Arkebe Oqubay is a Senior Minister and Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia and has been at the centre of policymaking for over twenty-five years. He is a research associate at the Centre of African Studies in the University of London, and holds a PhD in development studies from SOAS, University of London. He is the former mayor of Addis Ababa and winner of the ABN Best African Mayor of 2006, and finalist for the World Mayor Award 2006. He is a recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star and serves as board chair of several leading public organizations and international advisory boards. His work includes Made in Africa: Industrial Policy in Ethiopia (OUP, 2015); African Economic Development: Evidence, Theory, and Policy (OUP, 2019); and China-Africa and an Economic Transformation (2019, OUP). He was recognized as one of the 100 Most Influential Africans of 2016, and a 'leading thinker on Africa's strategic development' by the New African.
Christopher Cramer is Professor of the Political Economy of Development at SOAS, University of London. He is a vice-chair of the Royal Africa Society and Chair of the Scientific Committee of the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE). His publications include Civil War is Not a Stupid Thing: Accounting for Violence in Developing Countries (2006), African Economic Development: Evidence, Theory, and Policy (with Sender and Oqubay, OUP, 2020) and The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy (2019, co-edited with Cheru and Oqubay). He led the research project Fairtrade, Employment, and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia and Uganda.
Ha-Joon Chang (PhD) is reader in economics at the University of Cambridge. His main books include Kicking away the Ladder, Bad Samaritans, 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism, and Economics: The User's Guide. By 2018, his writing will have been translated into forty-one languages in forty-four countries. Worldwide, his books have sold around 2 million copies. He is the winner of the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize and the 2005 Wassily Leontief Prize.
Richard Kozul-Wright (PhD) is Director of the Globalisation and Development Strategies Division in UNCTAD. He has worked at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva. Dr Kozul-Wright is the author of many books, including The Rise and Fall of Global Microcredit: Development, Debt and Disillusion (2018, with S. Blankenburg and M. Bateman), Securing Peace: State-Building and Economic Development in Post-Conflict Countries (2011, with P. Fortunato), Climate Protection and Development (2012, with Frank Ackerman) and The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism (2008, with Paul Rayment). He is a frequent contributor to newspapers worldwide on economic issues, including The Financial Times, The Guardian, and Project Syndicate.