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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.

José Antonio Miranda is a Professor of Economic History at the University of Alicante (Spain). He has been a visiting researcher at the University of York (UK), the University of Padua and the University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’ (Italy). He specialises in Business History and in the industrial development of Southern European countries. His main current research interests focus on the evolution of fashion industries, industrial resilience and industrial districts. He has published extensively on

Mark is PhD candidate in the University of Edinburgh’s School of Economics, where his research is centred on understanding the causes and effects of labour market inequalities. His current research focusses on understanding the origins of inequalities in human capital, and how early circumstances influence social and economic outcomes across life. Mark is also a Research Assistant at the Fraser of Allander Institute, where he works on a range of topics related to economic policy in Scotland,

Ian Mitchell is an economist and Senior Policy Fellow at the Center for Global Development where he leads work assessing the effectiveness of major economies’ development and climate finance policies. He is also an associate fellow with Chatham House’s Environment and Society programme. Until 2016 he was a senior civil servant and economist in the UK Government, most recently as deputy Chief Economist at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs where he led Strategy and

Dr Mitman is an Associate Professor at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University and Managing Editor of the Review of Economic Studies. His research interests are in macroeconomics broadly defined. His areas of expertise include monetary and fiscal policy, with a particular focus on unemployment insurance, consumer credit, labour and housing markets.