Experts

Graeme is Dean of External Engagement in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Graeme’s interests are primarily in devolution, regional policy and the Scottish economy. Between 2016 and 2021, Graeme was Director of the Fraser of Allander Institute, a research institute focussed on the Scottish economy. Prior to that, Graeme spent many years as a Senior Economic Adviser in government and is a former head of the First Minister of Scotland’s Policy Unit. Graeme is currently

Sanchari Roy is Associate Professor of Development Economics at King’s College London, and Associate Faculty at King’s India Institute. Her research primarily focuses on gender and development, education, mental health and public service delivery. Sanchari completed her PhD in Economics from LSE

Melissa Rubio is a postdoctoral researcher in Economics at the University of Cologne and member of the ECONtribute. She obtained her PhD in Economics from University of Gothenburg. Her research interests are in economic history, development economics and labour economics.

Valeria Rueda is an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Nottingham. She received a PhD in Economics from Sciences Po, Paris in 2016. After that, she was a Career Development Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford, where she was associated with the Economic and Social History Research Group. Her research investigates historical determinants of spatial inequalities of economic outcomes, health, and political participation. She has devoted significant attention to the role

I am an Associate Professor and Fellow in Economics at Harris Manchester College and the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. I am also an Associate Editor for the Oxford Review of Economic Policy (OxREP).I work on areas of labour, development and political economy. My most recent work focuses on the economics of migration – with an emphasis on forced migration. I am co-convener of the Economics of Forced Migration project, Econforced, a research initiative which

Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela (Phd Economics, European University Institute, 2014) is a Research Economist at the Centre for Economic Performance (London School of Economics) and Research Coordinator of the Centre for Vocational Education Research. Her research spans a variety of topics in the Economics of Education including: the impacts of parental job loss on child outcomes, the consequences of failing high-stake exams, the value-added of post-16 institutions and gender gaps in education.