Experts

Enrico is a lecturer at the Department of Economics of the University of Sheffield. His research focuses on issues related to international economics, regional economics, firms’ productivity and the economics of innovation. He collaborates with NIESR and the UK ERC, and prior to joining the University of Sheffield he has worked as a fellow in economic geography at the London School of Economics.

Carlos Vargas-Silva is Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) and Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the interaction of migration with labour markets and public services. He was Principal Investigator and Consortium Leader for the Horizon 2020 REMINDER project, which explored, among other topics, issues related to the impacts of migrant inflows on access to public services, including the National Health Service, and health outcomes.

Brian D. Varian is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Newcastle University. He was previously a Lecturer at Swansea and has held visiting positions at Melbourne and Cambridge (Corpus Christi). He has a PhD in Economic History from the LSE. He is an Associate Editor of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review. His research, which concerns the trade of Britain and its Dominions from c.1860-1939, has been published in such journals as the Canadian Journal of Economics and Economic History Review.

Andrés Velasco is Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2017-19 he was a member of the G20 Eminent Persons Group. During 2015-16 he co-chaired the Global Panel on the Future of the Multilateral Lending Institutions. In 2013-16 he was a member of the Global Oceans Commission. Mr. Velasco ran for the presidency of Chile in the June 2013 primaries. He also was the Minister of Finance of Chile between March 2006

Tony Venables is a Professor of Economics at Alliance Manchester Business School. He has published extensively in the areas of international and spatial economics, including work on trade and competition, economic integration, multinational firms, economic geography, and regional economics. A fellow of the British Academy and the Econometric Society, he has also worked for the UK government and the World Bank. He is the former research director at The Productivity Institute.

Guglielmo’s main research interests are in the economics of education and training. He is particularly interested in post-16 education choices in England and their effect on education progression and labour market outcomes. In the past he has been involved in projects looking at young people’s access to apprenticeships and their impact on earnings. He is also interested in studying the determinants of firms’ investment in workforce training and apprenticeships.