Experts

Nattavudh (Nick) Powdthavee is a Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School. Nick specialises in well-being (or happiness) economics and behavioural economics, with special interests in the study of casual determinants of well-being, luck and success, and the effectiveness of different nudge policies on well-being and behaviours. He is the author of the popular science book called The Happiness Equation: The Surprising Economics of our Most Valuable Asset and a co-author of The

Sweta Pramanick (MSc, Antwerp) is a PhD student in financial history at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research focuses on understanding how productivity and the integration of new innovative technologies have shaped the UK economy during the twentieth century.

Ian Preston is a Professor in the Department of Economics at University College London. His main research interests are in applied microeconomics, particularly consumer demand, consumption and savings, income distribution, taxation, public spending, migration and the economics of sport.

Jack is a Research Officer at the Wales Centre for Public Policy, where he has worked on equalities, the economy and decarbonisation. He has recently published reports on race equality in housing, the idea of a ‘just transition’, and the implications of Brexit for Wales. Jack has a PhD in Philosophy from Cardiff University, which focused on the work of Theodor W. Adorno.

Carol is Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School, London. Her research seeks to increase understanding of the factors that affect the production of public services and outcomes for users of these services, with a particular focus on healthcare. Her publications include papers on the effect of market incentives on the quality and productivity of healthcare, the impact of environmental factors on health, the effect of competition on public service production, equity in health and

Eugenio Proto is Research Fellow at CEPR, IZA, CESifo. His research interests range from behavioural economics to development, applying notions of Psychology and recently textual analysis in Economics. He published in the general economic journals Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics and Economic Journal; in several top field economic journals and in some important general scientific journals. He is currently academic editor of Plos One and associate editor of the Journal