Howard Stein is a Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the Dept. of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan. He is a development economist educated in Canada, the US and the UK. He has published more than a dozen books and edited collections and more than 150 journal articles, book chapters and reviews. He has held various academic appointments at places like the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania; Hitotsubashi University, Japan; Sussex University, UK; Trinity College, Ireland; University of Lisbon, Portugal; and University of Leiden, Netherlands. His research and publications have largely focused on African countries and have covered a variety of topics including foreign aid, World Bank and IMF lending, finance and banking, neoliberalism, problems with Randomized Controlled Trials, health and gender, climate change, Covid-19, industrial policy, export processing zones, agricultural policy, African overpayment on sovereign bond issues, poverty and rural property right transformation, income and wealth inequality, Chinese economic relations and the institutionalization of neoclassical economics.