Experts

Emma Congreve is an economist at the Fraser of Allander Institute (FAI), leading the Institute’s work on poverty, inequality and inclusive growth. The FAI is long established as Scotland’s leading independent economic research institute with particular expertise in devolved policy. Emma’s particular area of expertise is economic policy relating to poverty and low income. Emma is an experienced economist and has previously held roles at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and within the Scottish

Gavan Conlon is an expert in education and labour market economics. He has 20 years of experience working with UK central government departments, non-departmental public bodies, university mission groups, universities, unions and representative bodies, charities, think-tanks, regulators and private sector organisations. He is an active researcher in the area of higher education fees and funding and has written about the impact of Covid-19 on university finances.

Gabriella Conti is Associate Professor in Economics at University College London and Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and IZA. She is an expert in the lifelong impacts of early shocks, investments and policies, and in the role of child development in the production of lifecycle health. Gabriella has been recently awarded he Philip Leverhulme Prize in Economics, the Nick Hales Award and the ERC Consolidator Award.

Richard Cookson is a professor at the Centre for Health Economics, University of York. He has helped pioneer “equity-informative” methods of policy analysis, including distributional cost-effectiveness analysis; health equity indicators for healthcare quality assurance; and methods for investigating public concern for reducing health inequality. He has co-chaired international working groups on equity, worked in the UK Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit and served on various NHS advisory

Francesca Cornaglia is an Associate Professor at Queen Mary University of London. She is an IZA Research Fellow and previously held a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at UCL. Her main research interest is in health economics. Her early work was on smoking behaviour. She has also contributed to the literature on wellbeing and mental health. More recently her research focus has been on socioeconomic inequalities in health.

Ed Cornforth is an Associate Economist at NIESR. His research interests include macroeconomic modelling, fiscal policy, inequality, money creation, and the impacts of climate change on economic growth. He currently works on the use and development of the National Institute’s global econometric model (NiGEM).