Dr Simon Russell is a Senior Research Fellow and Unit Manager of the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Obesity. Simon’s role within the unit is to coordinate the activities of the research programme and develop, implement, and monitor systems for the operational management of the programme. Simon also manages and conducts research that meets the programme’s aims and objectives, contributes to the national health research strategy, and provides evidence to inform the thinking of policy makers.
UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Simon Russell
University of Cambridge
Eleanor Russell
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.
British Future
Jill Rutter
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.
SOAS University of London
Meera Sabaratnam
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.
Harvard Business School
Raffaella Sadun
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
Jain Family Institute
Claudia Sahm
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
