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Marinella Leone is Associate Professor at the University of Pavia. She received her PhD in economics from the University of Sussex in 2013 and worked as Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (UK) until 2019. 

Her research focuses on the study of child and adolescent cognitive and socio-emotional development and on gender-based violence. In previous research, she investigated the short, long-term and intergenerational impact of conflicts.

Livia Alfonsi is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School, a Research Affiliate at CID, CEPR, LEAP and IZA and an Invited Researcher at J-PAL. She holds a PhD from UC Berkeley.

Livia studies labor markets in low-income settings. 

Mahima Vasishth is an Economist at the Economics and Statistics Unit, Center for Effective Governance for Indian States. Prior to this, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the Laboratory for Effective Anti-Poverty Policies, Bocconi University, and received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Irvine in June 2023.  

Mahima's research interests are in the fields of Labor Economics, Development Economics, and Public Economics. She uses experimental and quasi-experimental techniques to study how laws and social norms influence responses to gender-based violence, the economic impacts of women's empowerment, and the role of social inclusion in human capital investments. She is also a Research Affiliate at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and collaborates with the International Monetary Fund, and the National Council of Applied Economic Research, providing expertise to develop evidence-based strategies aimed at reducing gender gaps in economic opportunities and enhancing welfare programs.

Awa Ambra Seck is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and the International Economy unit at Harvard Business School. She graduated from Harvard in May 2023 with a PhD in Political Economy and Government (Economics track). 

Her research focuses on understanding the historical determinants of emigration from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe and its dynamics today. She is also passionate about understanding how cultural traits and economics intertwine, with a focus on the ethnic groups of sub-Saharan Africa.

Before joining Harvard, she completed a Master of Science in Economics and Social Sciences at Bocconi University. She received her bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto.