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Bank of England

Philip Bunn

Philip Bunn is a Senior Technical Advisor at the Bank of England where he has worked since 2001. He currently works in the Structural Economics Division in the Monetary Analysis area of the Bank on a mix of policy and research work. He is the Programme Director of the Decision Maker Panel survey.  He holds a BSc and MSc in economics from the University of Warwick.

University of Bristol

Simon Burgess

Simon Burgess is a Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol. Simon is a labour economist. He completed his PhD in Oxford in 1987 with Steve Nickell. His current research interests are in the economics of education, including teacher effectiveness, pupil effort, school admissions, and market-based education reforms (such as school performance tables, school accountability, choice and competition). He also works on ethnic segregation in schools, and the educational performance of minority

Harvard University

Samantha Burn

She is a PhD candidate in Health Policy at Harvard and research affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Her research is in health economics and public finance. Her primary research focuses on productivity and allocation of resources within public health care systems

University of Strathclyde

Richard Butler

Dr. Richard Butler is Emeritus Professor of Tourism and has acted as consultant for numerous public and private sector agencies and held visiting professorships in Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Italy Hong Kong and the Netherlands. He has published 28 books and over 200 papers and chapters in books. His main research areas are destination development, sustainability, overtourism, indigenous tourism, and tourism in peripheral areas. In 2016 he was awarded the UNWTO Ulysses medal for ‘excellence

Tulane University

Patrick Button

Patrick Button is an Assistant Professor in Economics at Tulane University and Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER. He primarily researches the economics of ageing, disability, and discrimination. His two projects on COVID-19 are: (1) how the pandemic and resulting recession is affecting workers near retirement age, and (2) how access to mental health care, and discrimination in access to mental health care, is affected by COVID-19.

New York University

Luis Cabral

His primary research area is the study of firm dynamics (innovation, platforms, reputation) with a focus on media and entertainment industries. He has written numerous papers and books, including Introduction to Industrial Organizations (MIT Press).