Emmanuel is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. He recently received his dual doctorate degrees from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow UK and the University of Naples, Federico II, Italy. He was a Marie-curie Early Stage Researcher with research topic in the area of Bio-geotechnical Engineering. Emmanuel's background is in Agricultural and Environmental Engineering and his current research focus is in the development of microbial-based technologies for soil Improvement as low-carbon options for erosion mitigation, slope stabilisation and to delay the onset of shallow landslides. Emmanuel has been an academic staff in the department of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Agriculture, Makurdi - Nigeria since 2012, rising from Graduate Assistant to the rank of Lecturer I, and involved in teaching, research and community service. He is knowledgeable in Environmental Impacts Assessment and enthusiastic about global governance and sustainable development. Emmanuel is active in research and research dissemination, with a growing research portfolio of publications, contributions to specialist research community, interdisciplinary research management, conference presentations as well as serving as peer reviewer for several top journals. He has had previous experience in broadcasting (as TV/Radio presenter) and webcasting, having worked with the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA Yenagoa) and the Confluence Cable Network (CCN, Kogi State, Nigeria) as well as the University of Strathclyde Student internet radio 'Strathclyde Fusion'.

I am a PhD candidate in Demography/Population Studies in the Social Policy Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science in London, UK. My background is in Economics, where I hold an MSc and BSc in Economics. I have worked as a quantitative research analyst at Young Lives, University of Oxford, UK for over two years, where I was involved in supporting and conducting research using the survey data, as well as helped clean and check the survey data. Young Lives is a unique quantitative and qualitative longitudinal study, following the lives of 12,000 children across 15 years in four low and middle-income countries; Ethiopia, India (states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana), Peru and Vietnam. The focus of the project was to understand the lives of poor children in these four countries, in order to help policy practice. Prior to that, I was a research assistant at Khazanah Research Institute in Malaysia, a research think-tank group that is linked to Malaysia's largest government-linked corporation. My main responsibilities there was to conduct research on inequality and poverty issues in Malaysia and provide policy recommendations at the national level. My research interests are on poverty and inequality, and human capital issues (e.g. skills, labour market inequality) at the micro-level.

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Roy van der Weide is a Senior Economist in the Poverty and Inequality Research team within the Development Research Group of the World Bank. He recently assumed the responsibility of leading the poverty and inequality mapping research within the department. His other research is concerned with the empirics of inequality of opportunity and poverty reduction, axiomatic approaches to income measurement, spatial econometrics, and the transmission of price inflation and volatility. His work has been published in a range of academic journals including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, and the World Bank Economic Review. He holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam.