Experts

W. Walker Hanlon is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Northwestern University. His research focuses on understanding how economies evolve over the long-run using novel historical data. He is particularly interested in questions related to technological progress, urbanization, demography, international trade, and the environment. Before joining Northwestern, Professor Hanlon spent four years working at NYU’s Stern School of Business, one year as a Kenen Fellow at Princeton

Stephen Hansen is Associate Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School. He has served as an academic consultant to the Bank of England, and has recently held fellowships at the Hoover Institute and Alan Turing Institute.  He is currently a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and CESifo, where he also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board.  Areas of expertise include financial transaction data, machine learning, natural language processing.

Susan Harkness is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Centre for Poverty and Social Justice at the University of Bristol. She is co-Investigator of the ESRC research centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC), where she leads the research programme on ‘Changing family life-courses and inequalities.’ Her research focusses on how gender and family structure relate to inequality and poverty. She has particular interests in maternal employment and single parents’ socio-economic

Richard’s main research is on firm-level productivity, including its determinants (e.g., trade, investment, and innovation). As well as publishing widely in journals on the topic, he has undertaken extensive policy work for bodies like UKTI, UK regional governments, and the North East and Tees Valley LEPs. He is also a research associate of the New Zealand Productivity Commission.

Mark Harrison is a research associate of Warwick’s ESRC Centre on Competitive Advantage in the Global. He works on the economics and politics of the two world wars, and of Russia under communism. His recent books include The Soviet Economy and the Approach of War, 1937-1939 (2018), and One Day We Will Live Without Fear: Everyday Lives Under the Soviet Police State (2016).

Mark Hart is Professor of Small Business and Entrepreneurship at Aston Business School, Associate Director of the Aston Centre for Growth, and is one of the Programme Directors and Academic Lead of the national Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses programme. A 2014 recipient of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion, he has played a national role in promoting enterprise skills and supporting entrepreneurs as well as advising government on small business and entrepreneurship matters.