Experts

Thomas Peeters is an associate professor at the Erasmus School of Economics, where he runs the Strategy Economics Research Group and the Erasmus Center for Applied Sports Economics (ECASE). He is a research fellow of the Tinbergen Institute and a member of the Erasmus Research Institute in Management (ERIM). He studies questions on the intersection of strategy economics, industrial organization, and sports economics. He obtained a PhD in applied economics at the University of Antwerp.

Martin Peitz is professor of economics at the University of Mannheim and a director of the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation – MaCCI. Together with Paul Belleflamme he wrote the leading graduate textbook “Industrial Organization: Markets and Strategies,” and the forthcoming book “The Economics of Platforms: Concepts and Strategy”. He has been advising a number of competition authorities, sector regulators, and government agencies in Europe and abroad.

Cristina Peñasco is a Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies and the current Director of the MPhil in Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. She is also a Fellow at Queens’ College, at the Centre for the Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG) and an associate researcher of the Bennett Institute. With a PhD in Economics, her research lines bring together innovation policy and energy economics with a focus on the policy instruments

Andrew Perchard is Honorary Research Professor at Otago Business School, University of Otago, New Zealand. His areas of expertise include business-government relations, deindustrialization, energy policy, and public ownership and privatisation. A former Head of Energy Supply Policy at the Scottish Government, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Royal Society of Arts.

Giovanni Peri is Professor of Economics and Director of the Global Migration Center at UC Davis. His research analyzes the economic determinants and consequences of international migrations with focus on labor markets and local economies. He has published in leading Academic Journals such as The American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies and the Journal of European Economic Association. The Economist, the BBC, the New York Times and NPR news have often featured his research.

Sarah Perret works as an economist and deputy head of unit at OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. Her role involves assessing countries’ tax systems and advising them on tax reform. She has also been leading the work on wealth and inheritance taxation at the OECD and is the author of a number of studies on taxation, inequality and inclusive growth.