Experts

Flavio Toxvaerd has fifteen years’ research experience in the economics of infectious diseases. His focus is on behavioural responses to epidemics, to better understand how people behave when facing disease risks. He has also researched optimal management of diseases through different policies such as voluntary social distancing, lockdowns, vaccination, treatment and testing. He has published on economic epidemiology in biology and economics journals and served as Senior Economic Advisor to

Anna works as a Behavioural Scientist at Lloyds Banking Group. She has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Warwick. She has an interest in generating behavioural insights from financial data. Previously, her research focused on estimating carbon footprints and understanding financial wellbeing from transactional data.

Karen is a Peruvian economist, currently student at the MSc programme in Global Health Policy at LSE. She holds a Master in Public Policy and Development from Toulouse School of Economics (TSE). She was previously an economic and policy analyst across several Ministries in Peru, such as Economy and Finance, Education and Production. Her research interests include economic valuation methods in health care policies, mental health and, regulatory impact analysis.

Peter Tschmuck is professor for Cultural Institutions Studies with a focus on music business/industry research and the economics of copyright. He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Music Business Research founder of the International Music Business Research Association (IMBRA) and teaches courses at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. In 2010, he held a guest-professorship at the James-Cook University in Townsville/Australia. Image credit: Sabine Hauswirth

Aki Tsuchiya is a professor of health economics at the University of Sheffield, with a joint appointment between the Department of Economics and the School of Health and Related Research. Her main research interests are in: (1) valuing health, and other aspects of wellbeing from a social perspective; (2) quantifying aversion to inequality in health and wellbeing; and (3) normative economics of health and beyond.

Paul Tucker is a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy school, the author of Unelected Power, the chair of the Systemic Risk Council, the President of NIESR, and a former central banker.