João Z. Carrilho works at Observatório do Meio Rural (OMR), collaborating in land policy–related research projects. He is a member of the Commission of the Land National Policy Review. He had served at local, district, and province levels. At national level, Carrilho served as the chairman of the Institute of Rural Development and Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. His recent research interest is sustainability in peri-urban territory informal occupation and spatial planning.

António S. Cruz is an independent researcher in economics collaborating with UCPH-DERG. He has worked before for the National Directorate of Statistics at the National Commission of Planning, the Ministry of Planning and Finance, the Ministry of Planning and Development and as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique. He has published on industrialisation and related issues, social accounting matrix, and macroeconomic issues.

Ines A. Ferreira is assistant professor in UCPH-DERG. She works on different topics related to inequality and institutions, with a particular focus on Mozambique. She was previously engaged in projects on state fragility, aid effectiveness, poverty measurement and the determinants of individual behaviour and preferences.

Johnny Flentø has 38 years of experience in international development with the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Copenhagen University, and several years of research in institutional and economic development. He is a seasoned diplomat with a focus on international development through bilateral and multilateral frameworks. He has significant experience in all aspects of diplomacy with a focus on development programming and policy dialogue. He had spent majority of his career abroad in Mozambique, Benin, Tanzania, and Bangladesh.

Salvador Forquilha is assistant professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Eduardo Mondlane University, and a senior researcher at the Institute for Social and Economic Studies (IESE) in Mozambique. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Bordeaux in France. His research focuses on state building and political violence in Mozambique.

Paulo Ivo Garrido is a retired professor of anatomy and surgery at the Eduardo Mondlane University. He was Minister of Health between 2005 and 2010, and had a long career as a medical surgeon, occupying different leadership positions as well.

Sam Jones is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER based in Mozambique, on extended leave from his position as an associate professor in the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. He is a versatile economist with expertise in macroeconomic analysis, development finance (including foreign aid), microeconomic empirical methods, education and labour markets. Sam’s work has been published in leading journals, such as Journal of Development Economics, World Bank Economic Review, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Food Policy, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Economic Inequality, World Development, Journal of Development Studies, African Development Review, and Journal of African Economies. Much of Sam’s academic research has focused on sub-Saharan Africa and he has previously worked extensively in Mozambique, spending seven years as an advisor in the Ministry of Finance.

José Jaime Macuane is associate professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique. His research interest areas are political institutions, democratisation, state reform, and political economy of development in Africa and Mozambique.

Mouzinho Mário is an independent consultant, currently with the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Mozambique, after an academic career that spanned over three decades at Eduardo Mondlane University. His research interests include higher education policy and development, faculty development, and teacher education. He has a number of publications in the fields of higher education, teacher education, adult education and literacy, and quality of student learning in primary schools.

Celso M. Monjane is a research associate in the Department of International Relations, at the University of the Witwatersrand. His research experience and interest include examining governance in Africa, particularly with regard to business interests of elites and political economy of natural resources, applying also data science and statistical modelling. He has a promising record of scholarly publications in several academic journals on the politics of Development in Mozambique.

Carlos Muianga is an associate researcher at IESE in Mozambique, having been a permanent researcher for the last 12 years. He is currently a PhD candidate in development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. His PhD research is on the political economy of agrarian capitalism in Mozambique, with focus on the Limpopo Valley His research interests include the political economy of the patterns of accumulation; economic and social transformation in Mozambique; and the agrarian political economy and the agrarian question in Mozambique. He is an editorial assistant of the Journal of Agrarian Change.

Rui de Nazaré Ribeiro has an MSc in rural and agricultural development. He is an active member of Observatório do Meio Rural (OMR), providing inputs to research and advocacy work. He has been engaged in rural and agricultural development in Mozambique for more than 40 years. Through his career, Ribeiro has held strategic positions within agriculture public institutions dealing with technical and policy issues. He is a senior consultant, and in the last 25 years, he has been involved in managing major agriculture and rural development programmes and doing studies related to the agriculture institutional environment, agriculture markets systems, seed sub-sector and agribusiness.

Ricardo Santos is a UNU-WIDER Research Fellow and a technical advisor to the Centre of Studies in Economics and Management of Eduardo Mondlane University. His research focuses on education and labor economics, poverty and inequality, and institutional economics of aid.

Leonardo Santos Simão is a medical doctor, with a master’s degree in public health, a former Minister of Health and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mozambique. He is now the Executive Director of the Joaquim Chissano Foundation, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Manhiça Foundation (dedicated to health research), and High Representative for Africa of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP). His main areas of interest are medical research and social development.

Finn Tarp is Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen, and former Director of UNU-WIDER (2009–18). He is a leading international expert on development strategy and policy. In addition to his university posts, he has held senior appointments and advisory positions with international organisations and several national governments and is a member of a series of international committees and advisory bodies. He has led development projects and integrated policy advisory/field-level work in some 35 countries across the world. This includes a long list of duties in Mozambique during more than four decades (with 10+ years in the country). He has published more than 130 articles in internationally refereed academic journals – including The Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, World Bank Economic Review, European Economic Review, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, World Development, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Land Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, Feminist Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, and Climatic Change – alongside 6 books, 29 edited book volumes/special journal issues, and 67 book chapters.

João Carlos Trindade is a retired judge of the Supreme Court of Mozambique, former dean of the Legal and Judicial Training Centre (1999–2006), and Professor of Criminal Procedural Law and History of Mozambican Law at the Law School of Eduardo Mondlane University (1994–2001). He is also President of the Board of the General Meeting of CTV – Centro Terra Viva, Estudos e Advocacia Ambiental. He has carried out several studies and research activities, with papers published in the areas of sociology of law and the administration of justice.

Mariam Umarji is a public finance expert working in Africa. She is currently doing her PhD in global health and development with a focus on the health workforce and public financial management (PFM). She has done PFM work in developing countries for more than 15 years.