Institutions matter, but actors, institutional designers and civil society, define the matter of institutions

Reza Majidzad is the director of Simorgh Development Group of Research Activities for Millennium Planning (RAMP). He is majored in Development economics and planning. His main areas of studies include development economics, game theory, institutional dynamics, and political economy. He has been focused on explaining underdevelopment from the viewpoint of a developing country, based an analytical framework incorporating institutional economics, game theory, and chaos theory. Simurgh Development Model and Development Actors Index are two outcomes of this efforts.