Experts

Apostolis Philippopoulos is professor emeritus at the Department of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business. He holds a PhD from Birkbeck College, London. He taught at the University of Essex (1989-1996) before moving to Athens. He is a research fellow at CESifo Munich and the Hellenic Observatory at the LSE. He currently serves as a member of the Hellenic Fiscal Council. He has published more than sixty research papers on macroeconomic theory and policy.

David, an Associate Director at the IFS, has particular expertise in two areas. Firstly, devolved and local government finance, where he has analysed fiscal rules, funding allocations and local risks in the context of Covid-19. Secondly, tax and social protection policy in developing countries, where he helps lead the DfID-funded TaxDev programme, which has been supporting partner governments’ policy development and appraisal and publishing broader research and analysis on the Covid-19 crisis.

Jim Phillips is a leading authority on deindustrialisation in Scotland. He has pioneered the use of a moral economy framework for explaining the social and political results of lost employment in industrial sectors since the 1950s. Deindustrialisation was broadly accepted as fair in Scotland in the 1960s and 1970s because the security of workers and communities affected was protected by Labour governments at UK level. Employment alternatives were stimulated. Conservative governments at UK level in

Jeremy Phillipson is a Professor of Rural Development at the Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University, and Director of the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE). He has research interests on the development needs of rural economies and fishing communities, processes of expertise exchange within rural land management and the integration of social and natural sciences in resource management. He was Assistant Director of the UK Research Council’s Rural Economy and Land Use

Angus is a research economist at the IFS working within the Human Capital Development sector. His work focuses on inequalities in child development and families as well as the effect of early intervention programs on child development.

Harry Pickard is a research associate at the University of Sheffield. His main research interests are in the areas of political and public economics, particularly in voting behaviour, British political economy and Brexit, and political leadership. His recent work has examined the impacts of terrorism in the UK whilst giving consideration to type of terror attack and the effect of political ideology on migration patterns. Harry is also an associate fellow at the Sheffield Political Economy Research