Experts

Renee Luthra is a sociologist with expertise in international migration, social stratification, and quantitative methods. Her current research interests include migration and inequalities in parenting, education, work and health. She is the author (with Thomas Soehl and Roger Waldinger) of Origins and Destinations: the making of the second generation, published in 2018 by the Russell Sage Foundation.

Bruce Lyons is Professor of Economics and member of Centre for Competition Policy.  He was formerly Editor of Journal of Industrial Economics, member of EU’s Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy and member of UK Competition Commission. He is Academic Advisor on competition economics to KPMG.  Bruce’s research focuses on economics of competition policy, including mergers, ‘rescue and restructuring’ (i.e. crisis) state aid, transactional fairness, and institutional reform.

Alistair Macaulay is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Oxford. His research interests are in macroeconomics, information economics, and household finance. His work on the business cycle implications of limited household attention to savings choices has been shortlisted for the 2020 Society for Computational Economics Student Paper Prize and the 2020 ECB Young Economists’ Competition.

Corrado Macchiarelli is Manager for Global Macroeconomics Research at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research’s (NIESR). Corrado’s work focuses on macroeconomics, financial economics, business cycles, the economic governance of the Economic and Monetary Union and the European Union.

Ronald MacDonald OBE is Professor of Macroeconomics and International Finance, University of Glasgow. His research interests span a range of topics in international finance and macroeconomics, including sustainable economic development. He has acted as an adviser to the European Commission, the ECB, the National Audit Office, the World Bank, and the IMF. He has also acted as an expert witness to various committees of the Scottish Parliament, the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee and the

Stephen Machin is a Fellow of the British Academy, has been President of the European Association of Labour Economists, Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and was a member of the Low Pay Commission from 2007-14. Current research areas include: labour economics; economics of education; economics of crime; empirical and policy analysis of inequality and social mobility.