Experts

Max Nathan is Professor of Economic Geography at CASA, University College London, an associate in the CEP Urban Programme and a Research Fellow at IZA. He is an economic geographer with a background in public policy. His work looks at urban economic development, especially innovation systems and clusters; immigration and diversity; and public policy for cities. He is a co-founder of the Centre for Cities and the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth.

James Nazroo is Deputy Director (and previously founding Director) of the Centre of Dynamics of Ethnicity and co-Director (and previously founding Director) of the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing. His research focuses on social and health inequalities in later life, and on ethnic/racial inequalities in health examining how this relates to different dimensions of inequality that are shaped by processes of racism.

Kyriakos Neanidis is Reader in Macroeconomics at the University of Manchester and research affiliate at the Growth and Business Cycle Research Group. His research activity has covered a wide range of theoretical and empirical topics in development macroeconomics, with focus on issues that relate to economic growth, foreign aid, and public finance. He has also contributed to the economics of crime, while recently monetary and macroprudential policymaking have become major interests.

Christopher Neilson is an assistant professor of economics at Princeton University. He studies education markets and information frictions using a combination of empirical methods drawn from Labor Economics and Empirical Industrial Organization.

Brent Neiman is the Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He conducts research on international macro, finance, and trade and is a co-founder of the Global Capital Allocation Project. He serves as the Director of the Initiative on International Economics at the Becker Friedman Institute, an Executive Board member of the Initiative for Global Markets at Chicago Booth, a Research Associate at the NBER, and a Research Fellow at the CEPR.

Biwesh is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Birmingham. Biwesh holds a PhD from the University of Strathclyde. His main research interests include international investments, emerging markets finance, corporate governance, fintech, sustainable finance, climate finance, trading behaviour, corporate bond markets and initial public offerings. He has published in leading international journals such as British Journal of Management and Journal of Corporate Finance.