Experts

Raj is the strategic lead for policy engagement and impact at Understanding Society. He was previously a Director at the Learning & Skills Network, where he ran a large commercial research function and an independent think tank. His career includes formulating strategy and policy at one of the UK’s largest campaigns to stimulate enterprise culture amongst young adults, and heading up Research and Development at the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (now

Dr Elise Paul joined the Institute of Epidemiology & Health at UCL in September 2020. Broadly speaking, her research focuses on psychosocial predictors of mental and physical health outcomes across the lifespan. She completed her PhD in 2017 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Her doctoral thesis examined predictors of self-harm ideation and behaviours in childhood and adolescence, with a particular focus on child abuse and neglect. Since then, she has worked as a consultant for the World

Helen Paul is an economic historian based at the University of Southampton in the Economics Department. She also holds an Honorary post at UCL’s Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was Honorary Secretary of the Economic History Society. She is interested in the Financial Revolution, particularly the South Sea Bubble and the history of enslavement.

Gillian Paull is a Senior Associate in the Public Policy practice at Frontier Economics. She undertakes research on the labour market and family-related policy for a variety of government departments and non-governmental organisations, with a particular focus on evaluating policy relating to childcare, mothers’ employment and poverty. Gillian has previously worked for the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and also served as a Specialist Advisor to the

Thomas Peeters is an associate professor at the Erasmus School of Economics, where he runs the Strategy Economics Research Group and the Erasmus Center for Applied Sports Economics (ECASE). He is a research fellow of the Tinbergen Institute and a member of the Erasmus Research Institute in Management (ERIM). He studies questions on the intersection of strategy economics, industrial organization, and sports economics. He obtained a PhD in applied economics at the University of Antwerp.

Martin Peitz is professor of economics at the University of Mannheim and a director of the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation – MaCCI. Together with Paul Belleflamme he wrote the leading graduate textbook “Industrial Organization: Markets and Strategies,” and the forthcoming book “The Economics of Platforms: Concepts and Strategy”. He has been advising a number of competition authorities, sector regulators, and government agencies in Europe and abroad.