Experts

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.

Dr. Hassan Hakimian is Professor of Economics and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Department (MESD) at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. During 2010-19, he was Director of the London Middle East Institute (LMEI) and Reader in the Economics Department at SOAS University of London. Prior to that, he was an Associate Dean at Cass Business School, London, where he was responsible for Executive MBA Programs and set up pioneering EMBA programs in Shanghai and Dubai. His research

Sarah Hall is a Professor of Geography and Fellow of St John’s College, University of Cambridge, and a Senior Fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe. Her research centres on services trade, particularly financial services, with a focus on the uneven economic geographies of post-Brexit UK. She has provided evidence to a range of trade bodies, policy makers and the media including at Westminster, to the Scottish Parliament, The Financial Times, the BBC, The New York Times and The Daily Telegraph.