Experts

Ilan Noy is the Chair in the Economics of Disasters and Climate Change at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand. His research and teaching focus on the economic aspects of hazards, disasters, and climate change, and other related topics. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, a journal published by SpringerNature.

Laurence has worked at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in 2020 as a Research Economist in the Retirement, Saving and Ageing sector. He currently works on projects related to pension savings over the lifecycle and the labour market activity of older workers. Prior to joining the IFS, he worked as a research professional at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Martin is Deputy Research Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and heads the Consumption Sector. His research focuses on public economics, industrial organisation and applied microeconometrics. He has published several articles on the effects and design of public policy aimed at altering consumer and firm behaviour.

Mary O’Mahony is Professor of Applied Economics at King’s Business School. Her broad research area is measuring and explaining international comparisons of growth and productivity, including the impact of labour force skills, information technology, intangible capital and innovation in generating productivity. Recent work has been concerned with incorporating health status into measures of human capital measuring the output of the education sector and using web-based data sources to

Kevin O’Rourke is an economist and economic historian, and is currently Professor of Economics at NYU Abu Dhabi. He was formerly the Chichele Professor of Economic History at All Souls College, Oxford. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and Fellow of the British Academy, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Southern Denmark in 2022. He works on the history of globalization and deglobalization. His books include Globalization & History (with Jeff Williamson), Power

Morten is a macroeconomist who has interests both in applied macroeconomics and in macroeconomic theory. Recent work has been concerned with a wide range of topics surrounding monetary and fiscal policy, aggregate business cycles, inequality and incomplete markets, and using external instruments for identification in macroeconometrics. I am a professor of economics at University College London, research fellow of the CEPR, board member of the Danish National Research Foundation and a founding member