David Lam is Professor of Economics and Research Professor in the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. He is Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His research focuses on the interaction of economics and demography in developing countries. He has worked extensively in Brazil and South Africa, where his research analyses links between education, labour markets, and income inequality. He has served as president of the Population Association of America and was a member of the Committee on Population of the US National Academy of Sciences.
Ahmed Elsayed is a Senior Research Associate at the IZA - Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, Germany. He co-coordinates the IZA's program area 'Gender, Growth and Labour Markets in Low Income Countries' (G2LM