Experts

Benno is a co-founder and director of Salient Behavioural Consultants where he combines robust behavioural science frameworks with years of industry expertise. He is also a PhD Student at the LSE where he focuses on risk-taking in high stakes contexts. Special interests include time and domain specific risk-tolerance fluctuations as well as real-world applications in the context of background risk and in high-stake industries such as professional trading and aviation.

Danielle Guizzo is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Bristol (UK). Her research expertise is on History of Economics, Political Economy and Economics Education. She currently works on topics related to the history of economic expertise, the sociology of the economics discipline, and educational policy and economics education, focusing on diversity and decolonisation. She is also a co-founder and steering group member of D-Econ, and an affiliate researcher at Autonomy.

Sergei Guriev joined Sciences Po as a tenured professor of economics in 2013 after serving as the Rector of the New Economic School in Moscow in 2004-13. In 2016-19, he was on leave from Sciences Po serving as the Chief Economist and the Member of the Executive Committee of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). In 2022, Sergei Guriev was appointed Sciences Po’s Provost.

Benedict is an Economics PhD student at Chicago Booth. His research focuses on household finances – typically using a combination of big data and behavioural economics to understand consumer behaviour. Before moving to Chicago he previously spent 6+ years conducting economic research to inform financial regulation at the Financial Conduct Authority, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Bank of England. He is a graduate of University of Warwick and University College London.

Martín Guzmán is the Minister of Economy of Argentina. He is a researcher at the Columbia University School of Business, and Director of the Public Debt Restructuring Program of the Policy Dialogue Initiative of the same School. He is an associate professor at Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires). As of December 2019, he is a tenured lecturer at Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de La

Christoph Görtz is an Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham. Prior to this, he worked at the University of Nottingham and the Bank of England. His research interests are in the area of macroeconomics, financial economics and monetary policy, with particular focus on business cycles, expectations, news shocks, firm-dynamics, the interaction between real and financial sectors in the economy, learning and uncertainty.