Experts

Andrew Henley is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Economics at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. He has published extensively on labour economics, regional economics and on small business and entrepreneurship, He is a member of the project teams for both the ESRC Productivity Insights Network and the ESRC Productivity Institute, as well as co-investigator on a current ESRC project on the impact of COVID on self-employment. He has a long and extensive record of policy and business

Amanda is a PhD student interested in the links between emotion, cognition and behaviour. She studied psychology to Masters level at the University of St Andrews and has a wealth of practical experience working within health technology and mental health care settings. More specifically, her research focuses on how changes in emotion can be used to facilitate changes cognition and behaviour in order to tackle important social issues and promote wellbeing.

Cameron Hepburn is Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Oxford, and Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He also serves as the Director of the Economics of Sustainability Programme, based at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. Cameron has published widely on energy, resources and environmental challenges across disciplines. He has co-founded three successful businesses and provides advice on energy and environmental

Professor James Higham’s research addresses the broad theme of ‘Tourism and global environmental change’. His research explores aspects of sustainable tourism in relation to anthropogenic climate change, ecosystems and biodiversity. His research on tourism and climate change centres on decarbonisation with a particular focus on international transportation, and the challenges and opportunities of transitioning to low-carbon tourism.

Christian Hilber is an urban and real estate economist interested in policy evaluation. His research focuses on issues relating to housing supply, land use regulation, homeownership, real estate price dynamics, public finance, and inequality. He has published and advised extensively on these issues and has provided evidence to Select Committees of the Treasury and the House of Lords, the PM’s Implementation Unit and the National Audit Office.

Amanda Hill-Dixon is a Senior Research Fellow and Programme Director at the Wales Centre for Public Policy. Amanda leads WCPP’s inequalities priority area, their work with public services more broadly, and WCPP’s work on socio-economic inequalities as part of the International Public Policy Observatory. Her role involves developing and leading research and knowledge mobilisation to generate useful and impactful evidence for Welsh policy-makers and public service leaders.