Experts

Andrew Perchard is Professor of the History of Business and Work and Head of the Management Group at Edinburgh Napier University Business School. His areas of expertise include business-government relations, deindustrialization, energy policy, and public ownership and privatisation. A former Head of Energy Supply Policy at the Scottish Government, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Royal Society of Arts.

Giovanni Peri is Professor of Economics and Director of the Global Migration Center at UC Davis. His research analyzes the economic determinants and consequences of international migrations with focus on labor markets and local economies. He has published in leading Academic Journals such as The American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies and the Journal of European Economic Association. The Economist, the BBC, the New York Times and NPR news have often featured his research.

Sarah Perret works as an economist and deputy head of unit at OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. Her role involves assessing countries’ tax systems and advising them on tax reform. She has also been leading the work on wealth and inheritance taxation at the OECD and is the author of a number of studies on taxation, inequality and inclusive growth.

Barbara Petrongolo is Lord Maurice Peston Professor of Economics at Queen Mary University, Director of the CEPR Labour Economics Programme and Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics. She is currently managing co-editor of the Economic Journal. Her primary research interests are in labour economics. Her work also researches the causes of gender inequalities in labour market outcomes, in a historical perspective and across countries.

David, an Associate Director at the IFS, has particular expertise in two areas. Firstly, devolved and local government finance, where he has analysed fiscal rules, funding allocations and local risks in the context of Covid-19. Secondly, tax and social protection policy in developing countries, where he helps lead the DfID-funded TaxDev programme, which has been supporting partner governments’ policy development and appraisal and publishing broader research and analysis on the Covid-19

Jim Phillips is a leading authority on deindustrialisation in Scotland. He has pioneered the use of a moral economy framework for explaining the social and political results of lost employment in industrial sectors since the 1950s. Deindustrialisation was broadly accepted as fair in Scotland in the 1960s and 1970s because the security of workers and communities affected was protected by Labour governments at UK level. Employment alternatives were stimulated. Conservative governments at UK level