Derick Boyd is Executive Director of the Caribbean Centre for Money and Finance, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, and Reader in Economics, University of East London, where he teaches econometrics and macroeconomics. He was a Fulbright-Hays visiting senior scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, and a former lecturer in economics at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
Ron Smith is Professor of Applied Economics at Birkbeck, University of London, where he teaches econometrics and statistics. He has also been a visiting professor at London Business School and the University of Colorado. He has published on a variety of topics in applied econometrics and defence economics.