Experts

Natalie Rickard is an Economics PhD student at London Business School. Her research interests are in macroeconomics and monetary policy and her work looks at how inequality and household heterogeneity matter for macroeconomic outcomes. Prior to joining LBS she completed a MSc in Economics at UCL and worked as a strategist at BNP Paribas.

Rebecca is Director of the UK Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE), an independent research centre established in 2017 to address emerging and future issues in measuring the economy. She is Professor of Practice in Economics at King’s Business School, King’s College London. She has written extensively on UK productivity performance and labour market policy.

Areas of expertise : the wine sector and champagne industry through different approaches – Institutional economics (PhD thesis) – Industrial economics (industry composition, value creation and distribution) – Actors’ strategies (vertical integration of Champagne winemakers) – Operational marketing (champagne packaging).

Dr Elaine L Ritch is a Reader in Fashion, Marketing and Sustainability at Glasgow Caledonian University. She has contributed to sustainable fashion and marketing research over the last decade and edited four textbooks on those topics. Her approach to research and teaching is very much driven by the ‘Common Weal’ (Scots for Common Good) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Her expertise includes knowledge fashion production, consumption and marketing and sustainable solutions.

Dheeya Rizmie is a researcher at Mathematic. She holds a PhD from Imperial College London. work focuses on climate change impacts and policies, particularly those affecting population health and vulnerable communities. Her PhD looked at the heterogeneous impacts of extreme temperatures on emergency healthcare across vulnerable populations and the role of air pollution on determinants of health, specifically individuals’ sleep quantity and quality.

As a quantitative human geographer, Caitlin’s research investigates the causes and consequences of different types of spatial inequality, with a particular interest in energy poverty and energy justice. She uses spatial datasets and methods to map inequality across multiple scales.