Ayelech Tiruwha Melese
Ayelech Tiruwha Melese is an independent researcher and consultant based in the Netherlands. She has more than 15 years experience in global value chains and local economic development focusing on Ethiopia. She intermittently worked with the Anker Methodology since 2015 to estimate living wage in Ziway, Ethiopia as well as to lead a living wage program for a Standard organization (RSPO). Currently she is leading a project with Anker Research Institute to develop simplified guidelines for valuing in-kind benefits.
Alexandre de Freitas Barbosa
Alexandre de Freitas Barbosa has a Phd in Labor Economics from Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP (2003). He is currently a Professor at the Institute of Brazilian Studies (IEB) of the University of São Paulo (USP). He has developed studies on labor and inequality for the past 30 years. He has worked with the Anker Methodology since 2016 and is linked to CEBRAP, an affiliate of the Anker Research Institute (ARI), responsible for the Anker Living Wage Strategy in Brazil.
Syarifah Marlina AlMazhir
Syarifah Marlina AlMazhir is a social development practitioner and a program planning, monitoring, and evaluation consultant. She holds a MSc in Social Policy and Development and has over 20 years of experiences In International Development and Research. She has conducted more than 20 evaluations, surveys, and research projects, including three living income studies in Indonesia.
Daniel Alvarado Abarca
Daniel Alvarado Abarca holds a BA and Lic. in Sociology and Political Science and is currently finishing his MA in Public Administration. He is a researcher at the Institute of Social Research and a lecturer of the School of Political Science at the University of Costa Rica.
Pantja Pramudya
Pantja, who holds a Ph.D. from Wageningen University, is a founding member and researcher at the Institute of Social and Economic Research (Inrise). With more than twenty years of focused research in heterodox economics, sustainable finance, the politics of sustainability governance, and sustainable value chains, Pantja recently finished a study on living wages in Indonesia.
Nathália Porto
Nathália, a Brazilian sociologist, holds a Master's degree in Political Science and has nearly 15 years of experience in the field of social data analysis. She leads research initiatives on corporate citizenship, reputation, social responsibility, and governance, utilizing a combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
Jesús David Aban Tamayo
Jesús David Aban Tamayo, an independent researcher residing in Mexico, earned his MSc in Development Economics and Statistics from the University of Bordeaux, France. His research centers on analyzing and tackling social development and inequality issues, with a specific emphasis on vulnerable communities such as indigenous groups. David actively engages in policy assessments, utilizing a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches to assess the effectiveness of governmental interventions.
Sandhya Barge
Dr. Sandhya Barge has experience of more than three decades in the area of social science research. Her research activities have been on various social and developmental issues with expertise of quantitative and qualitative research methodology. With a Ph.D. in Demography from International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Bombay University. Her masters’ degree is in Anthropology from Pune University.
Yapo NGuessan
Yapo NGuessan has a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Kansas State University, USA. An Associate Professor at the National University of Lorougnon Guede in Cote d'Ivoire, he is also a Research Associate with the Ivoirian Center for Socio Economic Research. He has capitalized more than 20 years of successful experiences in agriculture and rural development policy design and monitoring of development projects.
Kabeer Dawani
Kabeer is an independent researcher and consultant, currently based in the United States. He has significant experience working on living wages since 2015, including two Anker Living Wage benchmark studies in Pakistan, on the methodology for updating living wage estimates, and on several reference value reports.
Rocío Espinosa Montiel
Rocío Espinosa Montiel holds an MSc in Economics & Econometrics from the University of Southampton. She has collaborated in the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL) and the National Commission for Social Protection in Health (Seguro Popular). She is currently a researcher at the Espinosa Yglesias Research Centre (CEEY).
Eduardo Lazzari
Currently, Poverty Specialist (ETC) at the World Bank, based in Luanda Angola. PhD in Political Science at the University of São Paulo, and formerly a Post-Doctoral Researcher Fellow at Harvard University and Fundação Getúlio Vargas.
Kuriakose Mamkoottam
Dr.Kuriakose Mamkoottam, a sociologist, was Professor of Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations at the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University (1984-2011) and Ambedkar University Delhi (2011-2016). His areas of interest include Human Resource Management, Labour, Technological Change. He is interested in Anker methodology and actively engaged in assessing living wages.
Lykke E. Anderson
Lykke E. Andersen holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. She has conducted research on development in Latin America for more than 25 years, and on living wages and living income since 2017. According to IDEAS/RePEc, she is ranked among the top 5% of female economists in the World.
Isidro Soloaga
Isidro Soloaga. Agricultural and Natural Resources Economist from the University of Maryland, Isidro is a professor at the Department of Economics-Universidad Iberoamericana-Mexico City and a Level III in the Mexican National System of Researchers. He has more than 30 years of experience in the analysis of economic development, poverty, income distribution, and the regional economy.
Manoj Thibbotuwawa
Manoj Thibbotuwawa is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS) with research interests in agriculture productivity, agribusiness value chains, agriculture trade, agriculture labour, food security, climate change and environmental and natural resource economics. He has more than 19 years of research experience at IPS.
Jem Marie M. Nario
An economist and researcher, Jem Marie explores topics on social mobility and development. She has a strong commitment to evolving knowledge; she has contributed insights to social mobility in rural areas and collaborated in researching living wage in the Philippines.
Nidhi Kaicker
Nidhi Kaicker is an Assistant Professor of Management at Dr BR Ambedkar University Delhi. Her research interests include Analysis of Household Consumption Behaviour, Food Security, and Sustainable Finance. She has been associated with the Anker Research Institute since 2016, and has been a part of various living wage benchmarking studies in India.
Emma Blackmore
Emma Blackmore is an independent consultant as well as a research associate of the International Institute for Environment and Development and ARI, based in Nairobi, Kenya. She has more than 14 years’ experience working on market governance, inclusive business, standards and certification, small-scale agriculture, informal markets, food systems, and Living Wages. Emma recently completed the Living Wage benchmark for Kericho, Kenya.
Lawrence Dacuycuy
Dr. Lawrence Dacuycuy is the current Chair of the Social Science Division of the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP). He is a Full Professor and a member of the Society of University Fellows at De La Salle University. He also serves as a member of the Commission on Higher Education’s Technical Committee for Economics member.