Experts

Jessica Metcalf is a demographer with broad interests in evolutionary ecology, infectious disease dynamics and public policy, working as part of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and the School of Public and International Affairs, at Princeton University.

After finishing a BSc in Economics and Mathematics, I then completed a master’s in International Development. My main interests include the economics of developing countries, environmental policy, and the growing power and influence of Big Tech firms. I have also produced written work on the role of agricultural reform in mitigating the climate crisis. I am interested in the intersection between journalism, academia, and public understanding of economic policy.

Giovanna Michelon is Professor of Accounting at the University of Bristol, where she co-leads the Accountability Sustainability and Governance Research Group. Her research interests are in the field of sustainability accounting and reporting, and her published work has focused on the governance process and systems that underpin corporate actions and accountability on sustainability issues. and the role that sustainability information plays in capital markets. Her work has been published in many

David Miles was a member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England between May 2009 and September 2015. As an economist he has focused on the interaction between financial markets and the wider economy. He was Chief UK Economist at Morgan Stanley from October 2004 to May 2009.

In 2004 he led a government review of the UK mortgage market. He recently completed a review for the UK Treasury on reference prices of UK government bonds. He is an advisor to the IMF and to the

Stephen is the Deputy Director for Macroeconomics at NIESR. He has a PhD from Northwestern University, supervised by the late Nobel Laureate Dale Mortensen. Prior to joining NIESR, he worked for 26 ½ years at the Bank of England in a variety of policy, research and managerial roles. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Durham University Business School and the University of Portsmouth. His research covers the broad area of macroeconomics with a focus on unemployment and inflation dynamics.

Helen is Deputy Director of the IFS and head of their Tax sector. She is chair of the Royal Economic Society’s Communications Committee. Her main research interests are the effects of the tax system on individuals and firms behaviour and the design of tax policy. She has written extensively on the tax treatment of self-employment. Her recent research also includes work on the drivers of firm investment and the UK productivity puzzle.