Nikos Tzavidis is Professor of Statistical Methodology at the University of Southampton. His research focuses on topics in small area estimation, outlier robust estimation, quantile regression, applications of machine learning to official statistics and the integration of survey and geospatial data. Nikos’s work is supported by funding from the UK Economic and Social Research Council, the European Commission, the UK Office for National Statistics, FCDO, the United Nations and the World Bank.

Heath Henderson is an associate professor of economics at Drake University and an associate editor of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. He holds a PhD in economics and an MA in international politics from American University in Washington, DC. His research has been published in many of the leading journals in development studies, including Journal of Development Economics, World Development, and American Journal of Agricultural Economics, among many others.

Oscar Barriga-Cabanillas is an Economist working for The World Bank in the Southeast Asia team of the Poverty and Equity practice. His work in recent years has focused on developing tools for the targeting of social programs using spatial and mobile phone data, and creating protocols that expand eligibility to vulnerable households. He holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Davis and an MSc degree in Economics from Universidad de los Andes. 

Paul Corral is a Senior Economist with the Poverty & Equity Team as the team lead of the Vietnam program, based in Hanoi. He is also the global co-lead for the Poverty and Equity Policy Lab, a global initiative aimed at providing distributional analysis of policy reforms. Paul led the work on the Guidelines to Small Area Estimation for Poverty Mapping and has published in the areas of small area estimation, agricultural development, income diversification, and human capital accumulation.