Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is the Ford Foundation Professor of Economics in the department of economics at MIT, a director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT, and a past president of the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD).
Dilip Mookherjee is Professor of Economics at Boston University. He is the author mostrecently of The Crisis in Government Accountability: Governance Reforms and Indian EconomicPerformance.