Experts

Rachel is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the economics of non-standard working, including zero-hours contracts and part-time work. She is also interested in the application of labour economics to sports data. She was previously an economic consultant, preparing damages calculations and business valuations for international arbitrations and disputes in the UK courts. She worked across a range of industries, including healthcare, energy and financial

Kimberley Scharf is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy and Head of the Economics Department at the University of Birmingham. Her research interests span several subfields of economics, including political economy, public finance, international trade and finance, and industrial organisation. It also reaches out to other disciplines – e.g., marketing and decision sciences. Her research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals and has been funded by the ESRC, the Social

Patrick is a PhD candidate in economics at LSE, and he previously worked as an economist for the Bank of England. His past research has analysed the UK’s productivity slowdown, as well as the likely impacts of Brexit and Scottish independence.

Fabiola is a doctoral researcher at the UCD Michael Smurfit Business Graduate School in Dublin. Her research interests include emission reporting, energy finance and the influence of environmental, social and governance factors on corporate finance. She is a Sherpa to the European Commission’s Platform on Sustainable Finance and has consulted on the EU’s Ecolabel. Fabiola is part of the ClimateDisclosure100 initiative seeking to address the challenge of incomplete corporate

Monika Schnitzer is Professor of Economics at the University of Munich. Her research focuses on innovation, competition policy, and multinational corporations. For the past 20 years, she has been active in policy advice for the German government and the European Commission, including as members of the Expert Commission on Research and Innovation and the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy of DG Competition. Since 2020, she has been a member of the German Council of Economic Experts.

Kim Schoenholtz is Clinical Professor Emeritus of Economics at the NYU Stern School of Business, where he taught macroeconomics and directed the Center for Global Economy and Business. Schoenholtz was Citigroup’s global chief economist from 1997 until 2005. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, of the Financial Research Advisory Committee of the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Financial Research, and of the U.S. Monetary Policy Forum. He is co-author of a popular textbook