Experts

Giovanna Michelon is Professor of Accounting at the University of Bristol, where she co-leads the Accountability Sustainability and Governance Research Group. Her research interests are in the field of sustainability accounting and reporting, and her published work has focused on the governance process and systems that underpin corporate actions and accountability on sustainability issues. and the role that sustainability information plays in capital markets. Her work has been published in many

Lucie Middlemiss’s research focuses on the intersection between environmental and social problems, with a particular interest in finding solutions to fuel poverty, and other forms of vulnerability as part of the Net Zero transition. She has also been part of a team who developed a social relations approach to energy research, understanding the role of relationships and identities in shaping people’s energy consumption.

I am Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Reading and Director of the Group for Economic Analysis at Reading (GEAR), also Associate Editor of Open Economies Review. I have been employed by the University of Essex, the Créa Institute of Applied Macroeconomics at the University of Lausanne, and the Bulgarian National Bank. I hold a PhD in Economics from the University of Lausanne (2004). My work is mostly in international macroeconomics, monetary policy and socioeconomic dynamics.

Claudio Milano is a social anthropologist with a background in economics. He is a Senior Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona and he is Co-Chair of the Commission on the Anthropology of Tourism of the (IUAES). His primary area of expertise lies into political economy of tourism. His research focuses on the dynamics of touristification processes, exploring how societies respond to and resist these changes through social movements,

David Miles was a member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England between May 2009 and September 2015. As an economist he has focused on the interaction between financial markets and the wider economy. He was Chief UK Economist at Morgan Stanley from October 2004 to May 2009. In 2004 he led a government review of the UK mortgage market. He recently completed a review for the UK Treasury on reference prices of UK government bonds. He is an advisor to the IMF and to the reserve Bank

Stephen is the Deputy Director for Macroeconomics at NIESR. He has a PhD from Northwestern University, supervised by the late Nobel Laureate Dale Mortensen. Prior to joining NIESR, he worked for 26 ½ years at the Bank of England in a variety of policy, research and managerial roles. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Durham University Business School and the University of Portsmouth. His research covers the broad area of macroeconomics with a focus on unemployment and inflation dynamics.