Experts

Dr Gregory-Smith’s primary research interests concern the executive labour market and related issues associated with wages, gender, corporate governance, shareholder voting and productivity. He has published articles on the economics of sport (particularly cricket) trying to understand how strategic decisions are made. At Sheffield, he teaches Microeconomics and Industrial Organisation to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Rachel is an applied microeconomist with a focus on public policy. Her research considers the impacts of government policies on the behaviours of firms, workers, consumers and the functioning of markets. She has published widely on the impacts of policy on nutrition, innovation, and productivity. She is interested in improving the ways that economists communicate with the wider public, and increasing diversity of all kinds in the economics profession.

Jan Grobovšek is a Lecturer at the School of Economics at the University of Edinburgh. He holds a PhD from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His area of expertise is economic growth and development. He has written research articles on how development is affected by agricultural productivity, structural transformation, managerial delegation in firms, trade in intermediate inputs, and the functioning of labor markets.

Irem Güçeri is an Associate Professor at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and Governing Body Fellow of St Antony’s College. Irem is also an International Research Fellow of the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, and an affiliate of the CESifo Network in Public Economics. In her research, Irem studies the ways in which government policies can promote growth and productivity, as well as issues surrounding efficient policymaking in the field of taxation. To

Benno is a co-founder and director of Salient Behavioural Consultants where he combines robust behavioural science frameworks with years of industry expertise. He is also a PhD Student at the LSE where he focuses on risk-taking in high stakes contexts. Special interests include time and domain specific risk-tolerance fluctuations as well as real-world applications in the context of background risk and in high-stake industries such as professional trading and aviation.

Danielle Guizzo is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Bristol (UK). Her research expertise is on History of Economics, Political Economy and Economics Education. She currently works on topics related to the history of economic expertise, the sociology of the economics discipline, and educational policy and economics education, focusing on diversity and decolonisation. She is also a co-founder and steering group member of D-Econ, and an affiliate researcher at Autonomy.