Experts

Gabriella Conti is Associate Professor in Economics at University College London and Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and IZA. She is an expert in the lifelong impacts of early shocks, investments and policies, and in the role of child development in the production of lifecycle health. Gabriella has been recently awarded he Philip Leverhulme Prize in Economics, the Nick Hales Award and the ERC Consolidator Award.

Richard Cookson is a professor at the Centre for Health Economics, University of York. He has helped pioneer “equity-informative” methods of policy analysis, including distributional cost-effectiveness analysis; health equity indicators for healthcare quality assurance; and methods for investigating public concern for reducing health inequality. He has co-chaired international working groups on equity, worked in the UK Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit and served on various NHS advisory

Francesca Cornaglia is an Associate Professor at Queen Mary University of London. She is an IZA Research Fellow and previously held a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at UCL. Her main research interest is in health economics. Her early work was on smoking behaviour. She has also contributed to the literature on wellbeing and mental health. More recently her research focus has been on socioeconomic inequalities in health.

Ed Cornforth is an Associate Economist at NIESR. His research interests include macroeconomic modelling, fiscal policy, inequality, money creation, and the impacts of climate change on economic growth. He currently works on the use and development of the National Institute’s global econometric model (NiGEM).

Laura Coroneo is an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of York and executive committee member of the Money, Macro and Finance (MMF) Society. Her primary field of research is applied macro-finance, with a particular focus on econometrics and empirical finance. Her research investigates the yield curve of government bonds and its relation with macroeconomic fundamentals. She also works on forecast evaluation, monetary policy and financial econometrics.

Andrea holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and a master’s degree in public administration from the London School of Economics (LSE), specializing in economic policy. She has served as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), evaluating the impacts of COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, and the effects of climate change and natural disasters on several economies in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Andrea has contributed to