Hamid E. Ali is Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy and Dean of the School of Public Administration and Development Economics at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar, and an Associate Professor (on leave) at The American University in Cairo’s School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Egypt. He holds an M.Sc. in Economics and a PhD in Economics and Public Policy both from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and is the author of Darfur Political Economy: A Quest for Development (2014) and co-author with Christos Kollias of Defense Spending, Natural Resources, and Conflict (2017). He has published in numerous scholarly journals. Shahjahan Bhuiyan is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Administration at The American University in Cairo’s School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Egypt. He was previously Dean of the KIMEP University’s College of Social Sciences, Kazakhstan. Bhuiyan holds an MPhil in Public Administration from the University of Bergen, Norway, and a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Bonn, Germany. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Oxford Institute of Population Aging (OIA) and the Inaugural Democratic Governance Fellow in UNDP’s Oslo Governance Center. He has published in numerous scholarly journals and has authored, edited, or contributed to books.