Experts

Neeltje van Horen is research advisor at the Bank of England, professor of financial economics at the University of Amsterdam and CEPR research fellow. Her research focuses on the links between the financial sector and the real economy. This includes the impact of major economic shocks on companies and households, the effects of central bank policies on the behavior of banks, the link between banks and governments and the role of global banks in corporate lending and shock transmission.

John Van Reenen is Ronald Coase School Professor at the London School of Economics and the Gordon Billard Professor at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (jointly in the MIT Economics Department and Sloan Management School). He has published over a hundred papers on many areas in economics with a particular focus on firm performance and the causes and consequences of innovation.

Enrico is a lecturer at the Department of Economics of the University of Sheffield. His research focuses on issues related to international economics, regional economics, firms’ productivity and the economics of innovation. He collaborates with NIESR and the UK ERC, and prior to joining the University of Sheffield he has worked as a fellow in economic geography at the London School of Economics.

Carlos Vargas-Silva is Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) and Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the interaction of migration with labour markets and public services. He was Principal Investigator and Consortium Leader for the Horizon 2020 REMINDER project, which explored, among other topics, issues related to the impacts of migrant inflows on access to public services, including the National Health Service, and health outcomes.

Andrés Velasco is Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2017-19 he was a member of the G20 Eminent Persons Group. During 2015-16 he co-chaired the Global Panel on the Future of the Multilateral Lending Institutions. In 2013-16 he was a member of the Global Oceans Commission. Mr. Velasco ran for the presidency of Chile in the June 2013 primaries. He also was the Minister of Finance of Chile between March 2006

Tony Venables is a Professor of Economics at Alliance Manchester Business School. He has published extensively in the areas of international and spatial economics, including work on trade and competition, economic integration, multinational firms, economic geography, and regional economics. A fellow of the British Academy and the Econometric Society, he has also worked for the UK government and the World Bank. He is the former research director at The Productivity Institute.