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Who we are

IDEAS-Africa Network LBG (IDAN) is the Africa chapter of the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs). IDAN is a pluralist network of progressive African economists engaged in research, teaching and dissemination of critical analyses of economic policy and development. While based in Africa and led by economists from different regions of the continent, the network welcomes all, including the African diaspora who are committed to developing and utilizing alternative heterodox economic analysis tools for addressing contemporary development challenges

Governing Board

Charles Abugre

Executive Director, IDAN

Dzodzi Tsikata

Distinguished Research Professor, Development Studies, SOAS, University of London

Gyekye Tanoh

Ghanaian social activist and political economist

Nana Akua Anyidoho

Associate Professor, Institute of Statistical, Social, and Economic Research, University of Ghana

Yao Graham

Coordinator, Third World Network Africa

Scientific Advisory Committee

Abena Daagye Oduro

Associate Professor of Economics, University of Ghana

Adebayo Olukoshi

Distinguished Professor, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand

Crystal Simeoni

Director, NAWI: Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective

Fadel Kaboub

Associate Professor of Economics, Denison University, and President, Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity

Fiona Tregenna

Director, United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology

Franklin Obeng-Odoom

Professor of Global Development Studies, University of Helsinki

Godwin Murunga

Executive Secretary, CODESRIA

Howard Stein

Professor, University of Michigan

Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

Senior Lecturer of International Development, King’s College London

Lyne Ossome

Associate Professor and Director, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University

Radha Upadhyaya

Research Fellow, University of Nairobi

Redge Nkosi

Executive Director, Firstsource Money

IDAN Staff

Charles Abugre

Executive Director

Dorothy Gyamera-Ako

Head of Finance

Isaac Abotebuno Akolgo

Research and Program Manager

Lucia Makamure

Senior Program Officer, Operations and Program Quality

Marieme Toure

Senior Program Officer

Mayada Hassanain

Senior Programme Officer, Gender and Economics

Ndongo Samba Sylla

Africa Regional Director, Research and Policy

Pape Bouna Thiaw

Communication and Engagements Officer

Serves Amponsah Larbi

Driver and Logistics Officer

Una Kamwinang Ang-numbaala

Personal Assistant to the Executive Director

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