3rd Annual SEEDS Conference
April 27–28, 2023
2023 Keynote Speaker
Dean Jolliffe is a lead economist in the Development Data Group of the World Bank and member of the LSMS-ISA team. He has extensive experience in the design and implementation of household surveys and is currently managing ongoing LSMS-ISA work in Ethiopia. He has also worked in the South Asia region at the Bank on poverty assessments for Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal.
Previously, Jolliffe was a research economist at the Economic Research Service of USDA, an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, an assistant professor at the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education in Prague, and a post-doctoral fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute. He holds appointments as a research fellow with the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, and as a research affiliate with the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan.
Dean received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.
2nd Annual SEEDS Conference, Georgia Institute of Technology
April 23 - 24, 2020
Plenary Speaker
Oliver T. Carr Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Economics, The George Washington University
Conference Program Committee
Shatakshee Dhongde, Allen Hyde, Olga Shemyakina, Anjali Thomas (Georgia Tech)
Natalia Bueno, Paloma Moyano, Renard Sexton (Emory), Charles Hankla (Georgia State)
Inaugural SEEDS Conference 2019
The inaugural SEEDS conference was held on April 26, 2019, at Georgia Tech. The conference brought together more than 20 invited speakers from a variety of disciplines including economics, geography, political science, and sociology. Invited speakers represented several higher education institutes in the area, including Agnes Scott College, Emory University, Georgia State University, Kennesaw State University, Spelman College, and the University of Georgia, at Athens.
About SEEDS
SEEDS or South East Exchange of Development Studies is an interdisciplinary research group of scholars conducting research in the broad area of development. The inaugural SEEDS conference in April 2019 featured speakers from several higher education institutes in the area, including Agnes Scott College, Emory University, Georgia State University, Kennesaw State University, Spelman College, and the University of Georgia, at Athens.