Experts

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

Dénes is a researcher and thinker interested in exploring the language of data: visualization. He holds an Assistant Professorship at Lancaster University in the UK, where has a research portfolio in modelling complex energy systems and a Visiting Assistant Professorship at Babes-Bolyai University in Romania, centred around data visualization and business intelligence. He is the data visualization lead for the Economics Observatory.

Pilar Cuevas-Ruiz is a PhD Candidate at the Social Research Institute at the Institute of Education at the University College London (UCL-IoE). Her research interests are on gender economics, child development and human capital.

Andrew Cumbers is Professor of Political Economy in the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Reclaiming Public Ownership: Making Space for Economic Democracy (Zed) which received the Myrdal Prize from the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. He  currently holds a European Research Council Advanced Grant and is a Managing Editor of the journal Urban Studies.