Experts

Natacha Postel-Vinay is an economic and financial historian. Her research explores international finance, money and banking from a historical perspective, with a special focus on banking and fiscal crises. She is an expert in the history of the Great Depression. Her research also examines financial crisis resolution and the macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy, public finance and national debt. She teaches monetary and financial history from 1600 to the 21C and is a CEPR Research Affiliate.

Andrew Potter is a Professor in Transport and Logistics at Cardiff University. His research interests are in how freight transport and logistics can be integrated into supply chains, exploring how decisions in these areas interact with each other. A further area of his work is consideration of policy level implications from logistics operations, given the wider contribution these activities make to the economy. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.

Nattavudh (Nick) Powdthavee is a Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School. Nick specialises in well-being (or happiness) economics and behavioural economics, with special interests in the study of casual determinants of well-being, luck and success, and the effectiveness of different nudge policies on well-being and behaviours. He is the author of the popular science book called The Happiness Equation: The Surprising Economics of our Most Valuable Asset and a co-author of The

Sweta Pramanick (MSc, Antwerp) is a PhD student in financial history at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research focuses on understanding how productivity and the integration of new innovative technologies have shaped the UK economy during the twentieth century.

Ian Preston is a Professor in the Department of Economics at University College London. His main research interests are in applied microeconomics, particularly consumer demand, consumption and savings, income distribution, taxation, public spending, migration and the economics of sport.

Jack is a Research Officer at the Wales Centre for Public Policy, where he has worked on equalities, the economy and decarbonisation. He has recently published reports on race equality in housing, the idea of a ‘just transition’, and the implications of Brexit for Wales. Jack has a PhD in Philosophy from Cardiff University, which focused on the work of Theodor W. Adorno.