Experts

Maria is a PhD candidate in Economics at the London School of Economics. Her research focuses on labour and pubilc economics. She is particularly interested in intergenerational mobility, and how this is affected by the way individuals make choices regarding their occupations. Maria also works on migration and, more recently, on how the crisis has affected self-employed workers.

Elena Verdolini is Professor of Political Economy at the Law Department, University of Brescia and Head of the Sustainable Innovation Unit at the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change. She is the PI of the 2D4D ERC project and Lead Author of the 6th Assessment Report of the IPCC, WGIII. She is an applied economist focusing on innovation dynamics and the economic and distributional impacts of environmental and energy policies.

Sir John Vickers has been Warden of All Souls College since October 2008.  He studied PPE at Oxford University, where he taught economics and was Drummond Professor of Political Economy from 1991 to 2008. He was Chief Economist at the Bank of England and a member of the Monetary Policy Committee 1998-2000; Director General/Chairman of the Office of Fair Trading 2000-05; President of the Royal Economic Society 2007-10; Chair of the Independent Commission on Banking 2010-11; and President of the

Sarah Vickerstaff, Professor of Work and Employment in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent. Sarah is an internationally recognised sociologist and researcher into paid work in later life. In the last 20 years her research on older workers and retirement has been funded by research councils, charities and the UK Government. She is Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).

Peter A. Victor is a Professor Emeritus at York University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from UBC and has worked for 50 years in Canada and abroad on economy and environment issues as an academic, consultant and public servant. His work on ecological economics, notably on environmentally extended input output analysis, ecological macroeconomics, and alternatives to economic growth, is widely cited. He has received several prizes and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Anna Vignoles is a Professor of Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a trustee of the Nuffield Foundation. Anna undertakes research into how we can improve students’ academic achievement and help them develop the skills they need in the labour market. She has a particular interest in researching the inequalities we see in access to education (globally) and, in the UK context, the lower levels of educational success of children