Experts

Alexander G. Kemp is Professor of Petroleum Economics at the University of Aberdeen. He has published over 200 papers and books. In 2006, he was awarded the OBE. In June 2011, Professor Kemp was appointed to the Scottish Government’s Energy Advisory Board. He authored The Official History of North Sea Oil and Gas, published in 2012. In 2012 he received the SPE Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2022, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah International

Francis Kennedy worked for 25 years in debt capital markets in the City of London, before completing an MSc and PhD in economic history at the London School of Economics. Most recently, he has worked for Queen’s University, Belfast on an ESRC grant-funded project, The Sterling Area Revisited. De Bromhead et al, 2022 is a recent output from this study.

Dr. Seán Kenny is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Economics in University College Cork, Ireland and is a research affiliate of Lund University, Sweden and Queen’s University, Belfast. His research focuses primarily on macroeconomic history, with particular focus on financial crises, public debt, political economy and productivity. He is the Principal Investigator on the project External Shocks and Fiscal Sustainability.

Michael Kenny is Professor of Public Policy and inaugural director of the Bennett Institute of Public Policy at Cambridge University. His expertise lies in public policy, governance, territorial politics, British politics and political ideas. His current work is around the territorial implications of Brexit, the policy dilemmas associated with left-behind communities and the remaking of the British state.

Soumaya Keynes is the Britain Economics Editor for The Economist, based in London. She also co-host a podcast called Trade Talks. Before joining The Economist Soumaya did research on the public finances and pensions at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Amjad Muhammad Khan an economist currently working as a Young Professional in The World Bank’s Global Water Practice (Washington, DC). His research interests lie at the intersection of development, labor, and urban economics. Much of his work also revolves around themes from political economy, economic history, economic geography, and the economics of culture, identity and religion.