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Chief Economist, World Bank Group

Carmen M. Reinhart

Carmen M. Reinhart is Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank Group, on public service leave from Harvard Kennedy School where she is the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System. Her work has helped to inform the understanding of financial crises in both advanced economies and emerging markets. She has published extensively on capital flows, exchange rate policy, banking and sovereign debt crises, and contagion.

University of Exeter, Business School

David Reinstein 

His research considers motivators and consequences of (effective) charitable giving and other-regarding behaviour. Other work concerns returns to higher education, strategic behavior by policymakers/traders, and the design and meta-analysis of lab/field experiments. Recent publications: ‘Ex-ante Commitments to “Give if you Win…”(JPubE), ‘Losing Face’, (OEP), ‘Empathic and Numerate Giving…’ (SPPS). Developing open-access collaborative

LSE

Ricardo Reis

Ricardo Reis is the A.W. Phillips Professor of Economics at the LSE, where he directs the Centre for Macroeconomics. He won the 2016 Bernacer prize for best young European macroeconomist and the 2017 BdF/TSE prize in monetary economics. His research areas are inflation expectations, unconventional monetary policy, central bank’s balance sheet, disagreement and inattention, business cycle models with inequality, automatic stabilizers, sovereign-bond backed securities, and capital

University of Strathclyde

Jennifer Remnant

Jen is a Chancellor’s Fellow in the Scottish Centre for Employment Research, University of Strathclyde. Before working in academia she worked in adult health and social care. She is particularly interested in management of long-term ill health and disability in the workplace, and notions of conditionality and deservingness. When not at work, Jen spends as much time as possible up mountains, in boats and/or dancing.

University of Bristol

Simeon Richards

Simeon is a second year BSc Economics student at the University of Bristol.

Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis, University of Essex

Matteo Richiardi

Matteo Richiardi is a labour economist specializing in microsimulation and agent-based modelling techniques. His main areas of interest are inequality, worker insecurity, labour force participation and wage dynamics. He is the Director of the Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis at the University of Essex, a member of the board of the International Microsimulation Association and is the Chief Editor of the International Journal of Microsimulation.