Communicable Diseases

David Evans
Director, Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy
World Health Organization.

Research Area: The burden of disease by cause, costs and effects of interventions to reduce burden and their impact on population health, responsiveness and fairness of financial contributions of health systems.

Jacques van der Gaag
Professor of Development Economics, University of Amsterdam, Dean of the Department of Economics and Econometrics.

Research Area: Economics of poverty, structural adjustment, labor markets, health and education economics, social policy.

Conflicts

Michael Intriligator
Professor of Economics, Political Science and Policy Studies, University of California, Los Angeles and Senior Fellow, Milken Institute.

Research Area: Economic Theory and Mathematical Economics, Econometrics, Health Economics, Strategy and Arms Control.

Tony Addison
Professor, Deputy Director, Project Director, Senior Research Fellow, World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) of the United Nations University (UNU).

Research Area: Relationship between conflict, reconstruction and economic reform in Africa, fiscal policy (public spending, taxation, and macro-fiscal policy) in low-income countries, development economics and advanced development economics.

Education

Paul Schultz
Malcolm K. Brachman Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Yale University.

Research Area: Schooling, health, and mobility in development, income distribution and endogenous household composition, gender inequalities.

Ludger Woessmann
Dr. Head of Department, Research Department "Human Capital and Structural Change", ifo Institute of Economic Research at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.

Research Area: Education Economics, Growth Economics, Structural Change.

Governance and Corruption

Jens Andvig
Senior Researcher, Dr. philos (Ph.D) in Economics, University of Oslo

Research Area: Economics of corruption (particularly auction systems of public contracting, fluctuations in public activity levels, international spillover mechanisms of economic crimes, child labour in developing countries).

Jean Cartier-Bresson
Professor of Economics, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, France.

Research Area: Development, public economy, the global governance agenda, uses and abuses of estimates of different forms of illegal transactions.

Malnutrition and Hunger

Peter Svedberg
Professor of Development Economics, The Institute for International Economic Studies.

Research Area: Causes and effects of undernutrition and measurement problems.

Simon Appleton
Dr., Senior Lecturer in Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham.

Research Area: Areas of poverty and human resources with application to sub-Saharan Africa.

Population: Migration

Mark Rosenzweig
Mohamed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School, Harvard.

Research Area: Consequences of the Indian green revolution for schooling attainment, household structure, and deforestation, impact of local democratization on the distribution of public services in India, effects of maternal schooling on children's human capital, consequences of low birthweight.

Roger Böhning
Director, Programme on Promoting the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, International Labour office, Geneva.

Research Area: Effectiveness of immigration and integration policies in western Europe, indicators of the achievement of human rights in the labour field.

Sanitation and Water

John Boland
J.J. Hermans Professor of Chemistry

Research Area: Surface Chemical Reactions, Nanoscale Materials.