Laura Alfers is the International Coordinator of WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing), a global network that supports workers in the informal economy to secure their livelihoods, rights, and recognition, and a Research Associate at Rhodes University in South Africa. She has worked with WIEGO for over 15 years, leading efforts to link […]

Takyiwaa Manuh is Emerita Professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana. She served as the Former Director at the Social Development Policy Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Ethiopia, and Professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana where she was also Director of the Institute of African […]

Katja Hujo is head of the UNRISD Bonn office and leads the Transformative Social Policy Programme. Katja’s academic work focuses on social policy, poverty and inequality, migration, financing social policy and eco-social contracts. She studied economics and political science at Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) and National University of Córdoba, Argentina, and holds a […]

Jimi O. Adesina is the Chair in Social Policy at the College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa. Educated at the University of Ibadan (Nigeria) and Warwick University (UK), Adesina taught at the University of Ibadan (Nigeria), was a Professor of Sociology at Rhodes University (South Africa), and Professor and Head of Department at […]

Hania Sholkamy is an Associate Professor at the Social Research Center, American University in Cairo. She is an Egyptian anthropologist, with a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences of the University of London. Her work has focused on gender, health, and social protection in Egypt. She designed and piloted the cash […]