After spending two decades leading policy research at the UN, and one decade running environmental & society empowerment NGOs, Alfred Latigo, PhD Environment & Natural Resource Economics, realized that there had to be a better way of helping policymakers and researchers who are looking for evidence on what works and what does not.  Dr. Latigo is a distinguished policy analyst with more than 25 years of professional experience. Alfred knows first-hand information gap in policy analysis, monitoring and impact evaluation. As a policy researcher, Alfred has founded and led two previous nonprofit policy institutions. He holds an appointment as an adjunct professor/faculty member in Environmental Economics at the Flowers School of Management and Technology, Germany.  Dr. Latigo is a member of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, USA and a member of the International Association of Feminist Economists (IAFFE).  He has authored more than 70 articles, books, or book chapters on various topics in inclusive growth: environmental and household economics research.  Alfred is an amateur yet determined golfer.

Anushree Sinha, (PhD Economics—Gender & Economic Policy) Member argi Board of Di-rectors; Senior Fellow, National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi, India; Associate of the Department of International Development, University of Oxford, UK; Senior UN Consultant; Project Director, ILO Study on ‘The Employment Dimension of Infrastructure Investment in India: A quantitative assessment”; Member, Global Network-GAIN at ILO; Pioneer, in trade analysis of gender and informal workers with economy-wide modeling. [INDIA]

Geoffrey Grant (Prof)―Executive Management & Strategic Plan-ning) Member argI Board of Di-rectors; Senior researcher/co-discoverer, Laboratory of Nobel Laureate Roger Guil-lemin; CEO, MICROTEL, British Co-lumbia, Canada; Director/Investor, Appli-cation & Engineering, USA; Principal Investigator,** U.S. Dept. of Commerce. Economic Development Administration Grants; IRAP Project Manager, National (Canada) Research Council; Focus: Tech-nology Transfer, Innovation Commercialization and Technology Startups. [USA]

Jacques Charmes (Prof)―Member argi Board of Directors & Chair, Policy Research Committee; Emeritus Research Director Institute of Research for Development (IRD), Paris France; Consultant to the UN Economic Commission for Africa, OECD, ILO on national accounts concept; a specialist in the design, implementation and analysis of statistical surveys on the informal sector; Member, UN Statistics developing UN National System of Accounts; Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI); formerly Professor at University of Versailles St.Quentin en Yvelines; Head, French Scientific Research Institute for Development and Co-Operation (ORSTOM). [FRANCE]

(M.Sc. Economics), ―Member argi Board of Di-rectors; Vice President, Global Water Group, Inc, USA, President/CEO—National Radio-frequency identification (RFID) Center /COO at the Accelerator for Convergent Technologies, LLC, Director, Shop-to-Help-Others (Changing the way Americans Give to the Needy). In 2012, responsible for emergency assistance with over 5,000 water filter buckets (for clean water) to Haiti and Kenya.. [USA]

Member, argi Board of Directors; President CEO, R&G Eco-nomic Consultants LLC, USA; formerly Executive Secretary/Regional Delegate to Southern Africa, AU Regional Office, Malawi, and Executive Secretary of the Permanent Observer Mission of the African Union to the United Nations, New York. (USA).