Experts

Jonathan Haskel is an external committee member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of the England. He has a number of publications in academic Economics journals on productivity, growth and the intangible/knowledge economy, and his recent book is Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy. He was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in June 2018 for services to economics.

Chris Hatton is Professor of Social Care in the Department of Social Care and Social Work at Manchester Metropolitan University, having previously worked at Lancaster University and the University of Manchester. His research is mainly with people with learning/intellectual disabilities, trying to document and understand the social and health inequalities that people experience, evaluating how people are supported, and working with others to use this knowledge to tackle these inequalities.

Tim Hatton has published extensively on the economic history of labour markets, including unemployment, poverty, health and migration. His research interests also include the causes and effects of international migration, and policy on immigration and asylum. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK) and of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He is also a Research Fellow of the CEPR (London) and the IZA (Bonn).

Johannes Haushofer is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Founder and Scientific Director of the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, a research non-profit in Nairobi, Kenya. His research interests lie at the intersection of psychology, behavioral economics, and development economics. His research asks whether poverty has particular psychological consequences, and whether these consequences, in turn, affect economic behavior.

David Heald is Emeritus Professor at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. His research focuses on: fiscal transparency; public sector accounting reform; public expenditure management and control; public audit; and financing devolved governments. David is a member of the UK Treasury’s User and Preparer Advisory Group on government financial reporting and a member of the Scottish Government’s Advisory Group on Tax Strategy. In 2023 he chaired a working group of the Royal Society

John F. Helliwell is Professor Emeritus in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia, and Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He has been an editor of all ten editions of the World Happiness Report. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Officer of the Order of Canada.