Experts

Natalie Chen is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and holds a PhD in Economics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. After completing her PhD she spent 2 years as a Research Fellow at London Business School in the Economics Subject Area, and is a CEPR Research Fellow. She is mainly interested in applied issues related to international economics, covering both international trade and international macroeconomics, and is also interested in European Union market

Paul Cheshire, CBE, is an urban economist interested in policy. He has published extensively, especially on urban growth in Europe, urban land and housing markets and the economic effects of land use planning. He has acted as consultant to the UK government and to international organisations. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and won the Royal Economic Society’s Best Paper prize in 2005 and the EIB-ERSA Prize in 2009.

Martin Chick is Professor of Economic History at the University of Edinburgh. His previous books include a study of the economic planning of the Attlee governments, 1945-1951, and an analysis of the development of energy policies in the UK, France, and the United States since 1945. His latest project concerns the economic use of the sea and the sea bed, and examines such issues as whaling, fisheries, the law of the sea, and the dumping of hazardous waste at sea.

Aftab Chowdhury is a PhD student in the Economics Section at Cardiff University. His research interest is in macroeconomics and economic measurement. Currently, he is working on the measurement issues of inflation during COVID pandemic. Before joining Cardiff University, he completed his MSc in Economics at the University of Glasgow. Moreover, he has been serving as a faculty member in the Department of Banking and Insurance, University of Dhaka (Bangladesh) since 2012.

Paula’s research interests lie in the intersection of public health, policy change, data science, and epidemiology. Currently, she is conducting research on which types and sources of evidence contribute to decisions taken around new vaccine introductions in low- and middle- income countries. She also works closely with organizations at the international and national level as a data scientist and epidemiology consultant to the WHO and UK Health Security Agency.

Dr. Wanyu Chung is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Economics at the University of Birmingham and Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Her areas of expertise are international trade, international economics, and international macroeconomics. She received a PhD from the University of Warwick.