Experts

Stephen is the Deputy Director for Macroeconomics at NIESR. He has a PhD from Northwestern University, supervised by the late Nobel Laureate Dale Mortensen. Prior to joining NIESR, he worked for 26 ½ years at the Bank of England in a variety of policy, research and managerial roles. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Durham University Business School and the University of Portsmouth. His research covers the broad area of macroeconomics with a focus on unemployment and inflation dynamics.

Helen is Deputy Director of the IFS and head of their Tax sector. She is chair of the Royal Economic Society’s Communications Committee. Her main research interests are the effects of the tax system on individuals and firms behaviour and the design of tax policy. She has written extensively on the tax treatment of self-employment. Her recent research also includes work on the drivers of firm investment and the UK productivity puzzle.

Anthony Patrick Leslie Minford CBE  is a British macroeconomist who is professor of applied economics at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, a position he has held since 1997. He was Edward Gonner Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Liverpool from 1976 to 1997. In 2016, Minford was a notable member of the Economists for Brexit group which, in opposition to the consensus view of economists, advocated the UK leaving the European Union.

Marisa is Associate Professor in Health Economics, a fellow of the Data Science Institute, member of the steering committees of the Nutrition and Food Network Strategy Group and the Vaccines strategy at Imperial College. She has expertise in leading multidisciplinary research in health economics on the economics and policy of healthcare innovation; impact of policies on organisational performance; the behavioural determinants of decision making including health risky behaviour.

Mark is PhD candidate in the University of Edinburgh’s School of Economics, where his research is centred on understanding the causes and effects of labour market inequalities. His current research focusses on understanding the origins of inequalities in human capital, and how early circumstances influence social and economic outcomes across life. Mark is also a Research Assistant at the Fraser of Allander Institute, where he works on a range of topics related to economic policy in Scotland,

Ian Mitchell is an economist and Senior Policy Fellow at the Center for Global Development where he leads work assessing the effectiveness of major economies’ development and climate finance policies. He is also an associate fellow with Chatham House’s Environment and Society programme. Until 2016 he was a senior civil servant and economist in the UK Government, most recently as deputy Chief Economist at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs where he led Strategy and