Experts

Gianluca Benigno is Assistant Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at LSE. He has published on exchange rate economics, international monetary policy cooperation, monetary and fiscal policy and international capital flows. He has been a consultant at the IMF, IADB, senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and an economist at the Bank of England.

Kristoffer Berg is a Research Fellow in Economics at the Centre for Business Taxation and Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. His research combines theory and data to study taxation of workers, shareholders, firms, and wealth. Kristoffer holds a Master’s in Economics from the University of Oslo and an MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy from the London School of Economics. He has previously worked for the Norwegian Ministry of Finance and interned with the International Monetary Fund.

Erik Berglof has published widely in top journals on economic and political transition, corporate governance, financial development and EU reform. He was a member of the Secretariat for the G20 Eminent Persons Group on global financial governance. Currently, he is a member of the EU High-Level Group of Wise Persons on the European development finance architecture, He is also a Brookings Non-Resident Fellow and Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Tim Besley is School Professor of Economics and Political Science, W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics at LSE.  His main research interests are in development economics, public economics, and political economy, focusing on economic policy formation in developed and emerging market economies. He serves on the National Infrastructure Commission and on the panel of the IFS-led Deaton Review on Inequalities, and is President-elect of the Royal Economic Society.

Applied micro research in health, gender and political economy. Health: dynamic benefits of early interventions (clean water, antibiotics, postnatal care, maternal depression, war), universal health coverage and judicial accountability for the right to health. Gender: gender pay gap, women’s labour force participation, fertility, abortion, maternal mortality, domestic violence, property rights, women’s political participation. Political economy: representation of women and minorities.

Arnab is Professor and Head of Economics at Heriot-Watt University and Research Lead (Regional Modelling and Microsimulation) at NIESR. He started his career as a central banker and moved into academia in 2001. His research focuses on econometrics and statistics, particularly in spatial and network Big Data contexts, with applications in economics and elsewhere. His applied work has generated active policy debate and societal impact in several areas, not least on regional and sectoral disparities,