Experts

Claudio Milano is a social anthropologist with a background in economics. He is a Senior Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona and he is Co-Chair of the Commission on the Anthropology of Tourism of the (IUAES). His primary area of expertise lies into political economy of tourism. His research focuses on the dynamics of touristification processes, exploring how societies respond to and resist these changes through social movements,

David Miles was a member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England between May 2009 and September 2015. As an economist he has focused on the interaction between financial markets and the wider economy. He was Chief UK Economist at Morgan Stanley from October 2004 to May 2009. In 2004 he led a government review of the UK mortgage market. He recently completed a review for the UK Treasury on reference prices of UK government bonds. He is an advisor to the IMF and to the reserve Bank

Stephen is the Deputy Director for Macroeconomics at NIESR. He has a PhD from Northwestern University, supervised by the late Nobel Laureate Dale Mortensen. Prior to joining NIESR, he worked for 26 ½ years at the Bank of England in a variety of policy, research and managerial roles. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Durham University Business School and the University of Portsmouth. His research covers the broad area of macroeconomics with a focus on unemployment and inflation dynamics.

Helen is Deputy Director of the IFS and head of their Tax sector. She is chair of the Royal Economic Society’s Communications Committee. Her main research interests are the effects of the tax system on individuals and firms behaviour and the design of tax policy. She has written extensively on the tax treatment of self-employment. Her recent research also includes work on the drivers of firm investment and the UK productivity puzzle.

Anthony Patrick Leslie Minford CBE  is a British macroeconomist who is professor of applied economics at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, a position he has held since 1997. He was Edward Gonner Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Liverpool from 1976 to 1997. In 2016, Minford was a notable member of the Economists for Brexit group which, in opposition to the consensus view of economists, advocated the UK leaving the European Union.

Marisa is Associate Professor in Health Economics, a fellow of the Data Science Institute, member of the steering committees of the Nutrition and Food Network Strategy Group and the Vaccines strategy at Imperial College. She has expertise in leading multidisciplinary research in health economics on the economics and policy of healthcare innovation; impact of policies on organisational performance; the behavioural determinants of decision making including health risky behaviour.