Experts

Martin Chick is Professor of Economic History at the University of Edinburgh. His previous books include a study of the economic planning of the Attlee governments, 1945-1951, and an analysis of the development of energy policies in the UK, France, and the United States since 1945. His latest project concerns the economic use of the sea and the sea bed, and examines such issues as whaling, fisheries, the law of the sea, and the dumping of hazardous waste at sea.

Aftab Chowdhury is a PhD student in the Economics Section at Cardiff University. His research interest is in macroeconomics and economic measurement. Currently, he is working on the measurement issues of inflation during COVID pandemic. Before joining Cardiff University, he completed his MSc in Economics at the University of Glasgow. Moreover, he has been serving as a faculty member in the Department of Banking and Insurance, University of Dhaka (Bangladesh) since 2012.

Paula’s research interests lie in the intersection of public health, policy change, data science, and epidemiology. Currently, she is conducting research on which types and sources of evidence contribute to decisions taken around new vaccine introductions in low- and middle- income countries. She also works closely with organizations at the international and national level as a data scientist and epidemiology consultant to the WHO and UK Health Security Agency.

Dr. Wanyu Chung is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Economics at the University of Birmingham and Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Her areas of expertise are international trade, international economics, and international macroeconomics. She received a PhD from the University of Warwick.

Matthew Clancy is currently faculty in the department of economics at Iowa State University and formerly a research economist at the US Department of Agriculture, where he specialized in science policy. He has published research on innovation, especially agricultural innovation, and remote work.

Ken is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and an IZA Research Fellow. He is a member of the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity and sits on the School Teachers’ Review Body.  His research mainly uses large data sets and econometric techniques to investigate the labour market outcomes of ethnic minority and immigrant groups in the UK, focusing on self-employment and earnings.  His work has been published in a range of academic and policy outlets.