One crisis leads to another: Challenges and responses across emerging economies in the time of COVID

Alicia Bárcena Ibarra is the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). She had previously served as the Under-Secretary-General for Management at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, Chef de Cabinet and Deputy Chef de Cabinet to the former Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan. Prior to her time at ECLAC, Ms. Bárcena also served as Co-ordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean Sustainable Development Programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where she was responsible for the Environmental Citizenship Project at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Ms. Bárcena has also taught and conducted research in the Autonomous Metropolitan University of Mexico. She has published numerous articles on sustainable development, public policy, environmental issues and public participation.

Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research has covered globalisation, international trade and finance, employment patterns in developing countries, macroeconomic policy, gender and development, and the implications of recent growth in China and India. Her contribution to these fields has been recognised through numerous prizes, including the M. Adisheshaiah Award for distinguished contributions to the social sciences in India in 2015, the International Labour Organisation’s Decent Work Research Prize in 2010 and the NordSud Prize for Social Sciences of the Fondazione Pescarabruzzo in 2010. Alongside her research, she has advised the Indian Government and a number of United Nations agencies. Since 2002, she has been the Executive Secretary of International Development Economics Associates (IDEAS), an international network of heterodox development economists.

Richard Kozul-Wright is Director of the Globalisation and Development Strategies Division in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge and has had articles published in the Economic Journal, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, The Journal of Development Studies and the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. His latest book is The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism (with Paul Rayment), and he was co-editor of Transforming Economies: Making industrial policy work for growth, jobs and development for the International Labour Organization (ILO).

Antonio Andreoni is Associate Professor in Industrial Economics at University College London (UCL) and Head of Research at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP). He is also Visiting Associate Professor in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, SARChI Industrial Development, University of Johannesburg. His work on industrial systems and innovation, development and governance, financialisation and corruption and industrial policy have appeared in leading international journals. These include the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Development and Change, the Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, the Oxford Review of Economic Policy and Energy Policy. Antonio has also worked on research and policy issues for the World Bank, OECD, DFID, GIZ, UNIDO, UNCTAD, ILO, UNDP, UNECA, UNU-WIDER, and for governments in South Africa, Tanzania, Italy and the UK.