Ariane Agunsoye Senior Lecturer in Economics at Goldsmiths, University of London. Prior to joining Goldsmiths, she was a visiting lecturer in Germany and worked several years in the private sector. Her current research interests are centered on the intersection between political economy and personal finance, exploring how people across a variety of social and demographic backgrounds respond to the rising pressure to manage financial risk, and on critically evaluating the impact of EDI initiatives on knowledge production and dissemination. She is an Associate Member of the Centre for Personal Financial Wellbeing at Aston University and on the Management Committee of the Association for Heterodox Economics.
Alexandra Arntsen is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Nottingham Trent University. Her primary areas of teaching are Environmental Economics and Microeconomics. She holds a MSc and PhD in Economics. Her research areas are ecological economics, labour economics, and feminist economics. Current projects include investigating the relationship between preferences to working hours and attitudes to the environment, and the role of collective bargaining.
Bridget Diana is a PhD student in the Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Bridget is interested in the fields of industrial organisation and the political economy of health and the environment.
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Devika Dutt is a Lecturer in Development Economics in at King’s College London. Her research is focused on the political economy of foreign exchange intervention, central bank swap agreements, the political economy of development policy (especially as it relates to international financial institutions), and macroeconomic policy in developing economies. She is on the editorial board of the Review of Radical Political Economics, on the Management Committee of the Association for Heterodox Economics, and a coordinator of the Neoliberalism and Contemporary Capitalism Working Group of the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy.
Aditi Dixit is a PhD candidate in social and economic history at Utrecht University. Her research is on the socio-historical determinants of the divergence between Indian and Japanese textile industry in the late 19th and early 20th century. Aditi has an MA and MPhil in development studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and has worked with various research organisations on socio-economic changes in underdeveloped economies.
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Paul Gilbert is a Senior Lecturer in International Development at the University of Sussex. His teaching and research has focused on international law, finance and extractive industries, and on tracing aid flows to private sector contractors. He also works on the political ecology of extraction, archival research into the history of development, and the impacts of municipal austerity. He is a co-editor of Entangled Legacies of Empire: Race, Finance & Inequality (Manchester UP Open Access) and an editor of the Bristol UP Business, Finance & International Development book series.
Michelle Meixieira Groenewald is currently a lecturer at the North West University in South Africa. She holds an MSc in Political Economy of Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and an MCom in Economics from the North West University. She was also the recipient of the Chevening Scholarship. She is a contributor for the book Reclaiming Economics for Future Generations which discusses the importance of diversifying, decolonising and democratizing Economics. Her research interests include political economy, curriculum reform of economics education and feminist, decolonial and ecological economics.
Danielle Guizzo is an Associate Professor in Economics Education at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Her research expertise lies at the intersection between the history of economics, the political economy of knowledge and education, and pluralism, diversity and inclusivity in economics. She is the 2024 recipient of the Clarence E. Ayres Scholar prize, awarded by the Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE). Danielle is currently the elected Coordinator of the Association for Heterodox Economics(2022-2024).
Surbhi Kesar is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at SOAS University of London, UK. Her research interests are in the fields of economic development and political economy of development, specifically focusing on informal economy, processes of structural transformation and capitalist transition in labour surplus economies, issues of economic and social exclusion, and decolonised approaches towards the discipline of economics. She is an editorial board member of the Review of Radical Political Economics journal. She is a featured economist for the International Economic Association. She is on the managing committee of the Association for Heterodox Economics and co-leads the IIPPE Political Economy of Labour working group.
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven is a Lecturer in International Development at King’s College, London. Her research is broadly concerned with debates about uneven development, dependency and imperialism, critically assessing the economics field itself, in particular from an anti-colonial perspective, and the role of finance in uneven development. She is the founder and editor of the blog Developing Economics, co-founder of D-Econ, on the Management Committee of Association for Heterodox Economics, and on the advisory board of IDEAS Africa.
Cecilia Lanata-Briones is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Warwick and Adjunct Researcher of the Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Políticas Públicas (Ciepp, Argentina). Her research interests focus on the production and use of Latin American economic statistics from a socio-historical perspective. She is on the management committee of the Association for Heterodox Economics, of the History Section of Royal Statistical Society, and of the Asociación Argentina de Historia Económica.
Amir Lebdioui is an Associate Professor in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Oxford. His research has focused on green industrial policy, export diversification and biodiversity-based innovation models. He is an Algerian national, and holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge. an Associate Professor in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Oxford. His research has focused on green industrial policy, export diversification and biodiversity-based innovation models. He is an Algerian national, and holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge
Farwa Sial is a Research Associate with the Department of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Her research expertise includes political economy of development, development finance and the global financial architecture and the changing nature of private sector accumulation in context to imperialism. She is a management committee member of Association of Heterodox Economics and co-editor at the blog Developing Economics.
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Narayani Sritharan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at AidData – a research lab in the Global Research Institute at William & Mary. She teaches Empirical Microeconomics and Economics of Identity in the Department of Economics. Her research currently focuses on the rise of non-traditional aid donors (such as China and Saudi Arabia) and the impacts of those in developing countries. She is a co-founder of Diversifying and Decolonising Economics.
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Hanna Szymborska is an independent researcher currently working in the UK public sector, with over 7 years of experience in academia. She holds PhD from the University of Leeds, specialising in wealth inequality across class, race, and gender; household finance; financialisation; and economic policy, all through the lens of heterodox schools of thought. She has published in peer-review journals and contributed to edited volumes, policy reports, blogs, and interviews in the media, and has been actively involved in various heterodox economic associations globally over the years.