Tim Stoffel is a researcher with the German Development Insitute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and works on the topic of sustainbale public procurement. He also worked on policies for poverty reduction and middle classes in developing countries.

Santiago Cueto holds a degree in Educational Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and a PhD in the same field from Indiana University in the United States. He has been a Visiting Researcher at the University of California at Davis and the University of Oxford. He is currently Executive Director and Senior Researcher at GRADE, where he coordinates the Peru component of the international study Young Lives/Niños del Milenio. He is also a member of the National Education Council in Peru and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the Catholic University in Peru. He has been President of the Peruvian Educational Research Society. His main areas of interest are education and human development, particularly within a poverty context. In 2003, at the Global Development Network’s (GDN) Annual Conference, one of his works received the prize for best research project in the Education, Knowledge and Technology category. In 2010, he received the National Award in Psychology by the Professional Board of Psychologists in Peru (Colegio Nacional de Psicólogos). In 2018, he received the Magisterial Palms in the degree of Amauta by the Ministry of Education of Peru.

William W. Grimes is a Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, where he has taught since 1996. He previously served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Chair of the Department of International Relations, and as the first Director of the BU Center for the Study of Asia. Professor Grimes’ work bridges comparative and international political economy, across three main streams. His work on Japanese politics and political economy includes Unmaking the Japanese Miracle: Macroeconomic Politics, 1985-2000 (Cornell University Press, 2001) and his co-edited volume (with Ulrike Schaede) Japan’s Managed Globalization: Adapting to the 21st Century (M.E. Sharpe, 2002), as well as a variety of articles and book chapters on the impacts of financial globalization in Japan, Japanese monetary policy making, US-Japan relations, and related topics. He has also written extensively on East Asian regionalism, including his book Currency and Contest in East Asia: The Great Power Politics of Financial Regionalism (Cornell University Press, 2008), which was awarded the 2010 Masayoshi Ohira Prize for outstanding book on the Pacific Basin and received an Honorable Mention for the Asia Society’s Bernard Schwartz Book Award, as well as a series of scholarly and policy articles and chapters on this rapidly evolving issue. He also works on issues related to financial policy and financial innovation. He has co-authored several articles on regional financial governance and remittances. He is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the ways in which the post-developmentalist economies of East Asia have adapted to new financial instruments and technologies. Professor Grimes has spent time as a visiting researcher at the Japanese Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Japan, and several universities in Japan and Australia. He has been the recipient of various fellowships and awards over the years, including two Fulbright fellowships and a book-writing grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership. He is an active lecturer in Japan and the United States in both academic and policy venues and has been recognized for his teaching and advising at Boston University. Professor Grimes is committed to policy-relevant research and works regularly with government officials and financial professionals, particularly from the United States and Japan.

I am Dr. Roma Mitra Debnath, an Associate Professor in the area of Applied Statistics at Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, India. We are the policy think tank to the the GoI in the various areas of its functioning. We conduct the evaluation studies on behalf of GoI and also train the employees on various areas for the capacity development.