Mark is an independent policy and urban consultant and Visiting Professor of Public Policy at King’s College London. He has been a government adviser at the No10 Strategy Unit, a senior civil servant at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and a policy director for three London Mayors. He is the author or co-author of four books, including A European Welfare State? (Palgrave) and Working Capital: Life and Labour in Contemporary London (Routledge) and more than 100 published papers. In 2015, he
Independent policy and urban consultant, and Visiting Professor, Policy Institute, King’s College London
Mark Kleinman
European Central Bank
Alicja Kobayashi
Alicja is an Economist Trainee at the European Central Bank in the Euro Area External Sector and Euro Adoption division within the trade forecast and DSGE modeling team. Alicja established the ECB Trainee Research Journal of Economics and Applied Mathematics for which she serves as the Editor-in-Chief. She holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics with a focus on International and Quantitative Economics. She also holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Bristol.
Lund University, Sweden
Max Koch
An ongoing theme of Prof Koch’s research has been the ways in which political and economic restructuring are reflected in welfare and employment relations as well as in structures of social inequality. More recently, he started to combine these research interests with issues of ecological sustainability, particularly climate change, sustainable welfare and degrowth/postgrowth societies. He also carries out research into promoting synergy across economic, environmental and social policies.
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Zsóka Kóczán
Zsoka Koczan is a Lead Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Prior to joining the EBRD Zsoka worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund in the European and Research Departments. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge. Her current research focuses on within-country income disparities, migration and inequality.
Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College
Felix Koenig
Felix Koenig studies the drivers of economic inequality and unemployment, focusing on the impact of technical change and labour market policies on the world of work. He is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and an associate at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and the Institute of Labour Economics (IZA).
University of Birmingham
Santosh Koirala
Santosh Koirala is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Birmingham. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Strathclyde. His research interest lies in corporate risk-taking, investment decisions and M&As, with a focus on law and regulatory interventions. Santosh was a commercial banker and public sector finance specialist, and thus brings 9 years of private and public sector insights to his academic research. He also specializes in emerging market finance. His current
