Experts

David Edgerton is a historian who has studied the economic, industrial and technological history of war and militarism notably in the UK. Among his books are England and the Aeroplane (1991, 2019), Warfare State: Britain 1920-1970 (2005), The Shock of the Old (2006, 2019) and The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A twentieth-century History (2019). He has written on analogies between Covid-19 and war in the Guardian and the New Statesman.

Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex has a PhD from MIT and was previously a tenured professor at Wharton. Alex has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos and given the TED talk “What to Trust in a Post-Truth World” and the TEDx talk “The Social Responsibility of Business” with a combined 2.3 million views. Alex’s book, “Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose

David leads the Fraser of Allander Institute’s work on fiscal policy. He is an expert on fiscal devolution and the devolved budgets. He has been adviser to the Scottish Parliament’s Finance Committee since 2016. David also has research interests in inequality and labour markets, and was previously a commissioner on the Scottish Government’s Poverty and Inequality Commission.

Paul Ekins has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of London and is Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources at University College London. He was a Co-Director of the UK Energy Research Centre from 2004-2019. He is currently a member of UNEP’s International Resource Panel and leading on a project on financing the sustainable extraction of critical minerals. He was one of two global Co-Chairs of

Lee Elliot Major OBE is Britain’s first Professor of Social Mobility, based at the University of Exeter. His Penguin book Social Mobility and Its Enemies, co-authored with Stephen Machin, has attracted attention across the world. His book What Works?, provides evidence-informed tips for teachers to improving learning. His expertise is in social mobility, education inequality and the use of evidence to improve outcomes for poorer pupils. He was formerly Chief Executive of the Sutton Trust.

Matt Elliott is Reader of Economics at the University of Cambridge and fellow of Jesus College Cambridge. He works on social and economic networks. A major research focus of his is how social and economic relationships between businesses affect the functioning of markets. He was awarded the Aliprantis Prize by the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in 2012 (joint with Ben Golub, Harvard) and the Wiley Prize in Economics by the British Academy in 2017. He is the principal investigator