Andrew Bell (Ph.D. 2010, Michigan) was a Research Fellow in the Environment and Production Technology Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC. His current research portfolio focuses on the use of field instruments – such as discrete choice experiments, framed field experiments, randomized control trials – to inform behavior in agent-based models of coupled human-natural systems. Prior to this post, Andrew was a post-doctoral research fellow at The Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he focused on developing applications for paleo-climate histories.

Andrew J. Collins, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Old Dominion University in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering. He has a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Southampton, and his undergraduate degree in Mathematics was from the University of Oxford. He has published over 80 peer-review articles. He has been the Principal Investigator on projects funded to the amount of approximately $5 million. Dr. Collins has developed several research simulations including an award-winning investigation into the foreclosure contagion that incorporated social networks.

I am a social science researcher generating evidence and insight to understand inclusive markets and related socioeconomic processes, with a primary focus on inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship. My work identifies place-specific conditions that drive behavioural patterns among consumers, entrepreneurs, and other market actors, and examines how these patterns produce differential market outcomes, from technology adoption to market opportunity. I examine financial inclusion through two complementary lines of research: how place and socioeconomic conditions shape affordability perceptions and consumer behaviour, and how entrepreneurs’ structural positions within value chains shape their ability to participate and grow in underserved markets across industry, academic and policy platforms.