Nava Ashraf is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on how people make decisions, applying principles from economics and psychology to design more effective development interventions. She has conducted randomized evaluations of savings innovations in the Philippines, an agricultural marketing intervention in Kenya, and is currently working on a randomized evaluation of socially-marketed health products in Zambia.

Marianne Bertrand is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Besides her work on corporate finance, her research interests include racial bias in the US, the impact of affirmative action for disadvantaged castes in India, and corruption and red tape in India.

Shawn Cole is an assistant professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. His research examines corporate finance, banking, and consumer finance in developing countries, covering topics such as bank competition, government regulation, and household investment decisions. He has conducted randomized evaluations in education and financial literacy, as well as evaluations of market-based products to help farmers manage risk.

Pascaline Dupas is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at UCLA. Dupas' areas of research are applied microeconomics and development economics. She is currently conducting field experiments in health, education, and microfinance in Kenya, Ghana, and Morocco.

Erica Field is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. Prior to joining the Department of Economics in 2005, she worked at The Institute for Quantitative Social Science as a Cohort X Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research. Erica's primary fields of interest are development and labor economics, with a regional focus on Latin America. Her past research has examined the household welfare effects of urban land titling programs in developing countries, including the impact of tenure security on labor supply, credit access and fertility. Her current research examines the link between health investments and economic mobility.

Michael Greenstone is the 3M Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The focus of his research is on estimating the costs and benefits of environmental quality. In addition to his projects in developed countries, he is currently researching the economic and health impacts of indoor air pollution, climate change, air pollution, and clean water in developing countries.

Rema Hanna is an Assistant Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her work focuses on the provision and the impact of public services to the poor in South Asia (mostly focusing on India). She has conducted a randomized evaluation of a teacher absenteeism program in Rajasthan, India and is working on an evaluation of a clean stoves program in Orissa, India.

President and Founder of IPA, is Professor of Economics at Yale University; Research Fellow at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT; and an Affiliate of Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD). His research focuses on microeconomic issues of public policies and poverty. He studies the effectiveness of particular policies to fight poverty or the relevance of economic theories of individual decision-making. Much of his work uses behavioral economics insights and approaches to examine economic and policy issues relevant in developing countries as well as in domestic charitable fundraising and political participation.

Michael Kremer is the Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Kremers recent research examines education and health in developing countries, immigration, and globalization.

Dan Levy is a Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Director of Training of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. He is currently involved in evaluations of a conditional cash transfer program in Jamaica and a set of education interventions in Burkina Faso. He also provides technical assistance and training to Mexico's Social Development Ministry on impact evaluations of social programs.

Leigh Linden is an Assistant Professor in both the Department of Economics and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. His research focuses on the ability of social services to improve the well being of children, especially in impoverished areas.

Edward Miguel is an associate professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley. His work focuses on the provision and the impact of public goods to the poor in Sub Saharian Africa, notably in Kenya and Tanzania. He has conducted a randomized evaluation of a deworming program in Kenya and of a nutrition supplement program aimed at pre-primary school children in India.

Sendhil Mullainathan is a professor of economics at Harvard. He is the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" award and has conducted a randomized evaluation of racial bias in hiring in the US. He has also examined the impact of cash transfers to the elderly in South Africa.

Karthik Muralidharan is an assistant professor in the economics department at UC - San Diego. His research focuses on improving education and health in developing countries. He has studied the impact of performance-pay for teachers, the impact of contract teachers, and the impact of cash grants to schools on student learning outcomes in India via large-scale randomized evaluations. Current projects include studying the impact of school choice programs in India, and the impact of teacher certification, across the board salary increases for teachers, and continuous teacher training programs in Indonesia.

Ben Olken is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at M.I.T. His research focuses on the political economy of developing countries, with a particular focus on corruption. He is involved in several randomized evaluations in Indonesia that seek to reduce corruption and improve targeting of programs that provide local public goods to villages.

Rohini Pande is the Mohamed Kamal Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Her research focuses on the economic analysis of the politics and consequences of different forms of redistribution, principally in developing countries. Most of her field work is based in India. Ongoing projects examine microfinance, voter campaigns and anti-corruption policies.

Jonathan Robinson is an assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research is primarily focused in sub-Saharan Africa, and includes studies of how individuals cope with risk, a project to understand why farmers do not adopt potentially profitable agricultural technologies, and several studies of small businesses in Kenya. His current work includes evaluations of various strategies to improve health outcomes in poor countries.

Antoinette Schoar is a professor of economics at MIT. An expert in corporate finance, entrepreneurship, and organizational economics, Antoinette Schoar researches venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, corporate diversification, and governance, and capital budgeting decisions in firms. She has received the Fellowship of the George Stigler Center, '97-'99, and the ERP Doctoral Scholarship of the German Ministry of Trade, '95-'97.

Rebecca Thornton will begin her appointment as an assistant Professor at the University of Michigan economics department in 2008. Her research focuses on education and health as well as how individuals respond to financial incentives in these areas. She has worked on a randomized evaluation of a merit-based scholarship in Kenya. She is also working on randomized evaluations examining HIV testing and prevention and menstruation and education in Nepal.