Experts

Professor Emily Shuckburgh OBE is a world-leading climate scientist, and Director of Cambridge Zero, the University of Cambridge’s climate change initiative. She is also Professor of Environmental Data Science and Academic Director of the Institute of Computing for Climate Science. She leads the UK national research funding body’s (UKRI) Centre for Doctoral Training on the Application of AI to the study of Environmental Risks (AI4ER) and is a director of the Centre for Landscape Regeneration

Dr Luke Sibieta is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Education Policy Institute. He currently leads IFS’s ongoing work on education spending and resources. His research covers education spending, the teacher labour market and educational inequalities

Luigi Siciliani has specialised in the economics of hospitals and has published over 85 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include waiting times for non-emergency treatment, hospital quality competition, contracting theory applied to health care, pay for performance and coordination between health and social care. He is an Editor of the Journal of Health Economics, and member of the European Commission Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health.

Zahra grew up in Pakistan and completed her PhD from Northwestern University in the US. She has been at the School of Economics at the University of Bristol since 2018. Zahra works in the fields of micro-econometrics, labour economics and development. She has investigated questions related to gender and the labour market as well as identification of treatment effects using data generated from social experiments in her research.

Abu is a postdoctoral researcher in economics at the Technical University of Munich. His main research interest lies in the field of development economics, particularly in the economic consequences of ethnic discrimination, mental health, endogenous formation of preferences, and the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic in developing countries. Abu holds a PhD in economics from the University of Southampton, an MSc in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Southampton, and a BSc

Hans is a senior lecturer in economics at the University of Bristol and an affiliated researcher at VIVE – The Danish Center for Social Science Research. He is an applied micro-economist working on topics in education, health, gender and inequality in general