in program development and evaluation across sectors such as sustainable livelihoods, natural resource management, and community-based programs. He holds a master's degree in Community Psychology and Social Change from Pennsylvania State University. He co-founded Yayasan Aceh Hijau (www.yayasanacehhijau.org ), a CSO based in Aceh, Indonesia, working on local capacity strengthening and promoting sustainable development. 

Malawi

Michael Msukuma holds a Master of Science in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, completed through the Collaborative Master’s Programme with the University of Pretoria and sixteen partner universities across Sub‑Saharan Africa. His graduate training specialized in agricultural policy analysis, applied econometrics and quantitative research methods, including project management, monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL).

Malawi

Mirriam Matita has a PhD in Economics from the University of Malawi.  She is also academic staff at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) in Malawi. Her research interests include the application of microeconomics in agriculture policy, commercialization, social protection, and poverty analysis.

Netherlands/ Nigeria

Akinyinka Akinyoade, PhD Development Studies, possesses about two decades of research experience in the fields of Migration, Entrepreneurship and Business History, Diffusion of Reproductive Behavior, Decentralization for Public Services Delivery, and Productive Employment. He is a Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre Leiden in The Netherlands. 

South Africa

Jabulile Monnakgotla is a Junior Research Fellow at the Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town. She holds a Master’s degree in Economic Science from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Thailand

Kiriya Kulkolkarn holds a PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University. She specializes in labour economics and development economics, with research spanning labour market transformation, green industrial change, and social protection. Her recent work focuses on how structural shifts, such as the transition to electric vehicles and national decarbonization policies, affect workers, SMEs, and vulnerable groups in Thailand. 

Vietnam

Do Quynh Chi has an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge (2004) and a PhD in Work and Organizational Studies from the University of Sydney (2011). She is currently the Co-founder of the Research Center for Employment Relations (ERC) and Director of Living Wage Lab, an initiative by ERC to develop solutions to close the living wage gaps. She has been working with the Anker Methodology since 2015 and has conducted the Anker living wage assessments for all regions of Vietnam.