Experts

Dr. Santamaria holds a PhD in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She joined the University of Warwick as an Assistant Professor in 2019. She received the Young Economist Award by the European Economic Association (2019). Her main fields of expertise are International Trade, Spatial Economics and Urban Economics. Recently she has been working on the economics of Transport Infrastructure, the persistence of Border frictions in Europe and the allocation of Public Procurement in Spain

Jonathan Sapsed is Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Newcastle University Business School and a Co-Investigator of the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (Creative PEC). He is an Expert Advisor to the UK government on innovation policy and creative industries. He has recently completed a review for DCMS on the effects of AI on productivity in the creative industries. Jonathan is Co-Editor of the Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries as well as being a published cartoonist.

Stéphane Saussier is a Professor of Economics and Public Management at the Sorbonne Business School – University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne – where he is running a research group working on the Economics of Public Private Partnerships. He is also a Professor of Economics at the Blavatnik School of Government – Oxford. Stéphane is regularly involved in reports for international institutions such as OECD, UN and European Parliament.

Anthony Savagar is a senior lecturer in economics at the University of Kent. His research focuses on macroeconomics, industrial organization and productivity.

Liz Sayce is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics. She was Chief Executive of Disability Rights UK (and its legacy charity Radar) from 2007-2017, where she led work for equal participation for all, through programmes on independent living, career opportunities and shifts in cultural attitudes and behaviour. Liz is Chair of the Commission for Equality in Mental Health, hosted by the Centre for Mental Health, and a member of the Social Security Advisory Committee.

Melisa Sayli is a Postgraduate Research Fellow at the University of Surrey where she works on the The Health Foundation funded project ‘Retention of the clinical and ambulance workforce in English Hospitals’, the goal of which is to understand how staff retention can be improved to ease workforce pressures in the NHS. Melisa’s expertise lies in labour economics, health economics and applied econometrics. Melisa studied household labour supply during her PhD at the University of Manchester and