Experts

Rachel Forshaw is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University. Working with Heriot-Watt’s Centre for Energy Economics Research and Policy, she contributes to BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy and Energy Outlook publications. Rachel’s main research interests lie in applied econometrics and data science with a focus on labour markets and inequality.

Tom Forth is co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) at TheDataCity.com. He is also Head of Data at ODILeeds and founder of imactivate – a data and software consultancy.

Jeffrey Frankel is James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research interests include currencies, crises, commodities, international finance, international trade, monetary and fiscal policy, and global environmental issues. He co-directs the NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics and Harvard’s conference on Politics and Economics of

James Fransham is data correspondent for The Economist Newspaper in London. As well as writing for the newspaper’s Graphic Detail section he is also a regular contributor to the newspaper’s Britain section—he writes a weekly “data dispatch” for its newsletter, Blighty. He has produced original quantitative stories for many of the newspaper’s sections and been shortlisted for several journalistic awards. He joined The Economist as a researcher in 2009 and in 2014 was made the

I have 22 publications in peer-reviewed journals on aspects of finance, economics and health. I have developed collaborative interdisciplinary research and have been successful in nine grant proposals. Current research projects include Work disability and the legacy of the Northern Irish Troubles ; Cost effectiveness of stratified medicine approaches to colorectal cancer and Time discounting as a mediator of the relationship between financial stress and health.

Eric French is the Montague Burton Professor of Industrial Relations and Labour Economics at the University of Cambridge, Co-director, ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy, Institute for Fiscal Studies, and is a Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Centre for Economic Policy Research. French’s research interests include: household behavior over the lifecycle; the impact of government and private pensions on savings and labor supply; the impact of health