Experts

Erik Berglof has published widely in top journals on economic and political transition, corporate governance, financial development and EU reform. He was a member of the Secretariat for the G20 Eminent Persons Group on global financial governance. Currently, he is a member of the EU High-Level Group of Wise Persons on the European development finance architecture, He is also a Brookings Non-Resident Fellow and Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Tim Besley is School Professor of Economics and Political Science, W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics at LSE.  His main research interests are in development economics, public economics, and political economy, focusing on economic policy formation in developed and emerging market economies. He serves on the National Infrastructure Commission and on the panel of the IFS-led Deaton Review on Inequalities, and is President-elect of the Royal Economic Society.

Applied micro research in health, gender and political economy. Health: dynamic benefits of early interventions (clean water, antibiotics, postnatal care, maternal depression, war), universal health coverage and judicial accountability for the right to health. Gender: gender pay gap, women’s labour force participation, fertility, abortion, maternal mortality, domestic violence, property rights, women’s political participation. Political economy: representation of women and minorities.

Arnab is Professor and Head of Economics at Heriot-Watt University and Research Lead (Regional Modelling and Microsimulation) at NIESR. He started his career as a central banker and moved into academia in 2001. His research focuses on econometrics and statistics, particularly in spatial and network Big Data contexts, with applications in economics and elsewhere. His applied work has generated active policy debate and societal impact in several areas, not least on regional and sectoral disparities,

Debopam obtained his PhD from Princeton, and subsequently taught at Dartmouth College, followed by Oxford, and is now at Cambridge, where he is a fellow of Trinity College. His broad research area is micro-econometrics, and his current interests are empirical modelling of consumer demand, welfare analysis of economic policies, and statistical analysis of university admissions. He is a fellow of the Journal of Econometrics and a winner of the European Research Council’s Consolidator grant.

Alexander Bick is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. He is a macroeconomist with interests in labour economics. His research focuses on cross-country differences in labour supply, how hours worked are related to current and future wages, and on tracking the labour market in real-time during the COVID-19 pandemic and providing additional insights not available from existing labour market surveys.