Experts

Tim Harcourt is Industry Professor and Chief Economist at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), host of The Airport Economist TV series and The Airport Economist TV channel, and author of eight books including The Airport Economist and his latest book Footynomics and the Business of Sport.

Susan Harkness is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Centre for Poverty and Social Justice at the University of Bristol. She is co-Investigator of the ESRC research centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC), where she leads the research programme on ‘Changing family life-courses and inequalities.’ Her research focusses on how gender and family structure relate to inequality and poverty. She has particular interests in maternal employment and single parents’ socio-economic circumstances.

Richard’s main research is on firm-level productivity, including its determinants (e.g., trade, investment, and innovation). As well as publishing widely in journals on the topic, he has undertaken extensive policy work for bodies like UKTI, UK regional governments, and the North East and Tees Valley LEPs. He is also a research associate of the New Zealand Productivity Commission.

Mark Harrison is a research associate of Warwick’s ESRC Centre on Competitive Advantage in the Global. He works on the economics and politics of the two world wars, and of Russia under communism. His recent books include The Soviet Economy and the Approach of War, 1937-1939 (2018), and One Day We Will Live Without Fear: Everyday Lives Under the Soviet Police State (2016).

Mark Hart is Professor of Small Business and Entrepreneurship at Aston Business School, Associate Director of the Aston Centre for Growth, and is one of the Programme Directors and Academic Lead of the national Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses programme. A 2014 recipient of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion, he has played a national role in promoting enterprise skills and supporting entrepreneurs as well as advising government on small business and entrepreneurship matters.

Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven is a Lecturer in International Development at the University of York, UK. Her research fields include development finance, heterodox economics, structural features of underdevelopment, and critically assessing the economics field. She is the founder and editor of the blog Developing Economics, co-founder of Diversifying and Decolonisning Economics (D-Econ) and coordinator of the Association for Heterodox Economics. She has a PhD in Economics from The New School.