Experts

Professor James Higham’s research addresses the broad theme of ‘Tourism and global environmental change’. His research explores aspects of sustainable tourism in relation to anthropogenic climate change, ecosystems and biodiversity. His research on tourism and climate change centres on decarbonisation with a particular focus on international transportation, and the challenges and opportunities of transitioning to low-carbon tourism.

Christian Hilber is an urban and real estate economist interested in policy evaluation. His research focuses on issues relating to housing supply, land use regulation, homeownership, real estate price dynamics, public finance, and inequality. He has published and advised extensively on these issues and has provided evidence to Select Committees of the Treasury and the House of Lords, the PM’s Implementation Unit and the National Audit Office.

Amanda Hill-Dixon is a Senior Research Fellow and Programme Director at the Wales Centre for Public Policy. Amanda leads WCPP’s inequalities priority area, their work with public services more broadly, and WCPP’s work on socio-economic inequalities as part of the International Public Policy Observatory. Her role involves developing and leading research and knowledge mobilisation to generate useful and impactful evidence for Welsh policy-makers and public service leaders. 

Nick Hillman has been the Director of HEPI since 2014. He worked for the Rt Hon David Willetts MP (now Lord Willetts), the Minister for Universities and Science, from 2007 until the end of 2013, as Chief of Staff and then Special Adviser in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Previously, he was a History teacher and worked at the Association of British Insurers. At the 2010 general election, he was the runner-up in Cambridge.

Thomas Hills is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Warwick and Director of the MSc in Behavioural and Data Science.  His research uses big data, network science, and natural language processing to make inferences about the structure of memory over the lifetime and culture over generations.

Randi Hjalmarsson is a Professor of Economics at the University of Gothenburg, currently runing the PhD programme. Randi is a labor economist, and has conducted extensive research on the economics of crime and the criminal justice system.