Experts

Marco Mello is a Postgraduate Research Fellow at the University of Surrey where he works on a project to understand how staff retention can be improved to ease workforce pressures in the NHS. In Summer 2023 he takes up a lectureship at the University of Aberdeen.  Marco’s research interests span political economy, health economics, labour economics and consumption.  He has published work (with Giuseppe Moscelli) on the impact of Italian elections on Covid transmission and his work on how winning

Livia Menezes is an assistant professor at the University of Birmingham and a research affiliate at IZA. Her research focuses on public policy analysis related to crime, education, health and labour. Livia received her PhD in economics from the University of Leicester in 2018.

Niccolo? Meriggi is Country Economist for IGC Sierra Leone. Niccolo?’s research uses rigorous methodologies to explore how people living in developing or emerging countries can be best encouraged to adopt technologies or behaviours that are likely welfare improving or socially desirable. Niccolo? has been conducting large scale experiments in the domain of energy, governance, health and taxation. He has been working in Sierra Leone for the past 5 years, advising government and development

Alice Mesnard is a development economist and Reader of Economics at City, specialised in public policy evaluation and analysis. Among her contributions to this field, she has studied the links between migration and health risks. This has led her to investigate unexpected effects of quarantine measures as observed following the outbreaks of SARS, Ebola and Covid-19 and to develop an app to help people move about safely during pandemics.

Jessica Metcalf is a demographer with broad interests in evolutionary ecology, infectious disease dynamics and public policy, working as part of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and the School of Public and International Affairs, at Princeton University.

I am a freelance writer, editor and communications consultant based in London. I specialise in economics, policy and international affairs, and in how best to communicate and amplify research findings. I also regularly write about UK public data. I hold a visiting fellowship at the London School of Economics (LSE) within the School of Public Policy, and am Managing Editor of La Fonte – an online blog I co-founded to promote the latest research from economists based at the European University