Experts

Tabassum Rahman is a PhD student. She is conducting her research on Indigenous Australian women’s smoking and quitting behaviour including smoking relapse in the context of pregnancy and postpartum periods to inform culturally sensitive smoking cessation interventions for Indigenous Australian women. Tabassum has experience of working in the field of violence against women, and with Indigenous communities, and early childhood development in Bangladesh.

Helmut Rainer is Professor of Economics at the University of Munich and Director of the Center for Labor and Demographic Economics of the ifo Institute. He has conducted theoretical and empirical research in labor economics, demographic economics and applied microeconomics. Next to this, he has been involved in several policy evaluations for ministries in Germany.

Tarun Ramadorai has a broad range of research interests in the areas of household finance, asset pricing, and international finance. He has published on these topics in a number of scholarly journals in Finance and Economics. In addition to his academic work, Tarun has taken on several advisory roles in the area of financial regulation and policy in both India and Europe.

Vasudha Ramakrishna is a Research Associate at the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE). She works on research projects in development economics on technology adoption, behaviour change, and the evaluation of large-scale programs, under the supervision of Prof. Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, conducting data analysis and providing research support. Vasudha holds an MS in economics from Tufts University, where she worked on research relating to agricultural technology adoption, and

Kamalini Ramdas is Deloitte Chair in Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Her research focuses on identifying ways to expand access to healthcare and information services through business model innovation. She uses empirical methods including field experiments. She has served as Co-PI on a $1.2M grant to design and implement profitable cardiac preventive care. She is a Department Editor at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and President of the Manufacturing & Service Operations

Maria’s research focuses on the economics of crime, organized crime and corruption. Together with her co-authors, she has investigated the joint effect of organised crime and corruption on economic growth. Mara has published the following papers on the topic: a theory of organized crime, corruption and economic growth, and an empirical analysis of organized crime, corruption and economic growth. In another piece of empirical research she has investigated the determinants of crime versus organised