The Anker Research Institute has built a global network of researchers from around the world that are trained in the Anker Methodology and author benchmark estimates in their areas of the globe as well as working on in-depth research.
Dr. Sandhya Barge has experience of more than three decades in the area of social science research. Her research activities have been on various social and developmental issues with expertise of quantitative and qualitative research methodology. With a Ph.D. in Demography from International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Bombay University. Her masters’ degree is in Anthropology from Pune University.
Yapo NGuessan has a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Kansas State University, USA. An Associate Professor at the National University of Lorougnon Guede in Cote d'Ivoire, he is also a Research Associate with the Ivoirian Center for Socio Economic Research. He has capitalized more than 20 years of successful experiences in agriculture and rural development policy design and monitoring of development projects.
Kabeer is an independent researcher and consultant, currently based in the United States. He has significant experience working on living wages since 2015, including two Anker Living Wage benchmark studies in Pakistan, on the methodology for updating living wage estimates, and on several reference value reports.
Rocío Espinosa Montiel holds an MSc in Economics & Econometrics from the University of Southampton. She has collaborated in the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL) and the National Commission for Social Protection in Health (Seguro Popular). She is currently a researcher at the Espinosa Yglesias Research Centre (CEEY).
Currently, Poverty Specialist (ETC) at the World Bank, based in Luanda Angola. PhD in Political Science at the University of São Paulo, and formerly a Post-Doctoral Researcher Fellow at Harvard University and Fundação Getúlio Vargas.
Dr.Kuriakose Mamkoottam, a sociologist, was Professor of Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations at the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University (1984-2011) and Ambedkar University Delhi (2011-2016). His areas of interest include Human Resource Management, Labour, Technological Change. He is interested in Anker methodology and actively engaged in assessing living wages.
Lykke E. Andersen holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. She has conducted research on development in Latin America for more than 25 years, and on living wages and living income since 2017. According to IDEAS/RePEc, she is ranked among the top 5% of female economists in the World.
Isidro Soloaga. Agricultural and Natural Resources Economist from the University of Maryland, Isidro is a professor at the Department of Economics-Universidad Iberoamericana-Mexico City and a Level III in the Mexican National System of Researchers. He has more than 30 years of experience in the analysis of economic development, poverty, income distribution, and the regional economy.
Manoj Thibbotuwawa is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS) with research interests in agriculture productivity, agribusiness value chains, agriculture trade, agriculture labour, food security, climate change and environmental and natural resource economics. He has more than 19 years of research experience at IPS.
An economist and researcher, Jem Marie explores topics on social mobility and development. She has a strong commitment to evolving knowledge; she has contributed insights to social mobility in rural areas and collaborated in researching living wage in the Philippines.
Nidhi Kaicker is an Assistant Professor of Management at Dr BR Ambedkar University Delhi. Her research interests include Analysis of Household Consumption Behaviour, Food Security, and Sustainable Finance. She has been associated with the Anker Research Institute since 2016, and has been a part of various living wage benchmarking studies in India.
Emma Blackmore is an independent consultant as well as a research associate of the International Institute for Environment and Development and ARI, based in Nairobi, Kenya. She has more than 14 years’ experience working on market governance, inclusive business, standards and certification, small-scale agriculture, informal markets, food systems, and Living Wages. Emma recently completed the Living Wage benchmark for Kericho, Kenya.
Dr. Lawrence Dacuycuy is the current Chair of the Social Science Division of the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP). He is a Full Professor and a member of the Society of University Fellows at De La Salle University. He also serves as a member of the Commission on Higher Education’s Technical Committee for Economics member.
Asad Sayeed is currently Director at the Collective of Social Science Research, a research and consulting organization based in Karachi, Pakistan. He has been associated with living wage estimates based on the Anker Methodology since 2015. Asad Sayeed holds a Ph.D in Economics from Cambridge University.
