Experts

Laia is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Centre for Innovation and Research in Wellbeing at the University of Sussex. Her research interests are in studying the pathways by which the discrimination and marginalisation of people and places lead to social and health inequalities across the life course, with a specific focus on racism and heteronormativity as systems of oppression.

Thorsten Beck is professor of banking and finance at Cass Business School and CEPR research fellow. His research and policy work have focused, among other issues, on bank resolution, macroprudential policies, SME finance, competition in banking, household access to finance and cross-border banking. He has worked as consultant for central banks and international financial institutions and has ample policy experience across advanced and emerging countries.

Areas of expertise: Risk and Risk Management, Health Management, Public Private Partnership, Public Sector Management.

Ralf has been teaching mathematics, statistics and econometrics at all levels at the University of Manchester since 2005. His research interest is in time-series and financial econometrics and also in the pedagogy of teaching economics, and quantitative skills in particular. He has particular expertise in helping students to learn coding skills as well as in the use of online clips and discussion boards as part of a blended learning offer.

Sascha O. Becker is Professor of Economics & Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics at Monash University, Melbourne, and part-time Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He studied Economics at the Universities of Bonn, Germany, and at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique (ENSAE) in Paris, France. He obtained his Ph.D. at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence in 2001. He works on forced displacement in historic and modern

Paula Bejarano Carbo is an Associate Economist in the Macroeconomic Modelling and Forecasting team at NIESR, contributing primarily to the quarterly UK and Global Economic Outlooks and the monthly NIESR trackers. Paula joined NIESR after completing her MPhil in Economics at the University of Oxford.  Her research interests lie in monetary policy, wealth inequality and political economy.