Experts

Guto Ifan is part of the Wales Fiscal Analysis (WFA) programme within Cardiff University’s Wales Governance Centre. His research interests include public finances, fiscal policy, and tax devolution. The WFA programme regularly publishes commentary and analysis on the Welsh Government budget and the Welsh economy.

Clément Imbert is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. He was previously Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Nuffield College. His areas of research are development economics, labor economics and public economics. His current research focuses on internal migration in Brazil, China and India. He also studies social protection and tax compliance in Ethiopia, India, Belgium and France.

Dave leads the Economics team at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, an independent social change organisation working to solve UK poverty. Dave’s work focuses on making work a route out of poverty, and at JRF he has worked on the labour market, industrial strategy, productivity and cities. Dave previously worked at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and before that spent two years in the Rwandan civil service.

Annie Irvine is a qualitative researcher with expertise in mental health, employment and welfare systems. Currently at the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health, she is developing a programme of qualitative research on transitions between welfare and employment for people with experience of mental health problems, in the context of a precarious labour market. Annie prioritises research that has policy and practice relevance, whilst also exploring social conceptualisations of mental health.

Asad Islam is the director of the Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability (CDES) and a professor of economics at Monash University. His recent research focuses on social networks, education and health, gender, and technology adoption in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Uganda, Tanzania, and Cambodia. He is currently collaborating with leading NGOs, economists, and public health researchers to address a number of emerging challenges on covid19 issues.

Ian J. Bateman is Director of the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP) at the University of Exeter, UK. Ian is a Member of the Natural Capital Committee and the Board of the UK Joint Nature Conservation Committee. His main research interests revolve around the issue of ensuring sustainable wellbeing through the integration of natural and physical science with economics and by working with business and policy makers.