Experts

Jesús is an economist from the Central University of Venezuela, MSc. in Economics from University of Warwick and MSc. in Public Policy from IESA. He currently works as research assistant at the Wales Fiscal Analysis of the Wales Governance Centre, Cardiff University. His main interests are public economics, inequality and labour economics. Prior to work in the UK, Jesús hold different research and senior adviser roles in taxation departments and budget agencies at local governments in Venezuela.

Holding a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge, Dominic Rohner is a Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC) of the University of Lausanne. He is a Research Fellow of CEPR, CESifo, OxCarre and HiCN, Associate Editor at the Economic Journal and leader of the CEPR Research and Policy Network (RPN) on Preventing Conflict. He has published articles in various international journals, including AER, Econometrica, JPE, QJE, ReStud.

Stephen Roper is Professor of Enterprise at Warwick Business School, Director of the Enterprise Research Centre (www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk) and Co-Director of the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise. His research interests include innovation and innovation policy, SME growth and policy. Stephen regularly acts as an expert advisor for OECD and the World Bank on issues related to small business development and innovation policy including projects in Austria, Abu Dhabi, Mexico, Israel,

Rebecca Rose is a PhD candidate in Economics at the London School of Economics. Her expertise is occupational choice and racial discrimination in labour markets.

Joan R Rosés is head of Department of Economic History at LSE and CEPR research fellow. He is editor of the European Review of Economic History. He has published widely in different aspects of historical economic geography and long-run growth including regional inequality, land markets, industrialization, technological change, labour markets and housing. Recently, he has investigated the distributional consequences of the Spanish Flu.

Gennaro is a PhD student at the University of Strathclyde. His research area is economics of education, currently focusing on how classroom characteristics in primary school (e.g. class size) affect school and post-school attainment. He also looks at parental preferences for secondary schools. Furthermore, his research interest reaches out to social capital, in particular its connection to organised crime.