Advisory board
The CDES Advisory Board members are distinguished scholars with expertise in the field of development and sustainability. Our Advisory Board provides strategic counsel to develop our future research strategy to position us to be a globally recognised leading research centre.
Mary Amiti
Vice President of the Microeconomic Studies Function
Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Christopher B. Barrett
Professor of Agricultural and Development Economics
Cornell University.
Michael R. Carter
Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Director of the BASIS Assets and Market Access Innovation Lab
University of California, Davis.
Ian Coxhead
Emeritus Professor, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Glenn Denning
Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs
Director, Master of Public Administration in Development Practice (MPA-DP), Columbia University.
Hal Hill
H.W. Arndt Professor Emeritus of Southeast Asian Economies
Arndt Corden Department of Economics
Crawford School, Australian National University.
Jikun Huang
Professor, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences
Founding Director of the Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy
Peking University.
Xin Meng
Professor, Research School of Economics
Australian National University.
Dilip Mookherjee
Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Economic Development
Boston University.
Mari Pangestu
Managing Director, Development Policy and Partnerships at the World Bank, Professor of Economics, University of Indonesia, and Senior Fellow at Columbia School of International and Public Affairs.
Shekhar Shah
Vice Chairman, Academic Advisory Council, Indian School of Public Policy
Former Director-General, National Council of Applied Economic Research in New Delhi and Economic Adviser for South Asia, the World Bank.
Sudarno Sumarto
Founding member and Senior Research Fellow at SMERU
Policy advisor at the National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K), Office of the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia.
Rohini Somanathan
Professor of Economics
Delhi School of Economics.
Dushni Weerakoon
Executive Director, Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS) and Head of its Macroeconomic Policy research.
Former advisory board members
Martin Ravallion
Former Edmond D. Villani Chair of Economics
Georgetown University
Former Director of the World Bank’s Research Department, the Development Research Group.