Sayantan Ghosal is Professor of Economics at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and aFellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Mnufacture and Commerce. He was previously Dean of Interdisciplinarity and Impact at the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow, a Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick from 2004 to 2013 where he was also Research Director of the ESRC funded Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE). He also has a PhD from CORE, Universite Catholique de Louvain under the European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics. Sayantan Ghosal co-ordinates the interdisciplinary research theme "Addressing Inequalities" at the University of Glasgow, leads the "LMIC Rseearch Network" and is an academic ambassador for the research beacon “Addressing Inequalities”. He is a PI on a number of research grants and a co-investigator on the ESRC funded “Rebuilding Macroeconomics Network”. Over his career he has been awarded over £1o million in research funding. and an external Research Fellow for ESRC Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE). He has supervised over 25 PhD students. His research interests include poverty and deprivation traps, behavioral welfare economics, sovereign debt crisis and restructuring, endogenous formation of networks and groups, political economy; global cooperation for climate change, long run growth and foundations of general equilibrium. He has published in journals such Economic Journal, Revciew of Economic Studies, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic History, Frontiers of Neuroscience, Games and Economic Behavior, , Economic Theory and Journal of Mathematical Economics and includes a ISI highly cited paper. He has authored/co-authored a number of policy reports (e.g. Chatham House), blogs (e.g. Vox EU, Ideas for India, The Conversation), newspaper articles (e.g. The Times of India and The Guardian) and presented research/evidence at the House of Commons and the Scottish Parliament. His research has been cited and discussed in the World Development Report 2015, the New York Times, The Times, The Guardian amognst other newpapers.

I am a researcher, teacher and practitioner in the area of public policy in New Zealand and policy law transfer and localisation processes in developing nations. My previous work focused on social entrepreneurship and innovation in the area of development policy in the Democratic Republic of Congo and program monitoring and evaluation in Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania with World Vision. I am also continuing work on two research projects in Samoa; one focusing on the role of social entrepreneurs in Samoan society and a second on the policy responses to criminal deportees and their lived experiences in the process of immigration through deportation and re-assimilation and the role of innovative civil society organisations in this process. My objective is to continue to make a positive impact in public policy, development practice and policy in both the public or private sector.

Raffaella holds a BSc in Economics from Bocconi University (Italy) and a PhD in Statistics from the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). Before being appointed at the University of Edinburgh as Associate Professor, she was a Lecturer at the University of Essex. She has conducted research at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Louisiana State University, Luigi Bocconi of Milan, University College Dublin and ETH Zurich. She is a member of the Business and Industry section of the Royal Statistical Society and of the local Operational Research Society. Raffaella has been awarded 15 research projects, funded by the ESRC, EPSRC, DataLab, British Academy, Regional Studies Association and the Italian Ministry of Education. She has published widely on credit risk, financial inclusion, affordability and Open Banking.

Assistant Professor in Economics - Sciences Po