Experts

Anna joined the Food Foundation as its first Executive Director at the beginning of June 2015 after 5 years at the Department for International Development.  At DFID Anna led the policy team on nutrition and supported the delivery of the UK’s global commitments to tackle undernutrition. She is a Board member for Veg Power and on the Strategic Policy Council for the International Food Policy Research

Karl is a Professor of Economics at the University of Sheffield and an IZA research fellow. He is a member of the Grant Assessment Panel C of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Employing secondary data research interests include applied micro-econometric analysis, e.g. labour economics and health economics. He has also examined macro-economic policy relevant questions usually from a micro perspective, e.g. household finances, financial expectations, consumption and business

Greg’s work focuses on the industrial economics of technology markets and digital goods, particularly competition policy and industrial regulation for the tech sector. Recent more specific examples of research topics include: the competitive effects of data, intermediary bias, the bundling of digital goods, and online advertising. He holds a PhD from the University of Southampton and is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.

Silvana Tenreyro currently serves as External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England, Vice-President of the European Economic Association and Associate Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics. She is a founding member of CIPPEC, an Argentine independent think-tank. She is a Lead Academic at the Centre for Macroeconomics, and Research Associate at CEP and CEPR. Her main research interests are in Macroeconomics, with a focus on Monetary Policy, Macro-Development and

In 2019, Michèle Tertilt was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Preis by the German Science Foundation (DFG) for her works that bridge the gaps between family economics, development and macroeconomics. One of her main fields of concentration is the relationship between economic development and gender roles. She has also worked on consumer bankruptcy systems and policy interventions in the context of the African HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Gemma Tetlow is chief economist at the Institute for Government. She works across the Institute’s programme areas. She joined the Institute in April 2018. Between 2016 and 2018, Gemma was economics correspondent at the Financial Times, reporting on and analysing economic developments in the UK and globally. Before that, Gemma spent 11 years at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, leading the organisation’s work on public finances and pensions. Gemma has a PhD in economics from University College