Emma Blackmore
Kenya/ UK
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.
Michael Msukuma
Malawi
Michael Msukuma holds a Master of Science in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, completed through the Collaborative Master’s Programme with the University of Pretoria and sixteen partner universities across Sub‑Saharan Africa. His graduate training specialized in agricultural policy analysis, applied econometrics and quantitative research methods, including project management, monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL).
Mirriam Matita
Malawi
Mirriam Matita has a PhD in Economics from the University of Malawi. She is also academic staff at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) in Malawi. Her research interests include the application of microeconomics in agriculture policy, commercialization, social protection, and poverty analysis.
Isidro Soloaga
Mexico
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.
Jesús David Aban Tamayo
Mexico
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.
Rocío Espinosa Montiel
Mexico
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).
Akinyinka Akinyoade
Netherlands/ Nigeria
Akinyinka Akinyoade, PhD Development Studies, possesses about two decades of research experience in the fields of Migration, Entrepreneurship and Business History, Diffusion of Reproductive Behavior, Decentralization for Public Services Delivery, and Productive Employment. He is a Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre Leiden in The Netherlands.
Asad Sayeed
Pakistan
Asad Sayeed is currently Director at the Collective of Social Science Research, a research and consulting organization based in Karachi, Pakistan. He has been associated with living wage estimates based on the Anker Methodology since 2015. Asad Sayeed holds a Ph.D in Economics from Cambridge University.
Jem Marie M. Nario
Philippines
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.
Lawrence Dacuycuy
Philippines
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.
Jabulile Monnakgotla
South Africa
Jabulile Monnakgotla is a Junior Research Fellow at the Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town. She holds a Master’s degree in Economic Science from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Manoj Thibbotuwawa
Sri Lanka
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.
Kiriya Kulkolkarn
Thailand
Kiriya Kulkolkarn holds a PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University. She specializes in labour economics and development economics, with research spanning labour market transformation, green industrial change, and social protection. Her recent work focuses on how structural shifts, such as the transition to electric vehicles and national decarbonization policies, affect workers, SMEs, and vulnerable groups in Thailand.
Kabeer Dawani
USA/ Pakistan
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.
Do Quynh Chi
Vietnam
Do Quynh Chi has an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge (2004) and a PhD in Work and Organizational Studies from the University of Sydney (2011). She is currently the Co-founder of the Research Center for Employment Relations (ERC) and Director of Living Wage Lab, an initiative by ERC to develop solutions to close the living wage gaps. She has been working with the Anker Methodology since 2015 and has conducted the Anker living wage assessments for all regions of Vietnam.