Featured Economists

Featured economist, March 2025
Joy Kiiru
Joy is a senior lecturer at the Department of Economics and Development Studies at the University of Nairobi, with a PhD from Bonn University, Germany. Her research focuses on development economics, particularly financial inclusion, rural development, and the economics of gender and social inclusion.

Past featured economists
Joy Kiiru
Martin Fiszbein
María Florencia Pinto
Daniel Suryadarma
Mduduzi Biyase
Anisha Sharma
Juan Chaparro
Carolyn Chisadza
Giorgio Chiovelli
Gyozo Gyongyosi
Rui Zhang
María Lombardi
Khadijat Busola Amolegbe
Juthathip Jongwanich
Luiza Nassif Pires
Awa Ambra Seck
Isabel Ruiz Olaya
Surbhi Kesar
Marie Christelle Mabeu
Una Osili
Marlène Koffi
Farid Farrokhi
Dalia Ghanem
Sophie Osotimehin
Hundanol Kebede
Belinda Archibong
Lydia Assouad
Emmanuel B. Mensah
Jahen Rezki
Emilio Depetris-Chauvin
Abdoulaye Ndiaye
Leila Baghdadi
Leila Baghdadi is Professor of Economics at ESSECT, University of Tunis, where she holds the World Trade Organization Chair. She is an executive board member of the Central Bank of Tunisia since August 2019. She was appointed as a member of the Tunisian Council of...