Experts

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

Willem Buiter is an independent economic consultant. He was Global Chief Economist at Citigroup from 2010 till 2018. Previously he was Chief Economist and Special Counselor to the President of the EBRD and a founding member of the MPC of the Bank of England. He was a Professor of Economics at the LSE, Cambridge University and Yale university. He is the author of 78 refereed articles in professional economics journals and seven books.

Alexander Haas is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Oxford. He is also affiliated with the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). Over the course of his PhD, Alex has spent several months visiting the Bank of England and the European Central Bank. His research interests are in macroeconomics, monetary policy, and financial intermediation.

Jiawei Steven Hai is Assistant Professor at the Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Hub at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China and Affiliate Fellow at the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence at King’s College London.