Experts

Oliver is Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Liverpool and Director of Research for Economics at the University of Liverpool Management School. His earlier career included positions at the European Central Bank, the University of St Andrews, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the University of Cambridge. His research interests and expertise are in monetary and fiscal policy, business cycles, and the link between the economy and the financial sector.

Jan’s research interests are in behavioural economics, public policy and human wellbeing. He is the Director of the Wellbeing Research Centre. His research has been published in academic outlets such as Science, Nature, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Psychological Science, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The underlying theme throughout his research is the study of human wellbeing. This ongoing research agenda has led to new insights in

Aureo de Paula is Professor of Economics at University College London, also affiliated with the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and CEPR. Professor de Paula’s research has been published in top economics journals, and is at the intersection of applied economic theory, econometrics, and empirical microeconomics; it features both methodological contributions, such as on identification and estimation of multi-agent models, as well as empirical

Laure is a health and environmental economist. Her research interests span from climate change policies’ evaluation to the determinants of health, with a particular focus on the effect of climate and pollution on individual’s health, behaviour and economic inequalities. Laure regularly collaborates with experts from natural science and medicine to address pressing issues caused by climate change and aims to support the financial as well as environmental sustainability of organisations. Her

Claudio Deiana is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Cagliari (Italy) and Visiting Fellow at the Department of Economics at the University of Essex (UK) where he obtained his Ph.D. in Economics in 2017. Until 2018, he worked as a Research Economist at the Competence Centre for Microeconomic Evaluation of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (Italy). His research interests are focused on public economics, the economics of crime, and health

Emilia’s research agenda focuses on disparities in children’s human capital that lead to inequalities later in life. Her research revolves around three themes: the extent to which maternal health behaviours shape the health and cognitive endowment of children; the way in which differences in educational opportunities affect later educational attainment, labour market outcomes, and long-term life chances; and the effects of maternal time inputs on children’s cognitive and non-cognitive