John Rand is a professor at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. He is also Non-Resident Research Fellow with UNU-WIDER. His research centres around the microeconomics of development with a focus on enterprise behaviour and dynamics. He has published widely in the fields of development economics and industrial policy in developing countries.
Finn Tarp is Professor at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) and Coordinator of the UCPH Development Economics Research Group (DERG). Director of UNU-WIDER from 2009-18, and now a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of UNU-WIDER. Professor Tarp is a leading international expert on development strategy and foreign aid, with an interest in poverty, income distribution and growth, micro- and macroeconomic policy and modelling, agricultural sector policy and planning, household/enterprise development, and economic adjustment and reform as well as climate change, sustainability, and natural resources. He has published widely in leading economics and development journals and books by international academic publishers.