Dr Joseph Ato Forson is a Senior Fellow for Dataking Consulting. He is a Lecturer at the School of Business of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), where he is affiliated with the Department of Applied Finance and Policy Management. He is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Development Finance (CIDEF) and a certified fellow of the Ghana Institute of Planners (GIP). His research interest is in Development Finance, Development Policy, Sustainable Livelihoods, Corporate Governance, Economics of Corruption, and Applied Macroeconomics.

Dr. Zechariah Langnel is a Senior Fellow with Dataking Research Lab of Dataking Consulting. He holds a PhD in Development Administration from the Graduate School of Public Administration, National Institute of Development Administration, Bangkok, Thailand. His research interests include; governance, organizational analysis and management, smart cities and society, development policy, and political economy.