Experts

Farah Said is an Assistant Professor at the Lahore School of Economics and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Economics and Business. She studies dynamics of poverty and gender in LMICs. Her current research investigates the effectiveness of community engagement in improving learning outcome; the role of aspirations and microfinance in supporting female labor force participation; and the role of behavioral biases in the demand for credit and saving among microfinance borrowers.

Thomas Sampson is an Associate Professor of economics at the London School of Economics. His research studies the impact of globalisation on workers, firms and productivity. Thomas is also an academic adviser to the Bank of England and an associate at the Centre for Economic Performance where he has worked extensively on the economic consequences of Brexit.
Prior to joining the London School of Economics, Thomas worked as an Overseas Development Institute Fellow at the Bank of Papua New

Patricia Sánchez Juanino is Associate Economist at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. She works in the Macroeconomic Modelling and Forecasting Team, in which her work focuses on NiGEM model development, production of the institute’s quarterly forecasts for several global economies and participation in academic research projects. Her main research interests are international macroeconomics, climate change and econometric modelling.

Sabina is a Health Economist in the Health Economics Bristol (HEB) group at the University of Bristol. Her expertise is in (1) the measurement and valuation of health and broader outcomes and (2) economic evaluation of public health interventions with intersectoral costs and benefits. Sabina’s current NIHR fellowship explores how best to account for the impact of fluctuating health states on quality of life measures included in economic evaluation.

Dr. Santamaria holds a PhD in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She joined the University of Warwick as an Assistant Professor in 2019. She received the Young Economist Award by the European Economic Association (2019). Her main fields of expertise are International Trade, Spatial Economics and Urban Economics. Recently she has been working on the economics of Transport Infrastructure, the persistence of Border frictions in Europe and the allocation of Public Procurement in

Stéphane Saussier is a Professor of Economics and Public Management at the Sorbonne Business School – University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne – where he is running a research group working on the Economics of Public Private Partnerships. He is also a Professor of Economics at the Blavatnik School of Government – Oxford. Stéphane is regularly involved in reports for international institutions such as OECD, UN and European Parliament.