Experts

Asad Islam is the director of the Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability (CDES) and a professor of economics at Monash University. His recent research focuses on social networks, education and health, gender, and technology adoption in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Uganda, Tanzania, and Cambodia. He is currently collaborating with leading NGOs, economists, and public health researchers to address a number of emerging challenges on covid19 issues.

My name is Yana Iwanskyj. I am a 3rd year economics student at the University of Bristol, and I am particularly interested in the economics of climate change, emerging markets and health economics.

Ian J. Bateman is Director of the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP) at the University of Exeter, UK. Ian is a Member of the Natural Capital Committee and the Board of the UK Joint Nature Conservation Committee. His main research interests revolve around the issue of ensuring sustainable wellbeing through the integration of natural and physical science with economics and by working with business and policy makers.

Danielle Jackson is a Senior Consultant at Metro Dynamics where she works across both the policy and analytical functions of the company. Her work covers a wide range of economic and social policy areas with interests in inclusive growth, devolution and pan-regional collaboration. Danielle enjoys working closely with places around the UK to better understand the opportunities and challenges in their economies and communities, in order to shape narratives and develop strategy and policy.

Ben Jackson’s research focuses on the role of ideas in political and policy debates in the twentieth century, chiefly in the UK. He has worked on the political thought of socialism and liberalism in Britain; the political and economic ideas of the neo-liberal right; and on the history and politics of Scottish nationalism. He recently published The Case for Scottish Independence: A History of Nationalist Political Thought in Modern Scotland (2020).

Sanjay Jain is Senior Fellow in the Department of Economics at Oxford. His research interests are in development economics, political economy, and applied microeconomic theory. He has previously served on the Economics faculty at Cambridge University, the University of Virginia, the George Washington University, as a lecturer at Princeton University, and as a frequent consultant to the World Bank.