Roberto Bonfatti has a part-time appointment as an Assistant Professor with the School of Economics, University of Nottingham, his main position being at the University of Padua (Italy). He was a full time assistant professor at the  University of Nottingham between 2012 and 2018. Before that, he was a Junior Research Fellow (post-doc) in economics at St John’s College, Oxford, and a member of the Oxford Center for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCARRE). He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics (2010), and B.Sc. in economics and finance from Bocconi University.

Björn Brey is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Nottingham. His supervisors are Giovanni Facchini and Richard Upward. His primary research interests include development and international economics; secondary interests include economic history and political economy.