Experts

Aftab Chowdhury is a PhD student in the Economics Section at Cardiff University. His research interest is in macroeconomics and economic measurement. Currently, he is working on the measurement issues of inflation during COVID pandemic. Before joining Cardiff University, he completed his MSc in Economics at the University of Glasgow. Moreover, he has been serving as a faculty member in the Department of Banking and Insurance, University of Dhaka (Bangladesh) since 2012.

Paula’s research interests lie in the intersection of public health, policy change, data science, and epidemiology. Currently, she is conducting research on which types and sources of evidence contribute to decisions taken around new vaccine introductions in low- and middle- income countries. She also works closely with organizations at the international and national level as a data scientist and epidemiology consultant to the WHO and UK Health Security Agency.

Dr. Wanyu Chung is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Economics at the University of Birmingham and Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Her areas of expertise are international trade, international economics, and international macroeconomics. She received a PhD from the University of Warwick.

Maxim Chupilkin is a Macroeconomic Associate at the EBRD Office of the Chief Economist. At EBRD, Maxim works in the Global Economics team where he focuses on macroeconomics and political economy for the Regional Economic Prospects and the Transition Report. His research interests include economic consequences of geopolitical shocks and natural disasters.

Matthew Clancy is currently faculty in the department of economics at Iowa State University and formerly a research economist at the US Department of Agriculture, where he specialized in science policy. He has published research on innovation, especially agricultural innovation, and remote work.

Ken is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and an IZA Research Fellow. He is a member of the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity and sits on the School Teachers’ Review Body.  His research mainly uses large data sets and econometric techniques to investigate the labour market outcomes of ethnic minority and immigrant groups in the UK, focusing on self-employment and earnings.  His work has been published in a range of academic and policy outlets.