Joana Silva is a Senior Research Economist at the World Bank and an Associate Professor at Catolica Lisbon. She has expertise in applied microeconomics, with particular focus on development, labor markets, international trade, firm dynamics, and policy evaluation. Her research has been published in leading academic journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Review of International Economics, and other specialized outlets. Joana has over fifteen years of experience in empirical work on policy-relevant questions. Her research agenda focused on (i) the impact of economic policies on employment fluctuations, welfare, and long-term growth; (ii) international trade and firm performance, examining the drivers and implications of exports at the firm-level, and more broadly how business cycles and globalization affect the evolution of entrepreneurial activity and labor demand; and (iii) adjustment to economic slowdowns and crises, analyzing the channels of transmission across countries; and how firms and workers respond to these shocks. In her research, Joana has used granular data from large administrative datasets from developed and developing countries to conduct impact evaluations of social programs and economic reforms, as well as research on globalization and its impacts on growth and inequality. Joana led several large-scale research programs on Poverty, Inequality, Labor Markets and Social programs. She has also co-authored two World Bank Regional flagship reports, and managed lending operations to several countries. She has extensive experience advising and supporting countries on the design and analysis of economic reforms, social programs and monitoring and evaluation systems. Before joining the World Bank, Joana worked at the Nottingham Center for Research on Globalization and Economic Policy and taught at the University of Nottingham. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of Nottingham

Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim and Head, Competition and Innovation at ZEW Mannheim. Social scientist, an economist with research interests in industrial organization, law & economics, and strategy. I am particularly interested in questions at the intersection of the economics of innovation and competition policy and the labor market for inventors. For my work, I use both theoretical and empirical methods (including experiments and natural language processing).

I am a researcher, practitioner, and PD candidate at the University of Edinburgh. My doctoral research examines how the national government's approach to immigration impacted the efforts of those working to welcome and include immigrants in the UK and the US during the Brexit and Trump eras. I currently am working with Professor Ailsa Henderson on the creation and coordination of a Devolved Democracy Forum, designed to bring together practitioners and academics to discuss advances in democratic experiments across the three devolved territories in the UK and their impact on citizen engagement; and to identify best practice as well as avenues for future innovation in devolved democratic innovation. Other topics on which I have worked as a researcher include digital democratic innovation, participatory budgeting, and community engagement. Prior to commencing my PhD programme, I served as the founder and executive director at Project Interfaith, a US-based NGO focused on fostering understanding and inclusion about religious and cultural identity and diversity, and taught as an adjunct professor at both Creighton University and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. I hold a Master of Public Policy and a Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Education from Creighton University.

Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University