Experts

Graham Brownlow is Senior Lecturer in Economics at QMS. He is also a Research Associate of the Queen’s University Centre for Economic History and an elected member of the RIA Social Science and Humanities Committee. Since 2012 he has been editor/co-editor of Irish Economic and Social History. In 2019 Graham was plenary lecturer for the Economic History Society annual conference. Apart from his research on economic and business history, Graham has published on contemporary topics such as

Alex is Professor of Quantitative Social Science at UCL’s Social Research Institute. He is a Research Fellow at IZA, NIESR and Rutgers and is Editor-in-Chief at Industrial Relations Berkeley. His research focuses on labour economics, employment relations and programme evaluation.

Jim Buchan has worked as a policymaker, policy analyst, and consultant on health workforce and health systems issues in Europe, Asia and the Pacific. His background includes periods working for: the National Health Service in Scotland, the Royal College of Nursing, Health Workforce Australia, and the European Region of the World Health Organization (WHO). He is also Editor in Chief of the Human Resources for Health journal.

Greta Bull is the CEO of CGAP and a Director at the World Bank. Ms. Bull has 20 years’ experience in development finance, primarily focused on SME finance, microfinance and digital financial services. She has worked with financial services providers and policy makers in Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Her clients have included banks, microfinance institutions, mobile network operators, and fintechs. Before joining CGAP, she was a manager at the IFC.

Philip Bunn is a Senior Technical Advisor at the Bank of England where he has worked since 2001. He currently works in the Structural Economics Division in the Monetary Analysis area of the Bank on a mix of policy and research work. He is the Programme Director of the Decision Maker Panel survey.  He holds a BSc and MSc in economics from the University of Warwick.

Simon Burgess is a Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol. Simon is a labour economist. He completed his PhD in Oxford in 1987 with Steve Nickell. His current research interests are in the economics of education, including teacher effectiveness, pupil effort, school admissions, and market-based education reforms (such as school performance tables, school accountability, choice and competition). He also works on ethnic segregation in schools, and the educational performance of minority