Experts

Joshua Graff Zivin holds the Pacific Economic Cooperation Chair in International Economic Relations at UC San Diego, with faculty positions in the School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) and the Department of Economics. He serves as director of the GPS Peter F. Cowhey Center on Global Transformation, co-director of the UC San Diego Global Health Institute and research director for International Environmental and Health Studies at the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). 

Alejandro Graziano is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Nottingham. His research in international trade spans a variety of topics, such as the relationship between the structure of markets and the gains from trade, the impact of trade policy uncertainty on economic integration, and the importance of trade facilitation to reduce border frictions.

Ellen specialises in studying the economics of education. Current work includes a PhD on the economics of school choice (specifically the role of school admissions criteria on school and neighbourhood segregation), parent investments in education and evaluation of reforms to teacher pay in England. Previous work includes determinants of children’s outcomes, for example nutrition, month of birth and parents’ marital status.

Green’s research focuses on employment, skills, worklessness, welfare and labour market issues, with a particular focus on regional and local aspects. She also works on geographical dimensions of social and demographic change, and has particular interests in spatial mobility – both migration and commuting.

Richard Green is Professor of sustainable energy business at Imperial College Business School. An economist, he has been studying the economics and regulation of the electricity industry for over 30 years. He has worked on market power in electricity markets, on transmission pricing, and on the economics of decarbonisation, with a particular emphasis on how adding large amounts of renewable generation will change electricity markets and the prices set in them.

Emile is Professor of Composite Materials in the Aeronautics Department and is Head of the Composite Centre at Imperial College London. He was worked in Composites since 1987, firstly at what is now QinetiQ (Farnborough) until moving into Academia in 2003. He has built considerable expertise in polymer composites, and has pioneered the development of structural power composites, which are mechanically load-bearing materials that have the capacity to store and deliver electrical energy.