Experts

Carlos Vargas-Silva is Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) and Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the interaction of migration with labour markets and public services. He was Principal Investigator and Consortium Leader for the Horizon 2020 REMINDER project, which explored, among other topics, issues related to the impacts of migrant inflows on access to public services, including the National Health Service, and health outcomes.

Andrés Velasco is Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2017-19 he was a member of the G20 Eminent Persons Group. During 2015-16 he co-chaired the Global Panel on the Future of the Multilateral Lending Institutions. In 2013-16 he was a member of the Global Oceans Commission. Mr. Velasco ran for the presidency of Chile in the June 2013 primaries. He also was the Minister of Finance of Chile between March 2006

Tony Venables is a Professor of Economics at Alliance Manchester Business School. He has published extensively in the areas of international and spatial economics, including work on trade and competition, economic integration, multinational firms, economic geography, and regional economics. A fellow of the British Academy and the Econometric Society, he has also worked for the UK government and the World Bank. He is the former research director at The Productivity Institute.

Guglielmo’s main research interests are in the economics of education and training. He is particularly interested in post-16 education choices in England and their effect on education progression and labour market outcomes. In the past he has been involved in projects looking at young people’s access to apprenticeships and their impact on earnings. He is also interested in studying the determinants of firms’ investment in workforce training and apprenticeships.

Maria is a PhD candidate in Economics at the London School of Economics. Her research focuses on labour and pubilc economics. She is particularly interested in intergenerational mobility, and how this is affected by the way individuals make choices regarding their occupations. Maria also works on migration and, more recently, on how the crisis has affected self-employed workers.

Elena Verdolini is Professor of Political Economy at the Law Department, University of Brescia and Head of the Sustainable Innovation Unit at the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change. She is the PI of the 2D4D ERC project and Lead Author of the 6th Assessment Report of the IPCC, WGIII. She is an applied economist focusing on innovation dynamics and the economic and distributional impacts of environmental and energy policies.