Experts

Jack is a Research Officer at the Wales Centre for Public Policy, where he has worked on equalities, the economy and decarbonisation. He has recently published reports on race equality in housing, the idea of a ‘just transition’, and the implications of Brexit for Wales. Jack has a PhD in Philosophy from Cardiff University, which focused on the work of Theodor W. Adorno.

Carol is Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School, London. Her research seeks to increase understanding of the factors that affect the production of public services and outcomes for users of these services, with a particular focus on healthcare. Her publications include papers on the effect of market incentives on the quality and productivity of healthcare, the impact of environmental factors on health, the effect of competition on public service production, equity in health and

Eugenio Proto is Research Fellow at CEPR, IZA, CESifo. His research interests range from behavioural economics to development, applying notions of Psychology and recently textual analysis in Economics. He published in the general economic journals Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics and Economic Journal; in several top field economic journals and in some important general scientific journals. He is currently academic editor of Plos One and associate editor of the Journal

Steven Proud is a Reader of Economics Education at the University of Bristol, and a member of the Executive Group for the Economics Network.  He is an applied economist, and his research focuses on education, with a particular interest in developing and evaluating new pedagogies within economics education.  Since 2019, he has been an editor of the International Review of Economics Education.

Talis Putnins is a Professor of Finance at UTS and Chief Scientist of the Digital Finance Co-operative Research Centre. His research interests include financial markets, decentralised finance and blockchains, and forensic finance including market manipulation, insider trading, and criminal financing. Talis regularly serves as a policy advisor and consultant to governments, stock exchanges, financial institutions, and DeFi projects, and an expert witness in legal cases.