Rebecca Lee Harris is the research director at the Globalization Research Center at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. She worked as a research analyst and postdoctoral fellow in the Trade and Macroeconomics Division of IFPRI from 1997 to 2002. Rebecca's research focuses on linkages between macroeconomic policies and shocks and income distribution, concentrating on Latin America and the Caribbean.

Sherman Robinson is director of the Trade and Macroeconomics Division of IFPRI. He is an international authority in the area of policy-oriented general equilibrium modeling. At IFPRI, he has applied these and other tools to policy issues related to agricultural development, income distribution, poverty, intersectoral linkages, macroeconomic policy, and international trade.

Marcelle Thomas is a research analyst in the Trade and Macroeconomics Division of IFPRI, where she works on a variety of macroeconomic and trade issues. In recent years she has worked on building and maintaining social accounting matrices and computable general equilibrium models for use in macroeconomic analysis for the Philippines and Zimbabwe. She is currently working on WTO issues and their impact on the food security of developing countries.

Moataz El-Said is a research analyst in the Trade and Macroeconomics Division of IFPRI. He is currently working on his Ph.D. dissertation in economics from the George Washington University, and at IFPRI works on numerous research projects related to agricultural development, income distribution, poverty, and international trade.