Experts

James Fransham is data correspondent for The Economist Newspaper in London. As well as writing for the newspaper’s Graphic Detail section he is also a regular contributor to the newspaper’s Britain section—he writes a weekly “data dispatch” for its newsletter, Blighty. He has produced original quantitative stories for many of the newspaper’s sections and been shortlisted for several journalistic awards. He joined The Economist as a researcher in 2009 and in 2014 was made the

I have 22 publications in peer-reviewed journals on aspects of finance, economics and health. I have developed collaborative interdisciplinary research and have been successful in nine grant proposals. Current research projects include Work disability and the legacy of the Northern Irish Troubles ; Cost effectiveness of stratified medicine approaches to colorectal cancer and Time discounting as a mediator of the relationship between financial stress and health.

Eric French is the Montague Burton Professor of Industrial Relations and Labour Economics at the University of Cambridge, Co-director, ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy, Institute for Fiscal Studies, and is a Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Centre for Economic Policy Research. French’s research interests include: household behavior over the lifecycle; the impact of government and private pensions on savings and labor supply; the impact of health

Lukas Freund is a PhD candidate in Economics and Gates scholar at the University of Cambridge. His research interests lie in macro- and labour economics. Lukas’ recent work considers the impact of uncertainty on unemployment and inflation, as well as the interaction of household heterogeneity and fiscal policy. He is also a Visiting Academic at the Bank of England.

Born in Basel, Switzerland in 1941. 1970-77 Full Professor at University Constance and 1977-2012 University Zurich. 2010-13 Distinguished Professor at University Warwick. 2012-15 Senior Professor at Zeppelin University. Since 2015 Permanent Visiting Professor at University Basel. 1990-91 Visiting Research Professor at University Chicago. Honorary Doctorates from 5 European Universities in 5 countries. Author of 30 books (economics of environment, politics, behaviour, happiness, awards and arts).

Silke Fricke is a Speech and Language Therapist and Senior Lecturer in the Division of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on understanding speech, language, and literacy development and difficulties in monolingual and multilingual children as well as the interrelationships between these skills, and the evaluation of early support and intervention approaches for children’s speech, language and literacy development.