Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. From January 2021 she will join the University of Massachusetts at Amherst as Professor. Since 2002 she has been the Executive Secretary of International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs), an international network of heterodox development economists (www.networkideas.org). She received the NordSud Prize for Social Sciences 2010 of the Fondazione Pescarabruzzo, Italy, the ILO Decent Work Research Prize for 2011, the Adisheshaiah Award for Distinguished Contributions to Social Sciences, 2015 and two prizes from the Asiatic Society, Kolkata. Her current research interests include globalisation, international trade and finance, employment patterns in developing countries, macroeconomic policy, issues related to gender and development, and the implications of recent growth in China and India. She has authored/edited 18 books and nearly 200 scholarly articles. Read more here

Professor Ndikumana is currently Distinguished Professor of Economics and Director of the African Development Policy Program at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) based at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is of Burundian origin, and specialises in African development, macroeconomics, external debt and capital flight. His teaching experience covers Macroeconomics; Money and Banking; African Economic Development; and Development Policy and International Cooperation. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Burundi, and a master’s degree and doctorate in Economics, both from Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Professor Ndikumana has served as a member of the United Nations Development Policy Committee; Director of Research and Operations of the African Development Bank (2008–2011); and Head of macroeconomic analysis at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA or Economic Commission for Africa). He is Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town and the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.

Fatimah is a Nigerian and Irish-British women’s rights strategic and technical adviser involved in feminist research, policy, and advocacy across the areas of economic justice, education, and health across Africa. Working primarily on analyses of current economic development orthodoxies and their impacts, she also has experience from working across South Asia and the Caribbean. Working with women’s groups, civil society, government bodies, INGOs, the UN, and bilateral organisations, her writing has been published by Feminist Africa, UNESCO, the African Women’s Development Fund, and the Commonwealth among others, and can be found on platforms such as openDemocracy, African Arguments, and the Guardian.

Professor Sunanda Sen previously taught for nearly three decades at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. She has lectured as visiting faculty in various Universities and research institutes in India and overseas. In 1994, she held the Joan Robinson Memorial Lectureship at Cambridge University, and she is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Her publications include many books including "The Changing Face of Imperialism" (Routledge 2018) and "Colonies and Empire" (Orient Longmans 1992). Her current research relates to global finance, money, development, labour, economic history, and gender studies.

Economist and independent research consultant. She recently completed her MA in Labour Studies and Social Policy at the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at Rhodes University. Her research explored the changing nature of labour-intensive production in post-Apartheid South Africa and the gendered individualisation of risk associated with non-standard, informal and precarious employment. She has consulted for organisations such as the International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) and Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). She is also associated with the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU). Her research interests include international development, labour economics, social policy and gender.

Mozambican labor scholar-activist based at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at Wits University and an editor of alternactiva.co.mz—a progressive Mozambican platform. Ruth is an alumnus of the International Centre for Development and Decent Work. Her research interests include informal worker organising and workers’ rights, redistributive policies and social protection, agrarian transformation and the changing nature of work.

Horman Chitonge

Professor Horman Chitonge is based at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town (UCT). His research interests include agrarian political economy, hydro politics, and alternative strategies for economic growth in Africa. His most recent books include: Industrialising Africa: Unlocking the Economic Potential of the Continent ( Peter Lang, 2019); Land, The State and the Unfinished Decolonisation Project in Africa: Essays in Honour of Professor Sam Moyo (Laanga Publishers, 2019); Social Welfare Policy in South Africa: From the Poor White Problem to a Digitised Social Contract (Peter Lang, 2018); Contemporary Customary Land Issues in Africa: Navigating the Contours of Change (Cambridge Publishers, 2017); Economic Growth and Development in Africa: Understanding Trends and Prospects (Routledge, 2015). Industrial Policy and the Transforming the Colonial Economy in Africa: The Zambian Experience (in Press, Routledge).

Bruce Baigrie

Climate Justice Liaison at the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC), Cape Town, South Africa. He holds a BSc in Zoology and Environmental and Geographical Sciences; BSc Honours in Biological Sciences; and Master’s in Conservation Biology from UCT. His research interests include political ecology and the political economy of climate change and capitalism. He is further interested in the pedagogies of political education and is currently producing an online course of climate justice. In addition to his academic background in environmental sciences, he has also worked for civil society organisations such as #UniteBehind, Ndifuna Ukwazi and Open Shuhada Street.

Michelle Pressend

Michelle Pressend is currently a lecturer in Environmental Sociology at UCT. She has worked as a researcher, policy analyst, and activist on environmental and socio-economic issues primarily within the non-governmental sector. She also served in national government during the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Her interests lie in re-thinking political-economy to respond in new and relational ways to the many social-ecological challenges faced in South Africa and globally. She is completing her PhD and is based in the Environmental Humanities South program. Her PhD project focuses on renewable energy transitions in South Africa. It adopts philosophical ideas and approaches in order to find ways to move beyond the Humanity and Nature divide within renewable energy discourse and practices. Her research looks for ways to create, reclaim and defend renewable energy transitions and energy with a focus on relationality.

Hanna Szymborska

Dr Hanna Szymborska is a senior lecturer at the Birmingham City Business School. Prior to this, she worked as a lecturer in economics at the Open University. She holds a PhD from the University of Leeds, specialising in inequality, financialisation, and economic policy through the lens of heterodox schools of thought. She is committed to promoting pluralism and inclusivity in economics as a co-founder of Diversifying and Decolonising Economics, member of the Advisory Board of the Women’s Budget Group Early-Career Network, team member of the Foundation Edward Lipinski, and member of Reteaching Economics.

Amit Basole

Professor Amit Basole is an Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, where he also heads the Centre for Sustainable Employment. He has a PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His principal fields of research are Poverty and Inequality, Informality, Employment, Structural Change, and Political Economy of Knowledge. He has also taught undergraduate and MA courses at UMass-Boston, UMass-Amherst and at Bucknell University. These include Introduction to Economics, Economic Development, Political Economy, Political Economy of Development, and Gender and Development.

Professor Vimal Ranchhod is the Deputy Director of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) based at the University of Cape Town. He teaches an Honour Economics course on the Economics of Inequality and his research focuses on labour markets, education, poverty and inequality, and discrimination. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan.

Hibist Kassa

Dr Hibist Kassa is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for African Alternatives. She is a Research Associate with the Centre for African Studies and Chair in Land and Democracy in South Africa at the University of Cape Town. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies. In 2019, she was awarded a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Johannesburg. Her doctoral dissertation was a comparative study of Petty Commodity Production of Mining in Ghana and South Africa. It is being turned into a monograph for Brill in its New Scholarship in Political Economy series. Her work covers the themes of Land, the State, Social Reproduction, Citizenship, Evolution of Local Capital and Political Economy of Natural Resources.

Muna Shifa

Dr Muna Shifa is a senior research officer in SALDRU. She holds MCom and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Cape Town and a BSc degree in statistics from Addis Ababa University. Her research focuses on land tenure systems and rural livelihoods, urbanization and development, social cohesion and inequality, and the analysis of poverty and inequality. She teaches postgraduate level courses on complex surveys and measuring poverty and inequality in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town.

Sanjay Reddy

Prof Sanjay G. Reddy is an Associate Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research.

He has extensive experience as a consultant for various UN bodies. He has held fellowships from the Center for Ethics and the Center for Population and Development Studies at Harvard University, the Center for Human Values at Princeton University, and has recently worked with AUDA-NEPAD on its post-COVID 19 strategy for Africa.

Professor Reddy has also published widely in academic journals in economics and his research interests include Development, Inequality and Poverty, Globalization (International Trade and Finance), Welfare Economics, Ethics and Economics, Economic History, History of Thought, Methodology and Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Social Theory and the Unification of the Social Sciences

Ayabonga Cawe

Ayabonga is a Johannesburg based development economist, columnist, broadcaster and activist. He is Managing Director of Xesibe Holdings (Pty) Ltd, a platform involved in advisory, facilitation and content development across a wide range of fields. He hosts MetroFMTalk on MetroFM, BusinessUnusual on Newzroom Afrika and writes a regular column for the Business Day. He has worked as Economic Justice Manager at Oxfam South Africa (OZA) working on policy advocacy and research. Ayabonga sat on the National Minimum Wage Advisory Panel appointed by the Deputy President and Nedlac in 2016, which advised on the R20/hour proposal and the VAT zero-rating review panel, tasked by the Minister of Finance in 2018, to consider the expansion of the list of food and non-food items exempted from value added tax. Ayabonga was recently appointed to the Presidential Economic Advisory Council, chaired by President Cyril Ramaphosa. He is a Sessional Lecturer at the School of Economic and Business Sciences at Wits University and holds an M. Com (Cum Laude) in Development Theory and Policy from Wits.

Neo Mosala

Neo Mosala is a South African student activist and candidate fellow of the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation. She is competing a BA Law degree at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is the chairperson of Rethinking Economics for Africa Wits, a chapter in the national youth-led organisation that is focused on building a movement for enacting progressive change in the study of economics and structure of the South African economy.

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