Experts

Professor Dina M. Siddiqi is a cultural anthropologist by training. Her research — grounded in the study of Bangladesh — joins critical development studies, transnational feminist theory, and the anthropology of labor and Islam.  She has published extensively on the global garment industry and supply chains, non-state gender justice systems, and the cultural politics of Islam, feminism, and nationalism.  She is currently engaged in a project on discourses of national development and

Zahra grew up in Pakistan and completed her PhD from Northwestern University in the US. She has been at the School of Economics at the University of Bristol since 2018. Zahra works in the fields of micro-econometrics, labour economics and development. She has investigated questions related to gender and the labour market as well as identification of treatment effects using data generated from social experiments in her research.

Abu is a postdoctoral researcher in economics at the Technical University of Munich. His main research interest lies in the field of development economics, particularly in the economic consequences of ethnic discrimination, mental health, endogenous formation of preferences, and the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic in developing countries. Abu holds a PhD in economics from the University of Southampton, an MSc in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Southampton, and a BSc

Hans is a senior lecturer in economics at the University of Bristol and an affiliated researcher at VIVE – The Danish Center for Social Science Research. He is an applied micro-economist working on topics in education, health, gender and inequality in general

Adan Silverio Murillo is an Assistant Professor in the School of Government at Tecnologico de Monterrey. His research focuses on development economics and family economics. In particular, he works on two important issues affecting individuals living in developing countries: women’s empowerment and violence. In Mexico, he worked as Deputy Director of Econometric Analysis for the PROGRESA-Oportunidades conditional cash transfer program, and as Deputy General Director of Impact Evaluation at the

Dr Neil Simcock’s research focuses on inequality and vulnerability, particularly in relation to energy systems and the use of energy in the home. Much of his recent work has investigated the causes and consequences of, and potential solutions to, fuel or energy poverty. This research aims to uncover the institutional and structural arrangements that render some people vulnerable to experiencing energy poverty, such as the design of housing and energy markets, transitions to “net zero”