Nihar is an economist at the Health Foundation and works primarily on labour market issues in health and social care. Previously, he worked as a labour market economist at HM Treasury, where he undertook research on minimum wage policy. Nihar also has prior experience in quantitative and qualitative research at Ofgem and ICF Consulting. His areas of expertise include labour economics, development economics and international trade.
Health Foundation
Nihar Shembavnekar
The University of Sheffield
Anastasia Shesterinina
Dr Shesterinina is Director of the Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow leading the £1.2m Civil War Paths project (https://www.civilwarpaths.org/) and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield. Her field-intensive research examines internal
Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Mehdi Shiva
Mehdi is an Economist at the GO Lab. His work involves enhancing the reliability of impact bond evaluations by promoting robust economic evaluation methods such as cost-effectiveness and decision analysis. Prior to joining the GO Lab team, he worked with medical researchers at the Ninewells Hospital, Dundee to analyse the cost-effectiveness of an innovative methods of diagnosing prostate cancer. Other experience
IFS, Education Policy Institute
Luke Sibieta
Dr Luke Sibieta is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Education Policy Institute. He currently leads IFS’s ongoing work on education spending and resources. His research covers education spending, the teacher labour market and educational inequalities
University of York
Luigi Siciliani
Luigi Siciliani has specialised in the economics of hospitals and has published over 85 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include waiting times for non-emergency treatment, hospital quality competition, contracting theory applied to health care, pay for performance and coordination between health and social care. He is an Editor of the Journal of Health Economics, and member of the European Commission Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health.
Technical University of Munich
Abu Siddique
Abu is a postdoctoral researcher in economics at the Technical University of Munich. His main research interest lies in the field of development economics, particularly in the economic consequences of ethnic discrimination, mental health, endogenous formation of preferences, and the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic in developing countries. Abu holds a PhD in economics from the University of Southampton, an MSc in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Southampton, and a
