Experts

Larissa Marioni is a Principal Economist at NIESR. She specialises in applied microeconomics and her research interests lie primarily in labour economics, productivity and public policy. Her current work investigates skills mismatches, regional inequalities, and AI in relation to productivity. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Southampton.

Josh is an economic adviser to Jonathan Haskel at the Bank of England. He previously held various positions at the Office for National Statistics, most recently as Head of Productivity statistics. Josh has written on a range of topics related to productivity, including environmentally-adjusted productivity measures, productivity of the non-profit sector, measurement of intangible investment at firm-level and in the national accounts, and on microdata analysis, and welfare measures beyond GDP.

Giulia Mascagni‘s research focuses on taxation, public finance, and evaluation of public policy in low-income countries. She is an economist and obtained her PhD in 2014 at the University of Sussex (Department of Economics). Giulia is the Research Director at ICTD. She is a Research Fellow in the Governance Cluster at the Institute of Development Studies (UK), as well as Research Associate at the Institute of Fiscal Studies (UK) and Associate Fellow at Johns Hopkins University SAIS (Italy).

Jesse is an applied micro-economist working on topics in public, labour and health economics. His previous work considers the effectiveness of policy interventions that target vulnerable populations. This includes a large randomised field study of a domestic violence intervention. He also has work examining the effect that social environment and neighbourhood infrastructure have on individual decision making in the context of smoking, marriage, and raising children.

Karl Matikonis is a lecturer at Queen’s Management School. His PhD and subsequent research focus on taxation, including windfall taxes and domestic and non-domestic property taxation. It also extends to how policy decisions impact businesses and in particular small and medium sized enterprises.

Philip McCann is a researcher with the ESRC Rebuilding Macroeconomics programme, the ESRC-funded UK in a Changing Europe initiative, and is Co-Director and Principal Investigator with ESRC Productivity Insights Network programme.