Experts

Zara is an expert on how diversity and inclusion can shape more dynamic and productive teams and a more engaging and empowering workplace. She is an entrepreneur who believes business can generate social impact as well as revenues and profits. She is a Research Fellow at University of West of England, a member of the Future Council on Equity and Social Justice at the World Economic Forum and and leads the membership of Gapsquare in the Equal Pay International Coalition (ILO).

Angela Nartey is a policy officer at the University and College Union (UCU). Angela is leading on work to develop proposals for improving fairness, accessibility and transparency in undergraduate application and admission processes. Recent publications include: Higher education admissions: the time for change (2020) and Post-qualification application: a student-centred model (2019). Prior to joining UCU, Angela has worked in policy roles in the further education, voluntary and health sectors.

Max Nathan is Associate Professor in Applied Urban Sciences at CASA, University College London, an associate in the CEP Urban Programme and a Research Fellow at IZA. He is also a Deputy Director of the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth. He is an economic geographer with a background in public policy. His work looks at urban economic development, especially innovation systems and clusters; immigration and diversity; and public policy for cities.

James Nazroo is Deputy Director (and previously founding Director) of the Centre of Dynamics of Ethnicity and co-Director (and previously founding Director) of the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing. His research focuses on social and health inequalities in later life, and on ethnic/racial inequalities in health examining how this relates to different dimensions of inequality that are shaped by processes of racism.

Kyriakos Neanidis is Reader in Macroeconomics at the University of Manchester and research affiliate at the Growth and Business Cycle Research Group. His research activity has covered a wide range of theoretical and empirical topics in development macroeconomics, with focus on issues that relate to economic growth, foreign aid, and public finance. He has also contributed to the economics of crime, while recently monetary and macroprudential policymaking have become major interests.

Christopher Neilson is an assistant professor of economics at Princeton University. He studies education markets and information frictions using a combination of empirical methods drawn from Labor Economics and Empirical Industrial Organization.