Peter Quartey holds a PhD in Development Economics from the University of Manchester (UK), MSc in Quantitative Development Economics (University of Warwick, UK), MPhil. Economics (Ghana), and BA Economics (Ghana). He is a Professor in Development Economics and the immediate past Head, Department of Economics and Director (Economic Management Programme), University of Ghana. He served as the Deputy Director, Centre for Migration Studies (University of Ghana). Prof.
Francis Annan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley ARE, a J-PAL Affiliated Professor at MIT, the Scientific Lead and Co-Chair of the Retail Finance Distribution (ReFinD) Research Initiative at ISSER, and a Fellow at the Center for Development Economics and Policy (CDEP) and the Center for Environmental Economics and Policy (CEEP). Prior to UC Berkeley, Francis was an Assistant Professor of Economics, Risk, and Insurance at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.
He is a Human Geographer. Currently he is a Senior Research Fellow and the Head of Statistics and Survey Division at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana. He attained his PhD in Human Geography and MSc in Environmental Policy and Management from the University of Hull, UK, in 2007 and 2003 respectively.
Milo Bianchi is Professor of Finance at the Toulouse School of Economics. His research interests include behavioral and household finance, financial development and entrepreneurship. His current research agenda focuses on the adoption and impact of fintech services on household welfare, with particular focus on behavioral aspects. He has also investigated how financial constraints affect microentrepreneurs in rural Mexico, how access to credit influences entrepreneurial choices globally, how lack of financial education affects investment decisions and household wealth accumulation.
Daniel Björkegren is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Brown University. He explores the opportunities generated by new technologies in low income countries, using digital data. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics and a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard University and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Washington
Vera Fiador is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Finance of the University of Ghana Business School and holds a PhD in Finance from the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, South Africa. She has expertise in corporate finance, corporate governance, gender diversity, enterprise risk management, environmental and social risk management. She has a number of peer-reviewed publications to her name and has consulted for a number of reputable entities including the GIZ, IFC, SNV, OPM-GOGIG, KAIPTC, NBSSI and a number of local Ghanaian banks.
She is an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Prior to joining IIM Calcutta, Tanika was at IIT Kanpur from 2011-2017 and at DIW Berlin from 2009-2011. She completed her PhD in Economics from Washington University in St Louis in May 2009.
Her research interests include Development Economics, Labor Economics, Institutions and Gender.
