Dawit Tessema is an Economist at the IMF’s Strategy, Policy & Review Department. His work focuses on the macroeconomic implications of public investment scaling up. Prior to joining the IMF, he was an Economist at IFPRI and UNECA, and subsequently served as an Economist at the Development Research Department of the African Development Bank working on global economic shock spillovers. He ...

Mamello Thinyane is a Principal Research Fellow at the United Nations University – Institute in Macau. He leads research on Data and Sustainable Development and on the Smart Citizen Cyber Resilience.

Mamello Thinyane est chercheur principal à l’Institut de l’Université des Nations Unies à Macao. Il mène des recherches sur les données et le développement durable et ...

Michael Tierney is the George and Mary Hylton Professor of Government and International Relations and the Director of the Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations at the College of William & Mary.  His research focuses on international political economy, international organizaitons, and the ...

Nhial Tiitmamer is the Director of Environmental and Natural Resources Program at The Sudd Institute and a sessional lecturer at the University of Juba. His research has focused on environmental protection, sustainable energy, natural resource management, climate change, and management of extractive industries. A recipient of Weston Honors Citation Award (2006) conferred by the Canadian Meri...

Gerhard is Assistant Professor of Economics at the New Economic School in Moscow. Previously he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCarre), University of Oxford. Gerhard Toews, born in Kazakhstan, defended his PhD in Oxford in 2014. His research interests include natura...

Sofia Torreggiani  is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Economics at SOAS University of London. Her research focuses on South-South trade, Global Production Networks and industrial development in emerging countries. Prior to joining SOAS, she has worked as an Economist at the Trade and Markets Division of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

Gerardo A. Torres Contreras is a final-year doctoral researcher at IDS. In his work, he explores land struggles, resistance, and processes of agrarian change resulting from renewable energy projects in Mexico. He previously obtained degrees in Political Science at UNAM, Mexico and an MPhil in Development Studies at the University of Oxford. More recently, he has also worked with Oxfam on iss...

Robert M. Townsend is a theorist, macroeconomist, and development economist who analyzes the role and impact of economic organization and financial systems through applied general equilibrium models, contract theory and the use of micro data.  The Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT, he is known for his seminal work on costly state verification, the revelation prin...