Experts

Beata Javorcik is Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London. She is on leave from the University of Oxford, where she is Professor of Economics. She specializes in international trade. Her research interests focus on determinants and consequences of inflows of foreign direct investment, implications of services liberalization, evaluation of investment promotion programmes, propagation of shock through production networks and evasion of import duties.

Susan Jebb is professor of diet and population health at the University of Oxford. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.  She leads a research team focused on the treatment of obesity and interventions to encourage healthy and sustainable diets.  Susan also works closely with national policymakers to support the translation of scientific evidence into policy and practice.

Remi Jedwab is an associate professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Elliott School and the Department of Economics of George Washington University and an Affiliated Scholar of the Marron Institute of Urban Management at New York University. Professor Jedwab’s main fields of research are development and growth, urban economics, labor economics and political economy. Some

Cloda Jenkins is Principal Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at UCL and Associate Director of the UCL Centre for Teaching and Learning Economics (CTaLE). She is an expert in pedagogy of economics education in Higher Education, with particular interst in learning and assessment in online or blended courses. In the classroom (face to face or virtual), and in her research, she focuses on how best to develop students’ employability skills within an economic degrees and how to

Dirk Jenter is a Professor at the London School of Economics and was previously on the faculties of Stanford and MIT. His research focuses on corporate governance, the selection and compensation of top executives, M&A, and firms’ interactions with capital markets. His work has been published in all top finance journals, has received numerous awards, and has been featured in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Economist

Sarah Jewell is an Associate Professor in economics at the University of Reading. Her main research interests lie in the fields of the graduate labour market, gender and the labour market, and the economics of sport: with a particular focus on economics insights using cricket data.