Alejandro is a Senior Economist in the social protection team at the FAO. He started with FAO after working with UNICEF, where he led research on social policy issues, including child poverty analysis, public finance and social protection in South Africa and Tanzania. Alejandro has also worked with the United Nations Development Programme in social policy research and analysis, technical advice to governments, support to intergovernmental processes and policy dissemination and advocacy.

Garima is an Economist in the Social Protection team of the FAO. She has previously worked as a Senior Impact Evaluation Specialist with the Oxford Policy Management, where she focused on the evaluation of health, nutrition and health behavior change programs in India, as well as being an Associate of the Clinton Health Access Initiative. Garima has also worked on the evaluation of cash transfer programs in Ghana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. She has a PhD in public policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA).

Thu Hien is a consultant in the Social Protection team of the FAO and has a PhD in Economics from the Catholic University of Louvain and the University of Bielefeld. Her research addresses the issues of poverty, inclusive growth, social protection, migration, gender and regional development. Before working with FAO, she worked with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the OECD Development Centre.

Ervin is an Economist in the Social Protection team of the FAO. Ervin works on the generation of knowledge and evidence for the support of agricultural and social protection policies. Specifically, his work focuses on the econometric evaluation of cash transfer programs in Sub-Saharan Africa, but also on labor market and natural resource market issues. He also has experience in designing studies and implementing surveys. Ervin holds a PhD in Econometrics and Applied Economics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata.