Experts

Stefanie is a Research Associate in the Climate Resilience Practice (CRP) within WRI’s Center for Equitable Development. Stefanie co-develops technical guidance, information and tools to help national and subnational decision-makers plan for and implement climate adaptation and resilience.

Gabriel Ulyssea is an associate professor in the economics department at UCL and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He is also a Research Fellow at IZA and a Research Affiliate at CEPR. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago and his main research interests include economic development and labor economics. His current, non-covid related work focuses on informality, the labor market effects of labor regulation and trade and the role of firms in economic

Dr Andrew Urquhart is Associate Professor of Finance at the ICMA Centre, Henley Business School where he is Research Division Lead. Andrew has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles and his research has gathered more than 3,000 citations. He is currently associate editor at Economics Letters, the European Journal of Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis and Research in International Business and Finance.

Romesh Vaitilingam is an economics writer, communications consultant and Editor-in-Chief of the Economics Observatory (ECO). He is the author of several books and reports on economics, finance, business and public policy. His work also involves consultancy for the economic research and policy-making community, including the Centre for Economic Policy Research and VoxEU, the European Economic Association, the IGM Forum’s Economic Experts Panels and the Royal Economic Society.

Anna Valero is an ESRC Innovation Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE and an associate of the Grantham Research Institute, LSE. Her research focused on the drivers of productivity and innovation in firms and regions, and in particular the role of skills and universities in explaining differences in economic performance. Much of Anna’s work focuses on the topics of UK productivity and industrial strategy, and has included work for the LSE Growth Commission and a series of

Tommaso Valletti is a CEPR Fellow. He was the Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission (2016-2019). His research interests are in industrial economics, regulation, and competition economics. His current work looks at the drivers of attention on digital platforms.