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Tony Blair Institute

Ian Mulheirn

Ian Mulheirn is the Executive Director for UK Policy and Chief Economist at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. He was previously Director of Consulting at Oxford Economics, a global economic consulting company, and Director of the Social Market Foundation, a Westminster public policy think tank specialising in economic research and policy design. Prior to that Ian was an economic advisor at HM Treasury.

University of Oxford

Tim Munday

Tim Munday is a DPhil student at the University of Oxford studying macroeconomics. His research focuses on monetary policy and monetary policy communication. Before joining Oxford, Tim was an economist at Goldman Sachs, where he wrote research on the UK and Euro area economies.

University of Manchester

Luke Munford

Luke Munford is a Senior Lecturer in Health Economics at The University of Manchester and co-director of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration in Greater Manchester (NIHR ARC-GM). He researches the causes and consequences of health, with a strong focus on wider social and economic factors. Luke is particularly interested in inequalities in health and wider social and economic factors and the links between them. He was the co-lead author of multiple reports by the NHSA exploring regional

University of Oxford

Victoria Murphy

Victoria Murphy is Professor of Applied Linguistics and the Deputy Director of the Department of Education, University of Oxford. She is the research group convener of the Applied Linguistics, and the R.E.A.L. (Research in English as an Additional Language) research groups. Victoria’s research focuses on understanding the inter-relationships between child L2/FL learning, vocabulary and literacy development.

University of Texas at Austin

Richard Murphy

Richard Murphy is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin and a research affiliate with the NBER, CESifo, IZA and the Centre for Economic Performance. His main research focus is the economics of education, and particular interests are in; peer effects; access to higher education; higher education finance; teacher unions and teacher labour markets.

Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) and University of Glasgow

Anton Muscatelli

Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli is Distinguished Honorary Professor in the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow, and an Honorary Fellow in the Centre for Public Policy at the University of Glasgow. He currently serves as President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s National Academy. From 2009 to 2025, he was Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, leading the institution through a period of significant growth and global recognition. Prior to this,