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University of Oxford

Jeremias Adams-Prassl

Jeremias Adams-Prassl is Professor of Law at Magdalen College, Oxford. He is particularly interested in the future of work and innovation, his recent books include ‘Humans as a Service: the Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy’ (OUP 2018) and ‘Great Debates in EU Law’ (MacMillan 2021). Since April 2021, Jeremias leads a five-year research project on Algorithms at Work, funded by the European Research Council and a 2020 Leverhulme Prize. He tweets

CAGE

Arun Advani

Arun is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Impact Director of the CAGE Research Centre at the University of Warwick. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Visiting Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute. He studies issues of inequality, tax compliance, and tax design, with a focus on those with high incomes or wealth. He is also co-chair of the Discover Economics campaign, aiming to increase the diversity of people who study and work in

Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge

Matthew Agarwala

Matthew Agarwala leads the Bennett Institute for Public Policy’s Wealth Economy project at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include: wealth accounting, natural and social capital, economic measurement, and the economics of wellbeing. Matthew’s work spans sectors and disciplines, with co-authors including ecologists, economists, conservationists, social anthropologists, civil servants, members of UK Parliament, and Nobel Laureates in peace, medicine, physics, and

College de France, INSEAD, and LSE

Philippe Aghion

Philippe Aghion is a Professor at the College de France and at INSEAD, and a centennial professor at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on the economics of growth and innovation. With Peter Howitt, he pioneered the so-called Schumpeterian Growth paradigm. Much of this work is summarized in their joint book Endogenous Growth Theory (MIT Press, 1998). More recently Philippe Aghion produced a new book entitled The Power of Creative destruction (Harvard University Press) joint with

Khulna University

Firoz Ahmed

Firoz Ahmed is currently Associate Professor at the Economics Discipline at Khulna University in Bangladesh. His research interests are primarily in the areas of applied microeconomics, development economics, and behavioural economics. His recent research focuses on health, agriculture, migration, environment, and disaster management. He has published in several international journals including Food Policy, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, and Migration and

NIESR, Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence

Andrew Aitken

Andrew is a Senior Economist at NIESR and a research associate at ESCoE. He holds a PhD in Economics from Royal Holloway, University of London. He has expertise in the area of labour economics including migration, minimum wages, urban economics and inequality. Current work includes analysing how firms respond to increases in minimum wages, and the development of democratic measures of household and national income.