Experts

Ranil Dissanayake is a policy fellow at CGD. An economist with more than 15 years’ experience in international development policy making, he has been a senior economic adviser to the Governments of Malawi and Tanzania, and to successive Chief Economists in the UK’s Department for International Development. His work focuses on the future of development cooperation, economic development in poor countries, and bridging the gap between research and policymaking.

A macroeconomist who has specialised in monetary theory and the use of price-data to measure price rigidity, inflation and the effectiveness of monetary policy. He has done extensive research on the CPI price-quote data in the UK and France and has also used this for the macroeconomic modelling of inflation. He has also studied the impact of fiscal policy in the British economy.

Battal Dogan is a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol, where he has taught since September 2018. His research combines ideas from market design, mechanism design, choice theory, and game theory.

Subjective wellbeing, preference elicitation, economic appraisal, social preferences, equity, behavioural science.

Specialist in: Education Economics, Labour Economics, Health Economics, and Applied Econometrics. Advised OECD, World Bank, HMT and many government departments. Sat on Pay Review Bodies for teachers, doctors and the Armed Forces. Research interests in many applied economic policy questions. Currently Professor of Economics, University of Sussex and Research Director,  NIESR.

Magdalena Domínguez is a research economist at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Magdalena is part of the community wellbeing programme and the policing and crime group.