Professor Lisa Cameron is the James Riady Chair of Asian Economics and Business in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne and Program Director of the Disadvantage and Wellbeing in the Asia-Pacific group at the Melbourne Institute, University of Melbourne. She is an empirical micro- and development economist whose research examines issues of social welfare and poverty with a focus on the welfare of disadvantaged groups, including women. Her work on gender inequality includes research on the relationship between cash transfers and domestic violence; the consequences of criminalising sex work; a body of work on gender inequality in the Indonesian labour market; the consequences of child marriage and determinants of maternal mortality in Indonesia; and most recently an evaluation of an online intervention designed to influence gender norms around women’s work. She has contributed to the development of the gender equality programs at international agencies such as the World Bank and for Australia’s international aid program.
Donna Ginther is the Roy A. Roberts & Regents Distinguished Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Policy & Social Research at the University of Kansas and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to joining the University of Kansas faculty, she was a research economist and associate policy adviser in the regional group of the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta from 2000 to 2002 and taught at Washington University from 1997 to 2000 and Southern Methodist University from 1995 to 1997. Her major fields of study are scientific labor markets, gender differences in employment outcomes, wage inequality, science policy, and investments in children.
Jessica Pan is an Associate Professor of Economics at the National University of Singapore. She is also a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). She received a Bachelor’s in economics from the University of Chicago, followed by an MBA and PhD from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.