Experts

Professor Marc Cowling has a PhD in Business Economics from Warwick Business School and an MSc Economics from London University. He is currently ranked in the top 5% of economists in the world by citations (H-index) according to Research Publications in Economics (REPEC, February 2024) and in the top 2% of research scientists by Stanford University. He has been an active researcher for 35 years and focuses on small business survival and growth and how public policy can support these objectives.

Diane Coyle is Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. She specialises in the economics of new technologies, markets and competition, and measurement of the digital economy. As co-director of the Bennett Institute at the University of Cambridge, she leads research programmes on comprehensive wealth and economic well-being. Diane is a Fellow of the Office for National Statistics and has held a number of public service roles. She was awarded the CBE for her contribution to

Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of Warwick and Professor of Economic History, University of Sussex. My earlier career included positions at London School of Economics, Oxford University and visiting appointments at UC Berkeley and Stanford University. At various times, consultant for HM Treasury, IMF and World Bank. CBE (2014); Fellow of British Academy (1992). I am a specialist in 20th-century British economic history.

Claire is a Reader in Economics at the University of Birmingham and a Research Fellow of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She is an applied labour economist whose research focuses on the determinants of education and labour market participation and outcomes, with a focus on the early years and higher education. She has published widely on the drivers of gender, socio-economic and ethnic inequalities in these areas, and what can be done to reduce these gaps.

Professor Gregory S. Crawford is a Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich and Director of the CEPR Competition Policy RPN.  He holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford University (1998) and in 2007-2008 was the Chief Economist at the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), the United States media and communications regulator.  Professor Crawford is an empirical economist specializing in the fields of industrial organization, antitrust/competition policy, and media economics.

Jacques Crémer is Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the European Economic Association. He has done fundamental work on planning theory, auctions, incentive theory, organization economics, and the digital economy. In 2018-2019, as a Special Adviser to European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, he  co-authored the report “Competition Policy for the Digital Era”. He is an active participant in the debates about the regulation of Big