Experts

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).

Laura Coroneo is an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of York and executive committee member of the Money, Macro and Finance (MMF) Society. Her primary field of research is applied macro-finance, with a particular focus on econometrics and empirical finance. Her research investigates the yield curve of government bonds and its relation with macroeconomic fundamentals. She also works on forecast evaluation, monetary policy and financial econometrics.

Andrea holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and a master’s degree in public administration from the London School of Economics (LSE), specializing in economic policy. She has served as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), evaluating the impacts of COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, and the effects of climate change and natural disasters on several economies in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Andrea has contributed to

Giancarlo Corsetti is Professor of Macroeconomics at Cambridge University, fellow of Clare College. He previously taught at the European University Institute, Yale and Rome III.Corsetti is a leading scholar in international economics and open macroeconomics, with contributions on currency, financial and sovereign crises, European monetary union and fiscal and monetary policy.Corsetti is fellow of CEPR, a consultant of the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.