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London School of Economics and Political Science

Nicholas Stern

Lord Stern is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Head of the India Observatory at the London School of Economics. He was President of the Royal Economic Society (2018-19) and President of the British Academy (2013- 2017). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (June 2014). He has held academic appointments in the UK at Oxford, Warwick, the LSE and abroad at the Massachusetts Institute of

Warwick Business School

Neil Stewart

Neil Stewart studied Natural Sciences and Experimental Psychology at Cambridge before moving to Warwick as a Psychology PhD student in 1997. His work as a Postdoc, Lecturer and Reader in Psychology was in perceptual decision making and categorisation. More recently as a Professor of Psychology he has worked on topics in behavioural and economic science. In 2017 Neil joined WBS as a Professor of Behavioural Science.

NIESR

Lucy Stokes

Lucy Stokes is a Principal Economist at NIESR. Her research interests focus primarily on issues relating to employment and education. Research on employment and labour markets includes a particular emphasis on employees’ experiences at work, including experiences of older workers. Research on education includes consideration of school performance and effectiveness, as well as evaluation of educational interventions.

University of Stirling

Till Stowasser

Till Stowasser is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Economics at the University of Stirling. His research focuses on topics in Applied Microeconomics, especially Behavioral Economics, Organizational Economics, Political Economy, and Health Economics.

IFS

George Stoye

George is an Associate Director at IFS, and leads the Institute’s work on healthcare. He joined the IFS in 2011. His research focuses on understanding variation in the returns from healthcare, exploring how patient outcomes vary across different healthcare providers and across different patient characteristics. Recent work includes an analysis of the spillovers between different types of health and social care, and quantifying the impact of waiting times targets in public hospitals. Ongoing

IFS

Rebekah Stroud

Rebekah Stroud has been a research economist in the industrial organisation and demand team at the Institute for Fiscal Studies since 2017. Most of her research looks at how policy can be used to discourage socially harmful behaviour, with particular application to food and drink consumption and motoring vehicles. She is also one of the researchers involved in the NIHR obesity policy research which draws together researchers from a number of different disciplines with the aim of informing the design