Experts

Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Public Policy Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and a Director of the International Growth Centre, and the ESRC research network, Social Macroeconomics. His research covers the transformation from poverty to prosperity; state fragility; the implications of group psychology for development; migration and refugees; urbanization in poor countries and the crisis in modern capitalism, which is the subject of his most recent book, The Future

Jonathan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia’s Department of Economics and Director of the Environmental Inequality Lab. He combines data with insights from economic theory and environmental science to understand how economic activity and the natural environment influence one another.

Chris Colvin is Reader in Economic History at Queen’s University Belfast, where he is a director of the Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH). He has written extensively on the interwar economy and specialises in the causes, anatomy and consequences of historical financial crises. He is also interested in measuring the long-run consequences of health crises and has worked on quantifying the demographic impact of the Great Irish Famine and the 1918 influenza pandemic.

I have a broad spectrum of interests across applied economics, but especially in environmental and energy economics, trade, inequality and macroeconomics. Amongst other projects, I have worked on the link between state size and productivity using trade models, the problem of optimal climate change policy using models with credit frictions, and I have studied inequality using microsimulation models. The common theme to my work is studying and trying to inform long term policy issues.

David Comerford is a Professor at the University of Stirling. He researches and teaches in the economics division and the Behavioural Science Centre.

Paola Conconi is a Professor of Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, a member of the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) and Research Associate of the Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS). She is a Research Fellow of the CEPR International Trade and Regional Economics Program, a CESifo Research Fellow, a Research Associate of the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics, and the Director of the CEPR Research Network on Global