Kaushik Basu is Professor of Economics and Carl Marks
Professor of International Studies in the Economics Department at
Cornell University. He is Editor of Social Choice and Welfare and
Associate Editor of The Journal of Economic Perspectives and
The Journal of Development Economics. He is the author of many
books and articles, including The Less Developed Economy,
(Blackwell Publishers, 1984), Lectures in Industrial
Organization Theory (Blackwell Publishers, 1993), and
Analytical Development Economics (1997).

Henrik Horn is Professor of International Economics at
Stockholm University. His current research focuses on various
aspects of the WTO, with particular emphasis on the functioning of
its Dispute Settlement system.

Lisa Román is the Secretary to the Expert Group on
Development Issues (EGDI) and has been with the secretariat since
1999. She has a background as a development economist and is the
author of Institutions in Transition: Vietnamese State Bank
Reform (1999).

Judith Shapiro is Professor of Health Economics at the
New Economic School, and has been a member of the EGDI since 1995.
She is the author of a number of articles on Russian health, labor
and mortality, and three co-authored books on transformation and
integration in Eastern Europe.