Experts

Michael Weber is an Associate Professor of Finance at Chicago Booth. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Monetary Economics and Asset Pricing groups, a member of the Macro Finance Society, and a research affiliate at the CESifo Research Network. His research interests include asset pricing, macroeconomics, international finance, and household finance.

Christine Whitehead is Emeritus Professor in Housing Economics at the London School of Economics. She is an internationally respected applied economist concentrating in the fields of housing economics, finance and policy.  She has worked with a wide range of international agencies as well as regularly for the UK government and Parliament. She is currently specialist adviser to the Levelling Up Select Committee. Her latest book with Geoff Meen is Understanding Affordability published in

Kemar Whyte is a senior economist in the macroeconomic modelling and forecasting division at NIESR. His main research topics are financial stability and macroprudential policy, with a particular interest in the linkages between the financial and real sector. Most recently, he has also focused on applied macroeconomics and economic policy.

Gemma Williams is a Research Fellow at Birmingham City University (BCU), and co-leads their Family, Gender & Health Research Cluster. Gemma’s research interests include period poverty, menstruation and chronic illness/disabilities. Gemma is currently Project Lead for an ESRC funded research project looking at how UK period poverty initiatives are mitigating Covid-19 related challenges.

Mark Williams is a Professor of Human Resource Management in the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London. Mark’s expertise is on the quality of jobs (e.g., wages, security, nature of job content, job control, job demands) in the United Kingdom. He has particular expertise in job quality disparities across occupations and classes. His research has also explored disparities in job attitudes (e.g., job satisfaction, job meaningfulness).

Riley is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Brigham Young University. He studies labor markets and the impacts of government social programs. His recent work explores people’s decisions to move to economic opportunity, behavioral responses to programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence.