Experts

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

Dr Jonathan Cribb is a Senior Research Economist at IFS. He has two broad research interests. The first is understanding economic activity in later life, including the timing of retirement, savings for retirement and the standard of living in old age. The second is understanding the determinants of economic inequalities, particularly that those that occur in the labour market, how they differ between the public and private sector, and how they are affected by the tax and benefit system.

Thomas Crossley is a Professor of Economics at European University Institute in Florence, as well as an Associate Director of Understanding Society. He is also a Research Fellow of the IFS, an ONS Fellow, an ESCOE Research Associate and an elected member of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth. His research interests include household behaviour, financial security, and living standards; the design, collection and analysis of survey data; and economic measurement more broadly.

Meredith A. Crowley is a Reader in International Economics and Fellow of St. John’s College at the University of Cambridge. She is a Senior Fellow of the think tank UK in a Changing Europe (UKCE), a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR – London), and a member of two advisory panels at the UK Department for International Trade. Her research focuses on international trade, multinational trade agreements, and trade policy. Dr. Crowley received her MPP from Harvard