Experts

Karl is a Senior Economist at the Resolution Foundation. He specialises on welfare, but also works on broader labour market and economic growth issues. Previously he worked as an economist in the civil service, advising on cross government labour market strategy, economic and fiscal risk management, Universal Credit evaluation and labour market activation policy.

Nick is Professor of Environmental and One Health Economics at the University Of Glasgow. His main research interests are environmental valuation, ecological-economic modelling, economic history and the economics of sustainable development. He has recently been working on a number of One Health projects. Nick is co-author of three textbooks in environmental economics and cost-benefit analysis.

W. Walker Hanlon is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Northwestern University. His research focuses on understanding how economies evolve over the long-run using novel historical data. He is particularly interested in questions related to technological progress, urbanization, demography, international trade, and the environment. Before joining Northwestern, Professor Hanlon spent four years working at NYU’s Stern School of Business, one year as a Kenen Fellow at Princeton

Alan Hanna is a Reader in Finance at Queen’s University Belfast. Having previously worked in financial technology roles, his research interests include the application of algorithms and computational techniques to problems in finance and related fields. Recent projects include applying text analytics to a digitised archive of Financial Times articles and topic analysis of historical patents.

Stephen Hansen is Associate Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School. He has served as an academic consultant to the Bank of England, and has recently held fellowships at the Hoover Institute and Alan Turing Institute.  He is currently a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and CESifo, where he also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board.  Areas of expertise include financial transaction data, machine learning, natural language processing.

Tim Harcourt is Industry Professor and Chief Economist at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), host of The Airport Economist TV series and The Airport Economist TV channel, and author of eight books including The Airport Economist and his latest book Footynomics and the Business of Sport.