Experts

Bart van Ark is Professor of Productivity at Alliance Manchester Business School and Principal Investigator of The Productivity Institute, an ESRC-funded research organisation exploring what productivity means for business, for workers and for communities – how it is measured and how it contributes to increased living standards and well-being. He is an internationally acclaimed economist in the field of international comparative productivity measurement and analysis, innovation and technology, and

Rick van der Ploeg expertise is macroeconomics, international economics and public economics, and his main interests are climate change and natural resources. He is a research fellow of CEPR and CESifo. He is a former Member of Parliament and State Secretary in the Netherlands and was member and vice chair of the Unesco World Heritage Committee. He has done advisory work for the IMF, the World Bank, the AfDB, the ADB, the OECD and the EU and has been on supervisory board in industry, banking and

Marjon is a Professor of Health Economics at the University of Aberdeen.  Her research spans across health and behavioural economics.  Her main research interest is in time and risk preferences and health. Current research focuses on risk preferences in physicians, robustness of time preference measurement and developing health behaviour interventions that draw on the concept of time preference.

Neeltje van Horen is research advisor at the Bank of England, professor of financial economics at the University of Amsterdam and CEPR research fellow. Her research focuses on the links between the financial sector and the real economy. This includes the impact of major economic shocks on companies and households, the effects of central bank policies on the behavior of banks, the link between banks and governments and the role of global banks in corporate lending and shock transmission.

John Van Reenen is Ronald Coase School Professor at the London School of Economics and the Gordon Billard Professor at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (jointly in the MIT Economics Department and Sloan Management School). He has published over a hundred papers on many areas in economics with a particular focus on firm performance and the causes and consequences of innovation.

Enrico is a lecturer at the Department of Economics of the University of Sheffield. His research focuses on issues related to international economics, regional economics, firms’ productivity and the economics of innovation. He collaborates with NIESR and the UK ERC, and prior to joining the University of Sheffield he has worked as a fellow in economic geography at the London School of Economics.