Experts

Dawn Holland is a Consultant on macroeconomic modelling and forecasting for the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) and the United Nations, and is a Member of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. She has served as Chief of Global Economic Monitoring at the UN and as a Principal Research Fellow at NIESR, where she remains a Fellow. Her research interests include issues related to macroeconomic modelling and forecasting, production functions and fiscal multipliers.

Alex is a faculty at the Miami Herbert Business School specialized in financial economics, econometrics, and experimental and behavioral economics. He graduated from Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina) with a Licentiate degree in Economics and from Arizona State University (USA) with a Ph.D. in Economics. Among other outlets, Alex has published in Econometrica, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of the European Economic Association, and Management Science.

Julius Horvath is Professor of Economics and former Head of the Department of Economics at the Central European University. He is a member of Academia Europea and a member of the Council of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought. His primary interest lies in international economic policy issues, the political economy of monetary relations, and the history of economic thought. He has published in journals such as Journal of Comparative Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy,

Professor Houston has over 20 years’ experience of research on the implications of urban and regional change for labour market disadvantage, particularly the roles of migration, transport, health, socio-economic segregation and housing in urban economic development. Public policy implications feature strongly in his work. He has previously held appointments at the Universities of Dundee, Glasgow and St Andrews, and is currently professor of Economic Geography at the University of Portsmouth.

Neil’s research looks at labour exploitation and social marginalisation. He examines the impact of economic shocks on labour ‘freedom’ and studies social protection interventions such as cash transfers and basic income. He has worked for extensive periods in West Africa and currently manages two research projects in India and Bangladesh.

Anthony Howe is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of East Anglia. He is the main editor of The Letters of Richard Cobden (1804-1865) (four volumes, Oxford University Press, 2007-2015) and collaborator in The Letters of Richard Cobden Online (to be launched September 2023). His other publications include Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946 (1998). He is currently engaged on an international history of free trade from Adam Smith to the World Trade organization.