Michele Belot is an applied economist, with research interests in health and in labour economics. In the domain of health, her research focuses on the design and interventions targeting health-related behaviours using insights from behavioural economics. In the domain of labour, she is interested in job search behaviour, and specifically in interventions providing targeted advice to job seekers.
European University Institute and University of Edinburgh
Michele Belot
University College London, Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities
Asma Benhenda
Asma’s research expertise focuses on educational policies and inequalities. The first strand of her work focuses on teacher shortage and its consequences for educational inequalities. The second strands focuses on pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). She is currently leading a project on the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York and London School of Economics
Gianluca Benigno
Gianluca Benigno is Assistant Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at LSE. He has published on exchange rate economics, international monetary policy cooperation, monetary and fiscal policy and international capital flows. He has been a consultant at the IMF, IADB, senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and an economist at the Bank of England.
LSE
Erik Berglof
Erik Berglof has published widely in top journals on economic and political transition, corporate governance, financial development and EU reform. He was a member of the Secretariat for the G20 Eminent Persons Group on global financial governance. Currently, he is a member of the EU High-Level Group of Wise Persons on the European development finance architecture, He is also a Brookings Non-Resident Fellow and Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research.
LSE
Tim Besley
Tim Besley is School Professor of Economics and Political Science, W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics at LSE. His main research interests are in development economics, public economics, and political economy, focusing on economic policy formation in developed and emerging market economies. He serves on the National Infrastructure Commission and on the panel of the IFS-led Deaton Review on Inequalities, and is President-elect of the Royal Economic Society.
University of Warwick
Sonia Bhalotra
Applied micro research in health, gender and political economy. Health: dynamic benefits of early interventions (clean water, antibiotics, postnatal care, maternal depression, war), universal health coverage and judicial accountability for the right to health. Gender: gender pay gap, women’s labour force participation, fertility, abortion, maternal mortality, domestic violence, property rights, women’s political participation. Political economy: representation of women and
