Dr. Sheetal Chhabria

Dr. Sheetal Chhabria is a historian of South Asia whose research and teaching focus on the production of poverty and inequality. She completed her PhD from Columbia University & her research has been funded by the Social Science Research Council, the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, and the American Historical Association. Her first book, Making the Modern Slum: the Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay (University of Washington, 2019), won the American Historical Association’s 2020 John F. Richards Prize for South Asian History.

Her current research is focused on the imbrications of caste and capital in the subcontinent’s long history and the failures of decolonization, and has written about the role of colonialism in shaping the region’s health infrastructure.

Prof. Steve Keen

Professor Keen is a Distinguished Research Fellow at UCL, the author of The New Economics: A Manifesto (2021) Debunking Economics (2011) and Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis? (2017), and one of the few economists to anticipate the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, for which he received the Revere Award from the Real World Economics Review. His main research interests are developing the complex systems approach to macroeconomics, and the economics of climate change. He is crowdfunding his non-mainstream research into economics via Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/ProfSteveKeen.

Lebogang Mulaisi

Lebogang Mulaisi is the Labour Market Policy Coordinator at COSATU, where she coordinates the implementation of COSATU’s labour market policy. She is an EXCO and MANCO member at the National Economic Development and Labour Council (NEDLAC) and represents organised labour in the labour market chamber of NEDLAC. She serves as a steering committee member for the Presidential Health Compact and chairs Pillar One of the Compact: Human Resources for Health. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) Degree in Economics and a Master of Commerce Degree in Development Economics.

Prof. Howard Stein

Howard Stein is a development economist and Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the Dept. of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Beyond the World Bank Agenda, An Institutional Approach to Development (University of Chicago, Paperback edition, 2015) which among other things explores the historical and theoretical roots of structural adjustment in Africa along with more than a dozen other books and edited collections.

He was a Lecturer in the Economics Department of the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 1980-82 while working on his Ph.D. on national economic planning. Since then he has done research in a variety of African countries focusing on economic development issues like foreign aid, finance and banking, neoliberalism, the methodology of Randomized Controlled Trials, health and gender, climate change, industrial policy, export processing zones, agricultural policy, poverty and rural property right transformation, income inequality, Chinese economic relations and the consequences of the dominance of neoclassical economics.

Kastarine Kgola

Kastarine comes from Orange Farm, in the South of Johannesburg, and is a recent college graduate from the Big Fish School of Digital Film Production in Cape Town. During the course of her academic career, she managed to accrue nearly two years of work experience by directing experimental films, social justice documentaries, commercials and promotional videos. Kastarine had the privilege to work with Xoliswa Sithole, Meg Rickards, Paul Egan, Weaam Williams and Lauren Groenewald.

Two of the films she produced were part of the Encounters Documentary Film Festival while one was on the Lens Flare Film Festival. In 2017, Kastarine won the Nest Newcomer Award at the 48-hour film project in Johannesburg with the SOKAA film production.

Currently working as Media and Communications Assistant for AfriDocs at the Pan-African documentary film production Social Transformation and Empowerment Projects (STEPS), Kastarine is a social justice activist with the aim to change lives through storytelling.

Dr. Yannis Dafermos

Yannis Dafermos is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at SOAS University of London. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance and a Fellow at the Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM). His research interests include financial macroeconomics, climate change and finance, ecological macroeconomics, climate policies and economic development, and inequality. He has worked as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator in projects funded, amongst others, by INSPIRE/ClimateWorks Foundation, Rebuilding Macroeconomics/ESRC and the Network for Social Change. He is a Committee member of the Post-Keynesian Economics Society (PKES) and a Council member of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE).

Dr. Jason Musyoka

I'm a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Pretoria’s Human Economy Programme, and a member of the Advisory Board, the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship. I hold a Ph.D from the University of KwaZulu Natal South Africa. PhD thesis (completed in 2016) focused on new perspectives on wealth distribution among black South Africans. I also hold a Masters in Development studies from the University Of KwaZulu Natal South Africa.

At the University of Pretoria where I’m currently based, I continue to undertake academic research and publications. I lecture development studies module in the honours programme, at the Anthropology department (University of Pretoria). I am also an external examiner and co-supervisor at the University of KwaZulu Natal’s Graduate School of Business and the Graduate School of Government Leadership, University of the Northwest. I have been a guest lecturer (Masters) on Regional and Local Economic Development, the Graduate School of Business and Leadership, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. I am a regular Radio commentator on current affairs, and a regular analysis contributor to print media.

Dr. Njeri Mwagiru

Njeri is a Senior Futurist at the Institute for Futures Research (IFR), University of Stellenbosch Business School. Her work focuses on strengthening capabilities of individuals, organisations and countries in Africa, to navigate complexity and uncertainty, to realise long-term goals and visions. Her research interests include leadership, organisational performance, knowledge, gender and diversity, inclusivity and transformation.

Njeri has a Masters in International Relations and holds a PhD in Business Administration. She is also co-founder of a research and business development organisation that facilitates long-term institutional partnership building.She has worked with a range of organisations in several capacities and contexts including research; higher education teaching and skills building; executive management training; policy, strategy and programme development; short course design, planning and delivery; project management and coordination; evaluation of initiatives for valued business, public sector, and international partners.Her vocation is to support knowledge sharing and exchange, to facilitate integrated strategic planning, and enhance evidence-based decision making and high performance to achieve desired futures.

Dr. Sarah Stevano

Sara Stevano is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at SOAS University of London. She is a development and feminist political economist specialising in the study of the political economy of work, food and social reproduction. Working at the intersections between political economy, development economics, feminist economics and anthropology, Sara takes an interdisciplinary approach to theories and methods. Her work focuses on Africa, with primary research experience in Mozambique and Ghana.

Prof. Fadhel Kaboub

Fadhel Kaboub is an associate professor of economics at Denison University, and the president of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He has held research affiliations with the Levy Economics Institute, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is an expert on Modern Monetary Theory, the Green New Deal, and the Job Guarantee. His work focuses on public policies to enhance monetary and economic sovereignty in the Global South, build resilience, and promote equitable and sustainable prosperity. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Le Monde, and France 24. You can follow him on Twitter @FadhelKaboub and @GISP_Tweets

Prof. Michael Sachs

Michael Sachs is Adjunct Professor at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, where he leads the Public Economy’s Project. Prof Sachs teaches at the Wits School of Economics and Finance, and is the Deputy Chair of the Finance Fiscal Commission.

Prof. Sunanda Sen

Prof. Sen is from Jawaharlal Nehru University where she was a Professor of Economics. In 1994, she held the Joan Robinson Memorial Lectureship at Cambridge University, and she is a life fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She has written many books and articles of which the recent one include "The Changing Face of Imperialism: Colonies to Contemporary Capitalism" (ed) by Sunanda Sen and Cristina Marcuzzo.

She is currently working on colonialism, race, migration, Financialisation and labour.

Michelle Groenewald

Michelle Meixieira Groenewald is currently a lecturer at the North West University, in South Africa. She is a contributor for a forthcoming book by Manchester University Press on Diversifying, Decolonising and Democratizing Economics. She holds an MSc in Political Economy of Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) from the University of London, and a MCom in Economics from the North West University. She was also the recipient of the Chevening Scholarship. Her research interests include political economy, decolonial thought and curriculum reform of economics education.

Dr. Andrew Mearman

Dr. Andrew Mearman is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Leeds University Business School. Dr Mearman is a leading authority on teaching heterodox economics and advocate for pluralist pedagogy.

Dr. Emmanuel Ojo

Dr Emmanuel Ojo is a senior lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand's School of Education, Division of Social and Economic Sciences in Johannesburg. He is an active researcher and publishes in the field of higher education, including in the field of economics education, sustainability, and interdisciplinary studies.

Ihsaan Bassier

Ihsaan is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His dissertation work focuses on monopsony, with research interests in the domain of labour and political economy of development, and applications to inequality and unemployment. His approach is based on micro-econometric analysis with a regional focus on South Africa. Recently, Ihsaan has carried out research work for the Presidency and SALDRU (UCT) on social grants, employment and poverty under Covid-19. He has been involved in the #PayTheGrants campaign where advocacy work is being done on social grants and a basic income guarantee. He has also taught Microeconomics courses giving focus to heterodox and social justice perspectives.

Dr. Lyn Ossome

Lyn Ossome is the Senior Research Specialist and Feminist Economics Lead at the IEJ. Previously, Lyn was a Senior Research Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University. She received her PhD in Political Studies from Wits University. She specialises in feminist political economy and feminist political theory, with research interests and numerous publications in gendered labour, land and agrarian studies, the modern state and the political economy of gendered violence. She has been a visiting scholar at the National Chiao Tung University, Wits University, and Visiting Presidential Professor at Yale University. Lyn also serves as a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg and contributes to several boards including the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA Network), the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).

Dr. Guy Standing

Guy Standing is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London and a founding member and honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), a non-governmental organisation that promotes a basic income for all.

Nathan Taylor

Nathan Taylor, an organiser in the #PayTheGrants campaign & current UBIG-focused research associate at the Institute of Economic Justice

Prof. Almaz Zelleke

Almaz Zelleke is Professor of Practice in Political Science at New York University, Shanghai, where she teaches political science and comparative political economy. Her articles on basic income, distributive justice, welfare policy, and feminist political theory have been published in Basic Income Studies, Political Quarterly, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, Policy and Politics, Review of Social Economy, and Journal of Socio-Economics. She holds a PhD in political science from Harvard University.

Akosua Keseboa Darkwah

Akosua K. Darkwah is Associate Professor of Sociology and current head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Ghana where she has taught for the last two decades. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses primarily on the ways in which global economic policies and practices reconfigure women’s work in the Ghanaian context. She is currently involved in a multi-country study funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) that explores the impact of COVID-19 on actors in the Ghanaian food system. Prof. Darkwah’s work has been published in a range of peer reviewed journals including Women's Studies International Forum and the International Development Planning Review. She serves as a committee member on the British International Studies Association’s Political Economy prize and has recently joined the US based African Studies Review's editorial board. In addition to her life as an academic, Akosua Darkwah devotes time to the cause of women serving as Deputy Convenor of the Network for Women's Rights, Ghana's leading women's rights organisation.

Odile Mackett

Odile Mackett is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand’s School of Governance. Her PhD research focuses on the International Labour Organisation’s Decent Work Agenda and the implications the traditional framing of ‘work’ is likely to have for gender equality in the labour market; given the different types of activities men and women engage in on a daily basis.More generally, her research interests include social security, which is closely linked to access to the labour market, and the importance this has for poverty and inequality outcomes. Current ongoing projects include an investigation of household composition changes, the effects thereof on labour market attachment, and its implications for the efficacy of South Africa’s social security programmes.

Dr. Smriti Rao

Smriti Rao is Professor of Economics and Global Studies, Assumption University and an Affiliated Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University. Smriti does research in Feminist Economics, Labor Economics and Development Economics.

Dr. Debra Shepherd

Debra Shepherd is a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University (SU), where she has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in microeconomics and econometrics since 2013. She is also a researcher with the Research on Socio-Economic Policy (RESEP) group based at Stellenbosch University, and a STIAS Iso Lomso and Radcliffe Institute research fellow. Her recent publications include the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute report “The Economic Cost of LGBT Stigma and Discrimination in South Africa” and chapters in The Politics and Governance of Basic Education: A Tale of Two South African Provinces (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Assessment of Reading in International Studies (Routledge, 2019).

Prof. Akua Britwum

Akua Opokua Britwum is an Associate Professor at the Department of Labour and Human Resource Studies at the University of Cape Coast and previously served as the Director of the Centre for Gender Research, Advocacy and Documentation at the same university. Prof. Britwum serves as a reviewer for several journals and is currently on Editorial Boards of the Global Labour Journal and Oguaa Journal of Social Sciences and an advisory board member of International Review of Social History. She has researched and published in gender and labour relations and is currently undertaking studies on digital uptake and social reproduction boundary wars in Ghana’s agriculture as well as 75 years of trade unionism in Ghana.

Nancy Kachingwe

Nancy Kachingwe is a freelance consultant based in Harare specialising in Gender, Public Policy and Advocacy. She has over two decades experience in international and regional development NGOs in Brussels, Harare, Accra and Johannesburg on a range of development policy issues including trade and globalisation, regional integration, land rights, women’s empowerment and climate change—with particular focus on influencing policy and strengthening civil society and movement building. She now provides policy and advocacy support to NGOs including training, facilitation, analysis and programme formulation with a feminist political economy lens. She is a founding member of South Feminist Futures.

Dr. Sirisha Naidu

Dr. Sirisha Naidu is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Affiliate Faculty in the Race, Ethnicity and Gender Studies Department at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA. Dr. Naidu earned a Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA and a B.A. at Stella Maris College, Chennai, India. Her research is on issues related to agrarian change, environmental justice, and women’s labor and work. She teaches courses on economic development, political economy of the environment, and feminist political economy. She has published in many peer review journals and popular media outlets, and strongly believes in the value of public engagement.

Ditebogo Lebea

Ditebogo Lebea is passionate, ambitious and driven young woman with extensive experience working with young people from all over the world on advocacy issues and policy making. She is most passionate about climate change and climate justice, as well as youth advocacy given the detrimental effects of climate change on humanity and the absence of young people at decision making tables.

Ditebogo currently holds an undergraduate degree at the University of the Witwatersrand majoring in Political Science and Marketing and is pursuing a postgraduate qualification in Sustainable Development at Stellenbosch University.

She currently works at the Youth Programmes of the South African Institute of International Affairs (Youth@SAIIA) as a Programme Associate. Ditebogo possesses extensive experience in international Climate Change negotiations, having attended COP 22 to COP 25; COP 25 having attended as a junior negotiator. Ditebogo is also part of a team of young climate activists who are working on developing a South African Youth Climate Action Plan.

Ditebogo is committed to sustainability, and positive social and environmental impact.

Dr. Gregor Semieniuk

Gregor Semieniuk (Ph.D., Economics, New School for Social Research, 2015) is Assistant Research Professor at PERI and the Department of Economics at UMass Amherst. His research focuses on the energy and resource requirements of global economic growth and on the political economy of rapid, policy-induced structural change that is required for the transition to a low carbon economy. In the former project, Gregor harnesses historical data to critique IPCC and other scenarios of future economic growth and climate change mitigation that rely strongly on energy efficiency measures to both grow fast and deliver unprecedented energy savings. In the latter Gregor examines the role of government and private investors in financing the investments required for rapid low carbon energy transitions as well as the impact of mitigation policy on the financial system.

Gregor also has a keen interest in the measurement and characterisation of inequality, in particular as it applies to the ongoing low-carbon transition. Gregor is currently on leave from his Senior Lecturer position at the Department of Economics of SOAS University of London. He is also affiliated with the Institute of Innovation and Public Policy Purpose at University College London and the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) of the University of Sussex.

Dr. Richard Munang

Dr. Richard Munang is currently the Africa Regional Climate Change Coordinator at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). He is responsible for guiding the actualization of UNEP’s climate resilient development strategy for Africa.

He has over 16 years of relevant and progressive working experiences targeting key regional and global issues of climate change policy, environmental management, sustainable development especially poverty reduction, clean energy, resource efficiency and food security from the lens of accelerated economic growth in Africa. With rich knowledge, diversified experience, policy formulation and sustainability of projects amongst others, Dr. Munang has guided several publications to inform Africa’s Climate Change development policies and negotiation positions at both global and regional levels.

He has been involved in enhancing skills retooling of youth through a mentorship tool he founded called Innovative volunteerism which is a structured innovative approach to guide and inspire youth to turn their passion into profits through driving climate action enterprises. He has participated in a wide variety of research projects and has published over 500 articles in both international peer reviewed journal and magazines. He is the author of the book –Making Africa work through the Power of Innovative Volunteerism.

He has won many awards including- Africa Green Champion Award 2020, African Environmental Hero Award 2016, UNEP 2016 highest recognition Baobab award for Programme Innovation.

Dr. Munang holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Environmental Change and Policy from University of Nottingham, United Kingdom and an Executive Certificate in Climate Change and Energy Policy from Harvard University Kennedy School of Government.

Dr. Richard Boateng

Richard Boateng is a Professor in Information Systems at the University of Ghana Business School. He is a technology researcher who focuses on developing, communicating, protecting, promoting ideas and concepts into sustainable projects of commercial value and development impact. He is ranked as the #1 Scholar in ICT for Development/E-business Research in Ghana, 9th in Africa and 742nd in the world by the 2021 AD Scientific Index. He was ranked 3rd and 19th Scholar in General Business and Management Research in Ghana and Africa respectively. He served as the Head of the Department of Operations and Management Information Systems at the Business School of the University of Ghana until July 2020. He is the associate editor of the Information Technologies & International Development Journal and serves on the editorial board of the Information Development Journal. His research experience covers the digital economy, cloud computing, e-learning, information and communication technologies (ICT) for development, electronic governance, social media, electronic business, gender and technology, mobile commerce, and mobile health at the national, industrial, organisational and community levels.

Since 2006, he has published 47 journal articles, 9 books, 7 book chapters, 38 published conference paper proceedings, one international technical report, and 2 journal editorials.He has a doctorate in Development Informatics and a master’s degree in Management and Information Systems from the University of Manchester, UK. He also has a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He is a British Chevening Award Scholar and a Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award Scholar.

His post-doctoral studies include undertaking a programme at the International Centre for IT and Development, Southern University and A&M College, USA under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation, USA. He has contributed to two global reports on information systems access and usage. First, by the Renowned Economist, Diane Coyle for the Vodafone Global PLC.’s Socio-economic Impact of Mobiles (SIM) Report; and second, by the World Wide Web Foundation for the 2019 Women’s Rights Online Survey.

Jessica Breakey

Jessica Breakey is a sociologist working as an associate lecturer in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at University of the Witwatersrand, where she coordinates a multidisciplinary course called Engineers in Society, teaching final-year electrical and information engineers. The course is aimed at connecting social and critical theory to the rapid emergence of new technologies, and challenges students to use a sociological lens to examine the roles of race, gender, power and prejudice in datasets, algorithms and Artificial Intelligence.

Dr. Thando Nkohla-Ramunenyiwa

Dr Thando Nkohla Ramunenyiwa (PhD) is a Carnegie funded Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Dr Nkohla-Ramunenyiwa’s background is predominantly in Philosophy, with a specialisation in Applied Ethics. As a research fellow, she is currently doing interdisciplinary research, where she looks at the intersection of philosophy, applied ethics, technology in the African context. To elaborate, she is interested in, through a philosophical lens, the social impact that the 4th Industrial Revolution has on African communities. Her other research interests include Political Philosophy, Feminism and Environmentalism.

Thando’s latest publications include: Nkohla-Ramunenyiwa, T. 2021. Disembodiment, anonymity and oppressive Freedom: An ethical enlightenment for virtual ontology. South African Journal of Philosophy, 40:2, 137-145; Nkohla-Ramunenyiwa, T. 2021. “The importance of a Neo-African Communitarianism: An ethical inquiry for the African teenager” (Chapter 9) in African Values, Ethics and Technology: Questions, Issues, and Approaches and Nkohla-Ramunenyiwa, T. 2021. Virtuality and subjective realities: a freedom based ergon for the modern African parent. Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology Special Issue.

Nina Eichacker

Nina Eichacker is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI. Her work examines the nexus of Post-Keynesian Economics, International Political Economy, and Economic Geography in questions of finance, monetary policy, and government actions. She has published in Challenge, The Review of Political Economy, The Review of Keynesian Economics, and The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, and her book Financial Underpinnings of Europe’s Financial Crisis: Liberalization, Integration, and Asymmetric State Power, was published by Edward Elgar in 2017.

Seeraj Mohamed

Seeraj Mohamed has worked on economic policy and development since the early 1990s. He is the deputy director for Economics in the South African Parliamentary Budget Office. Previously he was Associate Professor of Economics at University of Western Cape and before that was at Wits University where he served as director of the Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development Research Programme, senior lecturer in the Economics Department and on the executive of the Global Labour University programme. He has also been Special Advisor to the Minister of Trade and Industry.

Radha Upadhyaya

Radha Upadhyaya is Research fellow at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi. She has a PhD and MSc in Economics from SOAS, University of London, and a BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge. She is a qualified CFA charterholder. Radha has over 16 years of teaching experience with particular focus on research philosophy & methods; finance & development and entrepreneurship & development. She has written on the Kenyan banking sector, banking regulation in East Africa, African firms, African entrepreneurs and informality. She is on the editorial board of International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development (IJTLID). She also has significant private and non-profit sector experience. She spent four years as the Director of a Kenyan bank and is currently a member of governance body of the Financial Sector Deeping Trust Kenya.

Dr. Marcel Nagar

Dr Marcel Nagar is a postdoctoral research fellow at the NRF SARChI Chair: African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at the University of Johannesburg where she obtained her doctoral degree in Political Science in October 2019. Her research interests include African Politics, International Political Economy, Development Administration, Economic Policy and Social Policy in Developing Countries, Regionalism, Development Theory, and the broader debates surrounding the Developmental State and as well as the Democratic Developmental State.

Dr. Bhaso Ndzendze

Dr Ndzendze is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg. Currently, his work is focused on the relationships between African countries and the People’s Republic of China compared to Taiwan (or the Republic of China) since the early 2000s as well as on emerging technologies and international relations, and the international political economy of interstate war in late 20th century East Africa. Alongside numerous journal articles, his most recent book publications include AI and Emerging Technologies in International Relations by the World Scientific Press and The BRICS Order: Assertive or Complementing the West? Published by Palgrave Macmillan. He is currently developing manuscripts titled Artificial Intelligence and International Relations Theories contracted by Palgrave Macmillan and Theorising East Africa’s Interstate Wars for E-International Relations Press based on fieldwork across multiple countries on the continent. His opinion on technology and policy has appeared in Daily Maverick, The Independent and the Mail & Guardian.

Crystal Simeoni

Crystal Simeoni is a Pan African feminist activist working on macro level economic issues. She currently serves as the Director of Nawi - Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective (The Nawi Collective). In her role as director, Crystal curates the work of the collective towards contributing to building a feminist community in Africa of individuals and organisations working on influencing, analysing, deconstructing and reconstructing macroeconomic policies, narratives. The collective also works on reimagining alternatives through an intersectional Pan African feminist lens. Before this she was head of Advocacy with a focus on Economic Justice at FEMNET and was the Policy Lead of the Tax and the International Financial Architecture at TJN-A before that. She is currently an Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity.

Vuyokazi Futshane

Vuyokazi Futshane is a pan-Africanist, a feminist, a development activist, and campaigner in global development issues, including the eradication of poverty, economic and tax justice and application of an intersectional gender lens to developmental issues.

She is a futurist, and strongly believes in Africa’s transformative power. She is wholeheartedly committed to womxn’s, queer and gender nonbinary people struggles & advancing the movement towards equality and a gender-inclusive national budget and policy making approach. She is currently a Project Officer at Oxfam South Africa; she also regularly contributes to the discourse of youth voices on socio-political and economic issues in South Africa. She is currently in the final stages of completing a Master’s programme, analysing the lived experiences of sex workers, in the past Vuyo has also worked on issues of tax justice at the G20 level and the SADC Basic Income Grant Campaign.

Dr. Chijioke Nwosu

Dr Chijioke Nwosu is a Senior Research Specialist within the Impact Center (IC) at the HSRC. Prior to his current position, he held postdoctoral fellowships at both the HSRC and Georgia State University, Atlanta. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Cape Town. Dr Nwosu has led and participated in the execution of various projects with clients from both the public and non-governmental sectors. Previously as a graduate student, he won a number of academic grants/scholarships including the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency Graduate Scholarship, the Carnegie Fellowship for Doctoral Study, and the African Economic Research Consortium Doctoral Thesis Grant. Dr Nwosu is a development economist. Specifically, his research interests are in the areas of health and labour market outcomes, health care financing in developing countries, the relationship between gender and poverty, and food and nutrition security dynamics in developing countries. He has published a number of peer-reviewed articles in leading academic journals as well as working papers and has presented papers at numerous local and international academic conferences.

Prof. Maureen Mackintosh

Maureen Mackintosh is Professor of Economics at the Open University, and a development economist specialising in the economics of markets for health care and medicines, with particular reference to African health systems. She is the Principle Investigator on a collaborative research project with Tanzanian, Kenyan, Indian and UK colleagues titled, 'GCRF Inclusive societies: How to link industrial and social innovation for inclusive development: lessons from tackling cancer care in Africa', funded by the UK ESRC. Maureen is co-author (with Meri Koivusalo) of Commercialization of Health Care: Global and Local Dynamics and Policy Responses (2005). Her recent publications relating to COVID-19 are Local manufacturing, local supply chains and health security in Africa: Lessons from COVID-19 (2021) and Local manufacturing for health in Africa in the time of Covid-19: experience and lessons for policy (2021), written collaboratively with Geoffrey Banda, Julius Mugwagwa, Dinar Kale and Cecilia Wanjala.

Siya Biniza

Siyaduma “Siya” Biniza is a political economist and advisor with an insightful understanding of applied development economics, international finance, public policy, the political economy of development and regional integration in Africa. Siya has served in a variety of leadership positions in the South African government and NGO sector. He is skilled and experienced in strategic planning, research, governance, development finance and management.

Kelbesa Megersa

Kelbesa Megersa is a researcher currently working for the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) within the ‘Business, Markets and the State’ research cluster. He also supports the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) through the ‘K4D programme’ which seeks to improve the impact of development policy and programming with the use of evidence. His interests include broad areas of development research, with his main areas of expertise being development finance, taxation and private sector development in developing countries. Previously, he worked as an independent consultant and as a researcher for the Belgian Policy Research Group on Financing for Development (BeFinD) at the University of Namur.

Jason Braganza

Jason Rosario Braganza is the Executive Director of African Forum and Network for Debt and Development (AFRODAD). He is a Kenyan Economist with over ten years experience working on international development in Africa.

Over the past decade, Jason has focused his work on trade and regional integration; finance for development and tax; illicit financial flows and domestic resource mobilisation as well as poverty and inequality. Jason has previously served as the Co-Head and Programme Director of Tax at the International Lawyers Project (ILP); the Deputy Executive Director and Head of Research at Tax Justice Network Africa; a Senior Analyst at the Development Initiatives - Africa Hub and Economist at the Ministry of East African Community in Kenya.

Jason holds a Masters Degree in Development Economics from the University of Sussex (UK), and an Undergraduate Degree in Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Dr. Angelica E. Njuguna

Angelica Njuguna has experience for many years in policy and economic research, teaching and training African researchers for capacity building in Africa. Dr. Angelica Njuguna has written and co-authored several research, technical and policy papers in the area of economics such as growth, productivity, economic diversification, economic convergence, potential output and output gap, economic policies and regional integration. In terms of teaching and capacity building, one of the main achievements of Dr. Njuguna is the development of the curriculum for Masters in Econometrics degree at Kenyatta University, where she serves as a Senior Lecturer and currently the Chairman of the Department of Econometrics and Statistics.

Dr Njuguna has been privileged to conduct training in econometrics, research methods and computer applications where participants were middle managers and policymakers from Ministries of Finance & Planning, Central Banks, and African Research Institutions (such as KIPPRA and UNECA). Dr. Angelica Njuguna's involvement with the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) training program has meant she has taught and trained post-graduate Econometrics students from Kenya and other African countries. She is actively involved in peer reviewing of research papers and policy strategy documents from various African institutions such as MEFMI, AfDB and AERC.

Peterson Ozili

Dr. Peterson K. Ozili is a seasoned policy and research analyst. Currently, he is an economist at the Central Bank of Nigeria and a technical assistant to the Deputy Governor Economic Policy at the Central Bank.

He is a regular commentator on developments in the global economy. His recent articles on the economic implications of COVID-19 is popular and widely read.

He specialises in financial inclusion, global economic surveillance and financial regulation.

He has authored nearly 100 scholarly articles and has published in leading journals such as the European Journal of Finance, the International Review of Economics and Finance, and the British Accounting Review. He holds a Master’s degree and Doctorate from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom.

Fatima Hassan

Fatima Hassan is a human rights lawyer and social justice activist and the founder of the Health Justice Initiative. She is the former Executive Director of the Open Society Foundation for South Africa (OSF-SA), heading the Foundation for 6 years (mid-2013 – mid-2019). She has dedicated her professional life to defending and promoting human rights in South Africa, especially in the field of HIV/AIDS where she worked for the AIDS Law Project and also acted for the Treatment Action Campaign in many of its legal cases.

Zama Mthunzi

Zama Mthunzi is a Mathematical Science graduate from Wits University, education activist and recognised among the Mail & Guardian Top 200 under the education category in 2020.

Amuzweni Ngoma

Amuzweni Ngoma is a researcher in the Political Economy Faculty at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (Mistra).