Dalia A. Ghanem is an associate professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. Her research spans econometrics and environmental economics. As part of her research, she has developed methods for nonparametric panel models and their applications to difference-in-differences and field experiments. Her work also provides methods relevant for climate change impact studies and environmental monitoring. She is currently a co-editor at the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and an elected member of the Africa Regional Standing Committee of the Econometric Society. Ghanem has earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego, in 2013, and an M.S. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics at the London School of Economics in 2007. Originally from Egypt, Ghanem completed her B.A. in Economics and Political Science at the American University in Cairo in 2003.

Dalia Ghanem

Associate Professor

Prosper Dovonon is Professor at the Department of Economics, Concordia University. He is the Concordia University Research Chair in Econometrics of Large Datasets. His research is focused on Econometrics specifically Time Series Analysis, and Financial Econometrics.

Professor Prosper earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Montreal. Before completing his Ph.D., he obtained an M.Sc. in Statistics and Economics from ENSEA, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. He also holds an M.Sc. in Mathematics from Université Nationale du Bénin, Abomey-Calavi, Benin.

Prosper Dovonon

Professor

Sophie is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Quebec at Montreal. Her research focuses on macroeconomic productivity and the allocation of resources across firms. She obtained PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics - Paris 1 University, with a fellowship from the Center For Research in Economics and Statistics.

Sophie Osotimehin

Associate Professor

Yaw Nyarko is Professor of Economics at New York University (NYU) and the Director of NYU Africa House and the Center for Technology and Economic Development (CTED), as well as Co-Director of the Development Research Institute (DRI). As Co-Director of DRI, he was awarded the 2009 BBVA Frontiers in Knowledge Award on Economic Development Cooperation. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD).

His research interests focus on the areas of economic development, theoretical economics, models of human capital as engines of economic growth, brain drain and skills acquisition, labor economics, and migration. His current research focuses on technology and economic development, commodities exchanges and markets in Africa, and determinants and returns of labor migration from South Asia in the UAE, as well as the impacts of various policy measures on the mobility of labor within the UAE.

He is the Chair of the Econometric Society Africa Regional Standing Committee. He has served as a consultant to organizations including the African Development Bank, the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Social Science Research Council. As the former Vice Provost of NYU, he managed a portfolio that included the oversight and establishment of campuses in Abu Dhabi, Accra, and Shanghai. Yaw Nyarko received his B.A. from the University of Ghana and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University.

Yaw Nyarko

Professor

Steven is Professor and Head of Economics department at University of Pretoria in South Africa. His research interest area are Health and Labour Economics, Household Finances and Welfare, Environmental Economics and Competition Policy. Prof. Steven received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1997 from The Pennsylvania State University. Currently he is Director of African Finance & Economics Association. He is member of University of Pretoria Research and Postgraduate Committee of Senate and Economic Society of South Africa Council. He is also the Managing Editor of South African Journal of Economics.

Steven F. Koch

Professor

Illenin O. Kondo is a Senior Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis within the Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute.

Kondo is a macroeconomist with interests in international macroeconomics, international trade, and the economics of heterogeneity across firms, workers, and locations. He works on quantitative macroeconomic models of sovereign debt crises, trade-induced labor reallocation, and the optimal design of infrastructure networks.

Prior to joining the Minneapolis Fed, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. He also served as a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, in the Trade and Financial Studies section of the Division of International Finance, and he also taught at Johns Hopkins University.

Kondo is a member of the National Economic Association's (NEA) Committee on Macroeconomic Policy and Race. He is also a member of the steering committee of Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) and served as general co-chair of the inaugural ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO '21). He is a board member of the Minnesota Federal Statistical Research Data Center (MnRDC).

He received his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Minnesota under the supervision of Tim Kehoe, Fabrizio Perri, and Cristina Arellano. He also holds an M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering degrees from Georgia Tech and a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from Supélec (now Centrale-Supélec) in France.

Illenin O. Kondo

Senior Research Economist

Abderrahim Taamouti is a Professor and Chair in Applied Econometrics in University of Liverpool Management School. He has a PhD in Economics from University of Montreal in Canada. Before joining Liverpool University Management School, Abderrahim held the position of Associate Professor of Economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in Spain and Professor of Economics and Finance at Durham University Business School in the UK. His fields of specialization are Econometrics (Theory and Applied Econometrics) and Finance. He mainly works on Granger causality analysis, High-dimensional data analysis, Non-parametric estimation and tests, Machine Learning, Asset pricing, Systemic risk, Characteristic function methods in financial time series, Copula estimation, Exact sign-based inference, Risk management and portfolio optimization, Sovereign credit ratings, Robust-estimation techniques to measurement errors, Robust-estimation and inference techniques for stock return predictability. He is an Associate Editor of Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A and an Editorial Board Member of Journal of Risk and Financial Management. He is also an elected member of the Econometric Society Regional Standing Committee. He was the Program Chair of one of the regional conference meeting of the Econometric Society. He also acted as the director of Quantitative Research in Financial Economics (QRFE) at Durham University from 2014 to 2021.

His research projects have resulted in several publications in internationally renowned journals in Econometrics, Finance and Statistics such as Journal of Econometrics, Review of Finance, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Financial Econometrics, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Journal of Dynamics and Economic Control, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, etc.

Abderrahim Taamouti

Professor

Abdoulaye is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Researc

His research focuses on the impact of incentives in macroeconomic environments. He investigate issues related to public finance, labor economics, and the emerging areas of blockchains and decentralized finance using several tools, from mechanism design, contract theory, and optimal control.

He completed his undergraduate studies at École Polytechnique in Paris. He then earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University in 2018, where he was advised by Professors Pavan, Lorenzoni, and De Nardi. He also spent a year as a postdoc at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago from 2018 to 2019.

Abdoulaye Ndiaye

Assistant Professor