Experts

Kalina Manova is a Harvard AB/AM/PhD and was previously professor at Stanford, Princeton and Oxford. She is CEPR Research Fellow, Bank of England Consultant and EEA Executive Committee Member. She has received a Leverhulme Prize in Economics and a €1.5M European Research Council grant. Her research examines financial frictions in international trade and investment; firm productivity and management; and global value chains. She has expertise on Europe, China and the US.

Charles F. Manski is Board of Trustees Professor in Economics at Northwestern University. His research spans econometrics, judgment and decision, medical economics, and analysis of public policy. He is author of Patient Care under Uncertainty (Princeton, 2019) and Public Policy in an Uncertain World (Harvard 2013). He is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

Andrea Mantovani received both his M.A and his PhD in Quantitative Economics from CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain. His main research focuses are on industrial economics, competition policy and regulation, game theory, network economics, economics of innovation, environmental economics, and international trade. He published in Management Science, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Strategy Science, Resource and Energy Economics, among

Marcus Manuel currently researches development finance issues, based at Overseas Development Institute (ODI). He has worked in international development for thirty years. He was a director in the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID), overseeing offices in a range of countries in Africa and Asia. He also was a deputy director at HM Treasury, where he led on international development issues.

Chiara Manzoni is a Senior Social Researcher at NIESR. Her research interests situate across the study of migration and integration. She is particularly interested on issues affecting vulnerable groups and their education and labour market prospects. Her research includes an analysis of schools’ practices of integration of newly arrived migrants, and of religious and ethnic groups. Recent work in this area has involved exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the integration of migrant children.

Larissa Marioni is a Principal Economist at NIESR. She specialises in applied microeconomics and her research interests lie primarily in labour economics, productivity and public policy. Her current work investigates skills mismatches, regional inequalities, and AI in relation to productivity. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Southampton.