Experts

Peter A. Victor is a Professor Emeritus at York University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from UBC and has worked for 50 years in Canada and abroad on economy and environment issues as an academic, consultant and public servant. His work on ecological economics, notably on environmentally extended input output analysis, ecological macroeconomics, and alternatives to economic growth, is widely cited. He has received several prizes and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Anna Vignoles is a Professor of Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a trustee of the Nuffield Foundation. Anna undertakes research into how we can improve students’ academic achievement and help them develop the skills they need in the labour market. She has a particular interest in researching the inequalities we see in access to education (globally) and, in the UK context, the lower levels of educational success of children

Carmen is a PhD student in Economics at the University of Warwick and a PhD scholar at the Institute of Fiscal Studies. A public and labour economist, she specialises in the effects of different public policies on youth development and crime.

Michael Vlassopoulos is professor of Economics at the University of Southampton and a research fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Germany. Michael is an applied microeconomist with interests that span a number of areas including labour, education, health, and development economics. Recent research focuses on topics such as racial and ethnic discrimination, mental health, social and educational integration of refugees, network and spillover effects in education.

Stephanie’s research builds on the biomedical as well as social science literature. She investigates the importance of genetics, early life environments, parental investments, and government policy in explaining individuals’ health and behaviour over the life course. She currently holds an ERC Starting Grant (2020-2025) that aims to incorporate genetic data into social science research and study the importance of the nature-nurture interplay in the developmental origins of health and

Maarten Voors is an Associate Professor at the Development Economics Group at Wageningen University. He received his PhD from Wageningen University in 2011 (with honours) and was an Isaac Newton Trust Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge 2011-2013. His main field is development economics, and his research focuses on institutions, (post-conflict) development and behaviour.