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The University of Sheffield

Anastasia Shesterinina

Dr Shesterinina is Director of the Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow leading the £1.2m Civil War Paths project (https://www.civilwarpaths.org/) and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield. Her field-intensive research examines internal dynamics of and international intervention in civil war, with a focus on mobilization, ex-combatant reintegration and civilian protection norms and practices.

University of Chicago

Robert Shimer

Robert Shimer is the department chair and the Alvin H. Baum Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. Prior to joining the Chicago faculty in 2003, he taught at Princeton University. He received his doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Shimer is a research associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow for IZA Institute of Labor Economics, a consultant at the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Chicago, an International Fellow at the Dale T.

Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Mehdi Shiva

Mehdi is an Economist at the GO Lab. His work involves enhancing the reliability of impact bond evaluations by promoting robust economic evaluation methods such as cost-effectiveness and decision analysis. Prior to joining the GO Lab team, he worked with medical researchers at the Ninewells Hospital, Dundee to analyse the cost-effectiveness of an innovative methods of diagnosing prostate cancer. Other experience includes directing a research programme of an entrepreneurial company, Happening

University of Cambridge

Emily Shuckburgh

Professor Emily Shuckburgh OBE is a world-leading climate scientist, and Director of Cambridge Zero, the University of Cambridge’s climate change initiative. She is also Professor of Environmental Data Science and Academic Director of the Institute of Computing for Climate Science. She leads the UK national research funding body’s (UKRI) Centre for Doctoral Training on the Application of AI to the study of Environmental Risks (AI4ER) and is a director of the Centre for Landscape Regeneration

IFS, Education Policy Institute

Luke Sibieta

Dr Luke Sibieta is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Education Policy Institute. He currently leads IFS’s ongoing work on education spending and resources. His research covers education spending, the teacher labour market and educational inequalities

University of York

Luigi Siciliani

Luigi Siciliani has specialised in the economics of hospitals and has published over 85 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include waiting times for non-emergency treatment, hospital quality competition, contracting theory applied to health care, pay for performance and coordination between health and social care. He is an Editor of the Journal of Health Economics, and member of the European Commission Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health.