Bethan Staton is a reporter for the Financial Times, covering education. She has recently written about the UK’s skills gap, the politics of intergenerational inequality, government funding for higher education, and the impact of the pandemic on schools. She also writes about economics and other areas of public policy, and before joining the FT was a reporter at Sky News, and a freelance journalist in the middle east.
Financial Times
Bethan Staton
Zurich University and Cerge-Ei
Jakub Steiner
Jakub Steiner is an economic theorist and has made contributions to the economics of information acquisition and to a theory of economic coordination. He is now pursuing and ERC consolidator grant within which he develops micro-foundations to stylized facts of the behavioural economics. Recently, during the covid crisis, he tries to apply economic theory to issues ranging from optimal test allocation to safe organization of a workplace, or management of uncertainty over the effectiveness of
University of Cambridge
Sam Stephenson
Sam Stephenson is currently a PhD student at the University of Cambridge with a focus on the economics and politics of climate change. His work looks at political barriers to action on climate change and works to develop policy solutions that are in keeping with the latest scientific research
on technology deployment rates and the future availability of zero carbon electricity.
University College London
Andrew Steptoe
Andrew Steptoe is professor of psychology and epidemiology at UCL, where he is also head of the Department of Behavioural Science and Health, and director of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). He was previously British Heart Foundation Professor of Psychology (2000-2016), and Director of the Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care (2011-2017). His work is focused on psychological and social processes related to physical health, health behaviour change, and population ageing.
University College London
Vincent Sterk
Vincent Sterk is an Associate Professor in macroeconomics at the Economics Department of University College London. Previously, he was an economist at the Dutch Central Bank and received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam. His research aims to better understand the monetary transmission, the mechanism, the business cycle, and firm dynamics. A common theme in his research is to explore the importance of heterogeneity among economic agents and non-linear effects.
London School of Economics and Political Science
Nicholas Stern
Lord Stern is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Head of the India Observatory at the London School of Economics. He was President of the Royal Economic Society (2018-19) and President of the British Academy (2013- 2017). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (June 2014). He has held academic appointments in the UK at Oxford, Warwick, the LSE and abroad at the Massachusetts Institute of
