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Dr. Amber Darr completed a PhD from UCL Laws in 2018 in which she compared the diffusion of competition laws in India and Pakistan. She is presently a Lecturer in Law at Coventry University and a Teaching Fellow at UCL. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Centre for Law, Economics and Society.
Dr. Darr is also a Barrister of Lincoln’s Inn and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Prior to proceeding for her PhD, she practised corporate, commercial and constitutional law in Pakistan and also served as the Head of the Legal Department of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan.
Dr. Darr has also published on competition law issues in leading international publications and has contributed op-ed pieces in leading newspapers on a range of legal issues. She is presently working on her manuscript on the diffusion of competition laws across South Asia. She is particularly interested in inclusive economies, access to justice and education.
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I am an economist with academic and private-sector experience. I am an expert in health, economic development, and sustainability.
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I am a Senior Research Fellow at the MCFS, Monash University. Before joining MCFS, I was an Associate Professor at Dhaka University. I also worked as a Consultant for the World Bank for several years. I completed my doctoral studies at MIT under the supervision of Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee. My major fields of interest were international trade, finance and development and econometrics.
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Zhenyu Zhang is a Ph.D. student at the University of Hong Kong and has a master's degree in Public Administration from Cornell University. He is highly interested in policy issues relevant to China and East Asia. He is also highly interested in Venture capital and interned at the Shenzhen Capital Group, the largest venture capital company in China.
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Claudio Labanca is lecturer in the Department of Economics. He joined the department in 2017 after completing his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California, San Diego. His research falls at the intersection of labor economics and public economics and it covers a variety of topics, including wage and productivity differentials across firms, the effects of taxation on the supply of labor and the impact of migration on local labor markets. In his work he pays particular attention to the role played by the interaction between worker and firm behavior in shaping demand and supply of labor, wages and productivity. To estimate these interactions, he applies the latest econometric techniques to detailed matched employer-employee data.
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Bella Aung is a doctoral student researching the relationship between political parties and ethnic women's representation in the three branches of government (legislative, executive, and judicial) in Myanmar.
Decolonizing academia and incorporating the lived experiences of indigenous and minority people into academic discourse are her ultimate goals as a researcher. Her research interests include gender and ethnic representation in North America (Canada and the United States) and Southeast Asia, particularly Myanmar (Burma).
She is also very passionate about gendered and racialized experiences of individuals with mental illnesses and/or disabilities in academia. She is a firm believer that strong mental health and wellness support needs to be continually accessible for marginalized academics.
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Augustus is an Economist in the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, D.C.
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I am a development economist with training and research in energy/environment and behavioral economics. My research studies how underlying constraints like market frictions and behavioral biases interact with the process of sustainable development. I specifically combine applied microeconomic theory with randomized control trials and natural experiments to study challenges in achieving universal energy access and gender equality.
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Research interests include gender, work, organisations, paid and unpaid care work.
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Experienced, passionate, committed and forever optimistic development professional and change agent who has spent her life working with others to build a just society. Over 30 years engagement in social development at community, national, regional levels in sub-Saharan Africa: strategy and programme development and implementation; strategic funding of research for development; networking and learning based programming. Currently completing doctorate in policy research and practice: education and health provision.