Experts

Samuel Cohn is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and an honorary fellow of IASH. Over the past 20 years he has specialised in the history of popular unrest in late medieval and early modern Europe and in the history of disease and medicine. He has published books on labour history, popular insurrection, women in the Renaissance, religious piety, violence, ritual, and medical history and epidemics from the Plague of Athens to

Dr Cojoianu’s research is at the intersection between data science, finance and sustainable development and informs timely insights towards the achievement of sustainable development outcomes. His work has led him to be invited as a Member of the European Commission’s Platform on Sustainable Finance. Dr Cojoianu also serves as: an Academic-in-Residence in Sustainable Nation Ireland and Agent Green, on the advisory board of the EU Energy Efficiency Mortgages Initiative, as a member of

Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Public Policy Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and a Director of the International Growth Centre, and the ESRC research network, Social Macroeconomics. His research covers the transformation from poverty to prosperity; state fragility; the implications of group psychology for development; migration and refugees; urbanization in poor countries and the crisis in modern capitalism, which is the subject of his most recent book, The

Jonathan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia’s Department of Economics and Director of the Environmental Inequality Lab. He combines data with insights from economic theory and environmental science to understand how economic activity and the natural environment influence one another.

Chris Colvin is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Queen’s University Belfast and Research Associate at the university’s Centre for Economic History. He has written extensively on the interwar economy and specialises in the causes, anatomy and consequences of financial crises. He is also interested in measuring the long-run consequences of health crises and is currently working on quantifying the demographic impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic.

I have a broad spectrum of interests across applied economics, but especially in environmental and energy economics, trade, inequality and macroeconomics. Amongst other projects, I have worked on the link between state size and productivity using trade models, the problem of optimal climate change policy using models with credit frictions, and I have studied inequality using microsimulation models. The common theme to my work is studying and trying to inform long term policy issues.