Experts

Eleanor Russell is an economic and cultural historian of late medieval and early modern Europe (1350-1600) studying how large companies responded to dramatic changes including globalisation, war, and pandemics. She has held research positions at Yale and the Medici Archive Project. She was recently awarded a Stanton Foundation prize for applied history and is currently researching how historic pandemics impacted businesses.

Jill Rutter is the director of strategy at British Future and an internationally renowned expert on migration and integration, with over 120 books, reports and papers to her name. She has previously worked in the migration team at the Institute for Public Policy Research, as a university lecturer, a school teacher and at the Refugee Council.

Meera Sabaratnam is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at SOAS University of London. Her research focuses on the colonial and postcolonial dimensions of world politics, both in theory and practice. She has published work on race, decolonisation, international aid and peacebuilding. Recently she has been active in efforts to decolonise education and re-think the legacies of empire.

Raffaella Sadun is Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and is a Co-Chair of Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and co-PI of the Digital Reskilling Lab. Her research focuses on managerial and organizational drivers of productivity and growth in corporations and the public sector. Raffaella is co-editor for the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization and associate editor for Management Science and she is the author of

Claudia Sahm is the Director of Macroeconomic Research at JFI. She is also the founder of Stay-at-Home Macro (SAHM) Consulting and a regular opinion writer at Bloomberg. She has policy and research expertise on consumer spending, fiscal stimulus, and the financial well-being of households. She is the author of the “Sahm Rule,” a reliable early signal of recessions that she developed as a way to automatically trigger stimulus payments to individuals in a recession. Previously, she was a section

Farah Said is an Assistant Professor at the Lahore School of Economics and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Economics and Business. She studies dynamics of poverty and gender in LMICs. Her current research investigates the effectiveness of community engagement in improving learning outcome; the role of aspirations and microfinance in supporting female labor force participation; and the role of behavioral biases in the demand for credit and saving among microfinance borrowers.